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A comma butterfly on a wooden table in evening light. Its wings are orange with brown spots and stripes and elaborately shaped rear edges.
A bleak wintry garden. In the foreground, the blurred black silhouette of an insect on the window.
Graeme Swanson: The memeification of lecterns was beginning to annoy me anyway. Some Bloke in a Hat: I saw one in my garden about an hour ago. Exciting stuff.
Tracksuited Kevin Keegan leaning out of a fairly modest looking car to give a thumbs up.
Beastie Boys in the nineteen eighties, looking like absolute herberts
A can of beer called Moose and Pooch. The illustrated label shows the moose driving Starsky and Hutch’s Ford Gran Torino with its antlers sticking out of both side windows. In the passenger seat is a small dog.
The large Irish gentleman confirms that it was he who called Marwood a ponce, and he’s calling Withnail one too.
Page from the Oxfam Shop website showing a dull metal cube with some raised lettering and illustrations
Starship Troopers – BUGS! BUGS!
Sam Neill in a snowy landscape wearing a rather fabulous outfit involving shimmery fabrics, plenty of feathers and knee high suede boots.
Cover of a parody Ladybird book called ‘Everything I don't like is WOKE’ – A BOOK FOR BASIC DICKHEADS
On a London canal, an orange ship’s lifeboat converted to residential use, then further modified with colourfully painted plywood shields and a dragon figurehead and tail.
Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus in The Matrix saying “But we know that it was us that scorched the sky.”
Dan Hedaya looking disapprovingly over his glasses
The cast of Channel 4’s PhoneShop
Sunny day view from a low bridge, along a calm river with dense woodland on either side.
An extremely pale grey rectangle
A black rectangle
Biggie looking much happier with his crown
Biggie Smalls wearing a gold crown and his usual unimpressed expression
Steve, you've earned 4 months of The Telegraph free. Great.
Harry Dean Stanton under falling water in Alien
Gaff interrupts Deckard’s noodle dinner in Blade Runner
Three pairs of rectilinear acetate framed spectacles, all the same design but slightly different materials: black, dark brown and mid brown.
A huge naan bread cut into many pieces so it fits on a plate and doesn’t take up the whole table.
A black rectangle
An extremely pale grey rectangle
He's dressed for Glasto ninety six, she's styled for Sherman Oaks Galleria ten years earlier.
Low view of a raised stone causeway leading into woodland. It bears the remains of Victorian engineering, including some narrow gauge tracks. It's the same picture everybody takes here.
Stop Making Sense
GET CARTER
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
A jolly red drink can bearing stylised Korean text and incongruously serious looking black octagonal health warnings in Spanish.
The yellow thumbs up emoji with the word ‘Seen’ under it for some reason
Chap reporting live from Downing Street in a strangely colourless jacket of peculiar cut and assembly.
Song Kang-ho in Park Chan-wook’s ‘Thirst’ (2009)
Your correspondent, wearing a pink shirt, massive sage green shorts and bottle green suede Pumas with yellow laces, reflected in the dirty curved chrome flap of a turquoise Wesco Pushboy bin. The debossed word PUSH, arranged vertically, runs the length of his body.
Skinny middle aged white man in a powered wheelchair. Strapped to the back of the seat are a printer and a large oscillating fan.
Green grassy field, line of trees, blue sky full of wispy clouds. Electricity pylon with service cradle silhouetted in the middle, cables leading off to either side.
A nice poached egg, dropped on the floor
Screengrab from the BBC series Shetland. A bearded man in a sturdy jumper clutches his forehead with one hand and gives a weary thumbs up with the other.
Side view of a Daytona yellow Corvette Stingray
Grotty boxy corrugated steel thing, leaning back, surrounded by sharp edged steel fencing and those rotating blade climbing prevention devices.
A cable made by a company whose name is spelled B U D I
A towering electricity pylon framed by trees. Hanging from the cables is a skeletal cradle for engineers.
David Hockney in a teal bobble hat and brown jacket sitting on the rear bumper of a V W Beetle, smiling just a little bit.
A strip of colourful swirls at the side of a computer screen where there should be plain black.
Big square sign on the side of a boat called The Chilly Kitten, featuring an unimpressed looking looking kitten in a balaclava
A sun-dappled white wall bearing an old school graffiti rendering of a purple ghetto blaster
Anime chap Lupin. He has short dark hair with long sidies and is wearing glasses.
A Marmite splat on a white plate that looks like a little fluttering homunculus
White bespectacled middle aged guy who would benefit from a haircut and shave, wearing some sort of cadet cap. Text reads: Hello! I live on a barge! I play keyboards in a Phil Collins-era Genesis tribute band called The Abacab Experience!
Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus in The Matrix saying “But we know that it was us that scorched the sky.”
A big lump of apple cake, a sensible black coffee and a big frothy coffee.
A red sign with white graphics showing a car driving off a river bank or jetty into deep water, captioned ‘How we learn’.
Alan Bennett
The rear end of a tasty powerchair with one wheel off, showing an over-engineered suspension arm and the socket that connects to the hub motor.
The big dart plane from the previous post, plus it’s on some kind of boat hull platform, plus there may be a launch rocket between the plane and the platform.
The inner waistband of a pair of Dickies shorts, bearing the printed words LOOSE FIT