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Old stuff, piles of dirt etc

Heads of dwarf sunflowers
Pink and white petunias BUSTING OUT ALL OVER
An empty pint glass with a red & white candy striped straw in it, stood on a couple of bricks lying flat, outside with strong sun
The big scary rabbit from the animated Watership Down, LURCHING at us
Lower down in the sky, the sun just above a bungalow roof and chimney, tasty scumbles of cloud above that
Looking east towards sunset, the background sky is an uneven soft grey-to-white like smudged pastels, and in front of that are darker, crumbly strips of cloud in long narrow blocks
A compact disc seen close up, revealing a hole in the shiny layer about 5mm across (the disc is Headcoatitude by Thee Headcoats)
CD: 'Hyaena' by Siouxsie and the Banshees, 1984
A photograph of Joe Pera
Two soft clumps of cloud against a pale blue sky, glowing with low evening sunlight, the sort of thing flying babies in baroque oil paintings would hang about on
The robot/cooker on wheels from the first Wallace & Grommet film "A Grand Day Out", doing the hands on hips pose
Barrie Rutter as Oakes, the prisoner who escapes in Porridge, the film (1979)
The conductor John Wilson. He's a white fella in his 40s (I'm guessing?) with stubble, short hair, glasses and a friendly demeanor
Soft, cool grey clouds of various shades over a very pale blue sky
Summer evening sky over trees and bungalows. Soft grey and pink blob clouds, the moon (not quite full) and one large cloud looking like a streamlined spacecraft or rocket
A long, very flat cloud hovering over trees and bungalows
A black and white photo of a young Ray Brooks, the guy who did the narration on Mr Ben
Post by The Spaceshipper, with design and photo of the USS Sulaco from Aliens (1986) which looks like a long gun with knives sticking out the front
A building site. They're preparing the ground for pipes, drainage etc, and in the mid distance is a row of grey cylinders or sections of pipe, roughly in the same proportions as potato croquettes but obviously much bigger.
A jackdaw on the roof of a suburban semi, filmed from some distance away and through a dangly strip curtain. It's found a dead sparrow (or similar) and keeps picking it up, putting it down, wandering around the roof etc. The audio is probably off Radio 4
A 6ft tall wooden fence running alongside the pavement leading up to an alleyway in suburbia. The fence is thin vertical slats painted a purpley brown. Just beyond the fat end of the fence is a wall of trees, all green foliage
'Oga boss', a painting of a highly stylised human figure, made up of stretched and curved slabs and boxes of assorted colours. Similar in style to David Bomberg in his Vorticist period, but with a surrealist flavour: Max Ernst, De Chirico
Sculpture, two objects constructed out of brightly painted sheet materials, tall, boxy with fluid lines coming off them. Imagine the part of a playground slide that contains the steps/ladder, but gone through a psychedelicising process. Weird but playful
One of those plastic novelty windvane/windmills where a bloke in a cap winds the handle on a well (driven by a big yellow propellor), except the whole thing seems to prefer spinning on its axle whenever the wind blows hard enough to move anything
Powerful wind blowing the crown of a very tall poplar tree about
'Still In A Dream', the latest from music writer Simon Reynolds, covering the years 1984-1994. The cover is a blurry, abstract, pinky-orange-red image reminiscent of the cover to the My Bloody Valentine album 'Loveless'
Large hardback book, portrait format with dust cover: 'SPIRIT OF THE AGE'. The cover is white with eight pictures and eight experts representing different periods in British Architecture
A length of suburban pavement made of tarmac, with a not-that-old brick wall to the left and a scruffy grass verge to the right. There are eight distinct sections of tarmac in view, where it's been patched up, repaired etc
A Jersey Tiger moth, classic moth shape, about 3cm long, wings mostly black with dramatic white slashes looking like torn paper
A long thin arm extending out from the eastern end of Newton's Cove, Weymouth, with large buildings at various points. In the foreground are works being done to shore up the sea defences (probably)
A clump of long grass and wild flowers, including one big blousey pink cornflower, behind a row of benches looking out to sea
Screen shot from the musical film Sweet Charity staring Shirley MacLaine and Ricardo Montalban. It's the scene in Club Pompeii where all the well dressed clientele are posing together and asking who the mysterious woman is
A white front door in a tall, narrow brick wall which extends out from another, slightly taller brick wall which sticks out a couple of inches further into the street so there's a doubly staggered effect. Both are topped by a ridge of what looks like concrete paving slabs.
Big rough stack of wood, all thin strips lying at various degrees of horizontallness, held between four scaffolding uprights. On a sunny street in Old Portsmouth
B&W photo of character actor Kathleen Harrison
CD booklet: MIGHTY INSTRUMENTAL HITS R&B STYLE (1943-1963)
Photo of the back of an old Fisher Price toy called Tumble Tower. It's decorated with brightly covered, cutesy animals at different angles
Two guys watch a gigantic cloud of steam billowing out of a wall of an industrial building
Alan Garner, in black, pushes a black wheelbarrow through a big old yard next to a long farmhouse (I'm guessing) equivalent in size to 4 or 5 terraced houses. There are piles of rubble - bricks, stone, maybe concrete - probably from a demolition
Sylvia Anderson driving a flash motor
CD: 'Constellations' by Ensemble Ouranos. Five young french wind instrumentalists dressed in simple black tops and trousers prance about against a white background
CD of 'The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall' (1984)
Night time. A small square wooden table and on it two glass vases, one spherical the other tall and curved, both filled with tap water and glowing with white light from torches beaming down into them through plastic storage box lids
Screen grab from a BBC archive snippet about a collie that helps out a roofer, going up ladders and fetching tools etc. It's a woman in a headscarf, very smiley and cheerful, clasping four boxes of eggs all stacked up one on top of the other
A thermometer out in the garden, hanging in shade on a chunky wooden support and surrounded by clematis. It shows 38 degrees C, or 100 F
Two views of a sculpture by Ipousteguy, where a human figure passes through a louvred door
Black and white photo of 'Ecbatane' (1965) a sculpture by french artist Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy.
Book: IPOUSTEGUY, cover shows back of a sculpture of a human figure, with layers stripped like an anatomical model, merging with a vertical slab
The road which runs north-south down to Bath Spa railway station. Most of it is closed off for infrastructure works. This is a photo looking through the wire mesh barrier at a quite neat pile of wire mesh barrier sections, with what I think is one of those yellow plastic covers that they put over holes in the ground for pedestrians to walk over, sat on the top at one end,van orange traffic cone and a sand bag. The whole thing is suggestive of a bed
Roadworks next to the Star & Dove pub in Totterdown, Bristol (it's near Victoria Park). The photo is taken from one one of a long excavation which is surrounded by white plastic barriers, and there's a wire mesh barrier coming in at an angle from our right. It's about 8pm on a summer evening and there's a drowsy warmth in the air
Flyer for three bands who played at the Fox & Newt in Burley, Leeds on 9th December, 2015 for ONLY THREE QUID! The bands were Los Pecadores (surf/punk), Amplifighters (hardcore/metal) and Every Weapon (No's band, instrumental/rock). The picture on the flyer is a black & white collage with a man and a woman from the cover of an old knitting pattern, both wearing diamond patterned v-neck jumpers. The bloke's head has been completely replaced by a set of smoke grenade launchers off an old tank, and so has the woman's face. These smoke grenade things are like pairs of short metal tubes set at different angles. There's also a pointy stack of metal shards in the background and another knitwear model fella with some sort of tank accessory for a head
One of those 60s/70s recipe cards. This is number 13 from the Slimmers Set, and depicts HAM IN ASPIC. It's a load of chopped ham (possibly even Spam, that's what it looks like) set into a cylinder of clear aspic jelly (similar in size and proportions to a pork pie). There's a smooth 'coin' of ham with regular bumps round the edge at the top of the column, in the centre, and around that a ring of six equally spaces stuffed olive slices, and finally a complete ring of bright green peas. The whole thing sits on a carpet of golden, crumbled up aspic jelly in a shallow dish.
Another engraving: Comerford's Dust Collector, vertical section
An engraving of a flour purifier from the book Modern Flour Milling by William R Voller, 1889. It's a big long thing stood on 5 square columns with bins in, and a funnel on the top at one end
Extract from the book: "But the point about American low grade flours is yet unexplained. Our friends over there are wonderful business men, and they have found out that John Bull takes more kindly to their low grade brands when they are nicely dressed and branded with a pretty name. This is important because the American working man is far too shrewd to consume the poorest grades of flour; there is consequently but one course, and that is to send them to England for use in producing cheap and very poor looking bread for our English workpeople."
CD: the album '08' by Slippers
Tall outdoor sculpture by Shigeo Fukuda. A kind of tree with a cylindrical trunk in vertical stripes of primary colours, with horizontal beams coming out in all directions from the top half, each with a white object on the end, some recognisable (a tooth, a pumpkin) others more abstract (a grid of spheres, a star shape etc). It looks to be on the grounds of a factory with chimneys or flues in the same primary colours
Book: 'stereo-form by shigeo fukuda'
CD: new release from La Sécurité - 'Bingo'
A cropped screenshot from Jan Svankmajer's film version of Alice in Wonderland. In this scene a water rat has set up on top of Alice's head and is preparing to cook a stew in a pot that is about to have a fire lit under it using snippings of Alice's hair.