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Very occasional vegetable arranger.

A red T-shirt with the words "STAN THE MAN" and "YONEX" in white. Also a bag printed with a picture of Stan Wawrinka, dressed in his much discussed at the time tartan'ish shorts, on the clay of Roland Garros when he won his French Open title. I bet my T-shirt he's just about to hit a backhand. There's also my racket, which looks a bit like Stan's - it desperately needs a new overgrip.
A tiny, upside-down circuit board strapped with two rubber bands to a large, upside-down, empty Tic Tac box with rubber bands. Pimoroni's pirate person logo is upside-down and instead of looking like a friendly, bearded, hat-wearing pirate, it now looks like a slightly menacing, bearded person with ear mufflers and a fine head of hair.
A tiny, in focus circuit board strapped with two rubber bands to a large, upside-down, empty Tic Tac box with rubber bands. Pimoroni's pirate person logo is so adorable.
A messy desk with all sorts of Raspberry Pi microcontroller development boards, breadboards, jumper wires etc. There's a monitor in the background being driven by my logic analyser project, although the star of the show is a pirate-branded infrared remote control together with a tiny circuit board, which houses an infrared detector and Pimoroni's pirate logo.
A shop's freezer cabinet with bags and bags of chips, and one of those digital e-paper price tags displays informing customers that "MCCAIN HOME CHIPS STRAIGHT CUT, 16KG" cost "£4.70" and below that in much smaller text "29.4p per 100g".
A birthday card made from a folded piece of card and a photo of courgettes arranged to look like the top half of a smiling man, with his triumphant arms above his head holding the number 6 in his right hand and a 0 in his left. It's all made from yellow courgettes, except his torso, his mouth and the numbers, which are made from green courgettes. And his eyes are made from split black beans. And there's a sunflower in the top left corner. Beneath the photo is written, "Courgette©", and beneath that, "The Best a Man Can Get™".
A piece of plain A4 paper folded in half twice. Written in pencil is a sort of table, consisting of three columns, listing the possible functions of the pins on the Raspberry Pi 500+'s FPC cable, which connects the keyboard to the motherboard. One of these pins is labelled 'MYSTERY PIN 10'.
An Atmel ATMega8L microcontroller on a rectangular-shaped piece of stripboard with a few components including a voltage regulator, a red LED, capacitors, resistors, pin headers, wires and last, but not least, a USB Type B socket. Oh, and a label with some evidence of having been written on, but the ink has faded and it's now illegible.
A mostly-assembled SolderParty FlexyPin Raspberry Pi Pico Adapter housing a Raspberry Pi Pico and plugged into a green mini breadboard. Coloured wires connect this mini breadboard to a white mini breadboard. The Adapter is resting on its labelled anti-static bag, and to its left is an unopened labelled anti-static bag containing a SolderParty RP2xxx Stamp Carrier Basic.
A Pimoroni Pico LiPo 2 XL W inserted into the Pico socket of A Pimoroni Pico Decker (Quad Expander) with a DVI Sock attached upside down to the expansion pins immediately to the left of the Pico socket. Twenty of the Pico LiPo's pins are suspended over the bottom edge of the Pico socket as the Pico Lipo has 60 pins, whereas a standard Raspberry Pi Pico (2) has 40. There are also at least 4 USB cables, an RPi Debug Probe, an RPI Pico, a VGA cable, an HDMI cable and a mouse mat all arranged haphazardly around the Pico Decker.
A big yellow courgette balanced on a set of kitchen scales to the left of the real star of the show, a Pico Jumbo, which is a twelve times scale working model of a Raspberry Pi Pico 2. To the Jumbo's right is a real Pico 2, and beneath that a one penny piece and a fifty pence piece. Just below the Jumbo is a stand for it, with the text, 'Pico Stand. This small PCB acts as both a stand for your Jumbo or a backscratcher for a hamster. Use wisely.'. The Jumbo is resting on a Pimoroni circuit board labelled 'WHAT THE FLEX', only the Jumbo is covering up the 'L', 'E' and 'X' of FLEX.
On a grey concrete floor is the sliced top of a round, yellow courgette, which has also been sliced through the dark green part that was once attached to the stem of its plant. This has exposed the very pale green flesh of the fruit within its dark green border, and looks like an organic, nine-pointed star. Together with its mostly circular yellow background, it looks a bit like a kapow - a comic-strip style explosion or punch, often associated with Batman and Robin. Beneath the kapow courgette is the word 'KAPOW!' carved from a large, regular-shaped, green courgette. The letters are deep enough to expose the very pale green flesh of the fruit. Like all respectable vegetable arrangers I've added my signature, which is in the bottom-right corner.
A Pimoroni Pico LiPo 2 (XL W) in the small pocket inside the larger front right-hand pocket of a pair of jeans (a pocket no-one ever uses for anything ever). The jeans are being worn by me, but you can't see the rest of me. The top of Pico LiPo 2 is sticking out of the top of the pocket (at a slight angle) with its USB-C socket, three LEDs, two switches, and only 11 of its 60 surface-mount pads showing.
On a wooden tabletop are laid out: a Pimoroni Pico LiPo (2 XL W) in the centre of the frame, a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 to its left, and a small, yellow, home-grown courgette (zucchini) to its right. Pimoroni's Pico (a microcontroller development board) is about one and a half times the length of Raspberry Pi's Pico, and both Picos are smaller than the courgette.
Just nine seconds of blank video. Blank because it's night and I didn't want to disturb the busy, busy frogs by shining a torch on them.
One frog hanging around with its legs outstretched just under the surface of a murky pond. To its right are two more frogs trying not to be noticed at the bottom of the pond.
A small blackboard next to the door leading into a theatre. On the blackboard has been chalked 'John Finnemore', although the 'o' and the 'r' of 'Finnemore' have merged, making it look like 'Finnemde'. Underneath, and in smaller letters, is 'DURATION 7:30 - 9:30'; underneath that is 'INTERVAL: 8:15' and underneath that is 'WARNING: LAUGHING!'.
A sort of conical shaped thing made up of tiny slightly squashed spheres of hot melt glue. The glue had dribbled from a glue gun, which I'd left on by mistake, formed itself into spheres, cooled, and solidified. Each sphere, which is about the size of a coriander seed, has landed either next to or on top of previously dribbled spheres. The final result is something that looks a bit like a tiny, clear, bobbly, Christmas tree. The tiny tree has been placed over the green LED on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 microcontroller development board. And every two seconds or so, and for a second or so, the tree gets lit up like a... well, like a tiny, bright green, bobbly, Christmas tree.
Viewed from the side, an upside down Pimoroni Pico Plus 2 and an upside down Pimoroni Pico Plus 2W butted up to each other on the non USB connector end, showing that the SP/CE connector is taller than the RM2 module.
Viewed from above, a Pimoroni Pico Plus 2 badly housed between two EDAC SMT Edge Connectors for the Pico. I say badly because it's all held together with rubber bands. It's resting on a Monk Makes Pico Proto PCB, as is a Raspberry Pi Pico.
Some shiny new things laid flat on an orange coloured book cover and viewed from above. The things are: an RP2350 Stamp XL microcontroller development board, an RP2xxx Stamp Carrier XL circuit board, an RPi Pico to Uno FlexyPin Adapter circuit board, and a clear plastic bag of FlexyPins. They're all from a company called Solder Party.