Marvin. (Paranoid Android)

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Sometimes photography, Sometimes IT. Sometimes 'flying'. Definitely not going to Trump-ton anytime soon! In the deepest, darkest shire. "Making it up? Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to make anything up"

A flying seagull, almost in silhouette against a bright summer sky with clouds and patches of blue between
A tilt/shift effect applied to a photo of a small rubber dinghy waiting to pick up a bungy jumper dangling above the river. The effect blurs the outside of the photo, leaving the boat and people in focus, resembling a model, or toy photograph
A sign in a shop window that says "We are Charlie Kirk xx" It is stuck to the inside of a window with a cream coloured frame. A plastic Union Flag can be seen above it.
A group of female Morris Dancers, all dressed in black, with rather large sticks!
View of the terrace at the museum in bewdley. Waiting for breakfast. Sun is shining under a blue sky. Trees can be seem over the wall
A Mallard landing on a canal, it's wings outstretched and its feet on the surface of the water as if it was standing on it. The surface of the water is rippled and reflecting the green of the trees and bushes on the opposite side of the canal
A wide view of the estuary at Barmouth in Wales with several boats in the water. There is a beach in the foreground and mountains on the far side of the water. The old railway bridge can be seen crossing the water in the distance. There is a light blue sky with a few fluffy clouds.
A complete dandelion seed head (or clock) in the sunshine. A perfect circle of white seeds against a background of green leaves
BBC's 'house rules': Amazon in the UK paid no Corporation tax from 2020-24 (thanks to a Rishi deal), while my (now closed) small business with a turnover < £60K paid Corporation tax at the standard rate. The rich, and the big corporations need to pay *their* fair share
A single light pink coloured poppy with a small fly sitting on its petals. There's a crimson cross in the centre of the poppy, background is a lot of out of focus weeds!
A very close up photo of a housefly's head. One large eye on each side of it's head, a number of short hairs on its head between them. Its body and legs are out of focus . The background is a light green
A cat, lying rather grumpily at the top of some stairs, peering down the stairs. A pale blue carpet covering the stairs
A predominantly brown butterfly with lighter tips around the edges of its wings. 2 darker spots on its 2 rear wings and one darker spot on each of its front wings. it is sitting on a green leaf with its wings outstretched. Background is a few out of focus leaves with the edge of an out of focus daisy seen in the top left corner of the image.
A green Speckled Bush Cricket sitting on the white petals of an Ox Eye Daisy. About 10mm long its body covered in tiny speckles and its long antennae reaching the sides of the photo
A jackdaw with several pieces of hedgehog food in its beak staring at the wildlife camera. Background is small stones with a small, square dish with some hedgehog food still remaining.
A yellow water lily with it's flower sticking up from the leaves with an approaching bee already carrying a large amount of pollen
A single orange and yellow Marigold flower with a couple of drops of rain on the petals. Background is blurred green leaves and blurred blue Alyssum flowers
Boris Johnson being ignored at a NATO meeting with the words: Today I am mostly being called Billy No Mates
A photo of the algae filled reflecting pool in Washington DC, from https://www.asppoolco.com/blog/2026/may/what-the-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-renova/ With the addition of Shrek, feeling at home in the 'swamp'
A mockup of a baby in a babygro with Donald Trumps head and a long red tie, lying on it's back, under the UFC thing on the whitehouse lawn. There's a bar of gold, a wad of money and a Nobel Peace medal hanging from the baby gym instead of brighlty colored toys
A torn and tattered Union flag forlornly attached to a telephone pole. In the background is a HV electric pole with wires
A line of standing stones, part of the Avebury stone circle, 5 large stones nearly in a line standing on short grass with a raised 'structure behind, several stones can be seen in the distance heading off to the right of the picture. Green trees can be seen behind them and a blue but somewhat cloudy sky above
A fly-tipped upright fridge freezer on the footpath at the side of a road next to a wall and lamp post, some buildings visible at the far end of the wall. A few apes have been added to the scene touching it and leaping in the air holding bones as in the opening scenes of 2001 :A Space Odyssey
The radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, the dish is pointing upwards towards a rather cloudy sky with patches of blue. A complicated arrangement of struts and girders that enables it to be 'steered' to point anywhere in the sky can be seen underneath. Some trees behind, and grass with a couple of paths in the foreground
A picture of a telegraph pole at the side of a country road. There's a cheap Union Flag that has been tied to the top which is now all wrapped around the telephone wires. Next to it is a power pole which would have been kind of fatal to the people had they tried to hand it from there
A rather grumpy cat lying on a cat bed, his 2 pront paws draped over the edge, wondering just why it's so warm.
A small plant with small orange/red flowers with dark centres with yellow tips to their stamen. Background of green leaves and soil with cracks.
An image of Nigel Farage with a tricorn hat and cigarette in his mouth holding a pint of beer in front of a wild sea with a castle or prison on top of cllffs
A large cat sits atop a laptop keyboard. His little face is trying to say 'Please don't ignore me' Meanwhile the edit I was half way through is completely trashed!
A acrobatic squirrel hanging upside down from a bird feeder shaped like a small picnic bench to eat lots of food from a bird feeder hanging underneath it. Background is a brick wall
A tiny flower with 5 pink and white petals and a yellow centre peeking out between lots of much larger brown dried leaves at the side of a drive
Some very small purple and yellow flowers with small ivy shaped leaves against a stone wall. The flowers appear to 2 petals at the top, and 3 petals on the bottom, separated by 2 yellow and white centres.
The cover from a DVD of 'Fireball XL5, the complete series' With Elon Musk's head superimposed on 'Steve Zodiac' and Trumps face superimposed on 'Doctor Venus'
A 2 x 12 image of 12 MPs or ex- MPs replicated side by side, the only difference between to 2 is the slightly different colour surrounding them, and the political party logo in the bottom left. They are all people who have abandoned the Conservative Party after trashing the country for 14 years and have jumped ship to Reform UK Ltd attempting to rebrand themselves as the saviours of the country (And to try to resurrect their careers)
A cartoon image of someone looking not unlike Nigel Farage, sitting dejected in a pub dressed in a chicken costume, pint in one had, cigarette in the other
A newly prepared field for potatoes. Lots of parallel lines of raised brown soil disappearing into the distance, converging into the distance. Green fields with trees, bushes and one or two light coloured buildings at the end of the field under a blue, somewhat cloud filled Spring sky.
A 2 x 12 image of 12 MPs or ex- MPs replicated side by side, the only difference between to 2 is the slightly different colour surrounding them, and the political party logo in the bottom left. They are all people who have abandoned the Conservative Party after trashing the country for 14 years and have jumped ship to Reform UK Ltd attempting to rebrand themselves as the saviours of the country (And to try to resurrect their careers)
An nadir aerial view of Hopton Castle from a drone, stitched together from 50-odd photos on the left. On the right is a 'height map' showing the underlying features of the surrounding area.
A twitter post from Nigel Farage, dated 08/05/2025: We have a pro-British American President in the White House Striking our own deal with America is another enefit of Brexit.
A load of smiling Tories wearing Tory Rosettes being yelled at by a man shouting "I'm never voting Tory again!" Underneath is a happy smiling man saying 'Yay! Reform!" with the same set of people, now all Ex-Tories, wearing reform rosettes.
2 apple turnovers in a box. they would fit, each one in apposite corners, being right angle triangle in shape, but one has been put in along one side of the box and the other has been squashed into another side of the box, breaking an end off. there is a large gap on the other side of the box
The face of a cat peering over the fluffy edge of a cat bed. Only his eyes and ears are visible, as if he's plotting something
Screen shot of the results of a quiz at AmIATechBro.com stating that my result was that I'm 0% a Tech Bro
The recently repainted St Mary's lighthouse viewed from the causeway at low tide against a quite cloudy sky.
The band 'The Saw Doctors' on stage blue lights above with wisps of theatrical smoke. The front of the standing crowd can be seen in front of the stage
A Capybara on a motorcycle leaping over a fence in a scene from the file 'The Great Escape' A sign added to the fence says 'MOD PROPERTY, KEEP OUT'
Advert for a twin pack of 'spam' featuring a picture of a tin of spam with the price below. On sale for £3.95 (Was £3.85)!
A line of beach huts all with brightly painted fronts. Each door is painted a different, more pastel colour. A paved promenade in front, with sand covering it in places. A light blue sky with wispy clouds above the scene
A view of the ruins of Tynemouth Priory and Castle in the early morning, taken from St Mary's Island up the coast. The ruins sit on a cliff hidden slightly by the lower cliffs of Cullercoats Bay, the land across the far side of the River Tyne can be seen beyond the ruins. The early morning sky is a somewhat orange-yellow colour, the sea in the foreground is flat calm.
An old bridge across a canal in quite bright sunlight The canal veers right under the bridge, the towpath following alongside it. A lone fisherman sitting peacefully on the edge of the canal in the distance A canal boat is moored on the opposite side next to the bridge, trees overhang the canal in the distance, still leafless except one.
A screen shot of a page from collegegreengroup.com from late 2015 where it states that the ECHR has halted only 13 deportations SINCE 1980
A take off of a black and white image from the film 'Dr Strangelove' Trump riding a missile like a cowboy away from a location pin with the words 'epstein files' beside it
A lake with an incredibly calm surface, trees around the edge drawing the eye to the mountains of the Southern Alps in the distance, snow lingering on their sides and peaks. The blue summer sky is perfectly reflected in the still water showing just a few wispy white clouds.
The view from the 'Glacier viewpoint' Except it's very far away and lost in the low clouds. View is the valley with steep sides mostly rock with some vegetation. The gap between the sides is obscured by low cloud. The view itself is framed between a couple of tress and some wonderful native ferns at the bottom
2 waterfalls tumbling over the rocks into the river on the walk tp Franz Josef Glacier. The rocks are capped with vegetation and bushes can be seen down the sides of the falls and beside the river. the sky above is washed out white in the image.