Wig Fortuna

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Two pints of Guinness on a wooden pub table.
View down the inside of Carlisle Cathedral towards the main stained glass window, showing blue and gold ceiling details and gothic wooden pews.
Exterior of Carlisle Cathedral - a brown stone gothic building with large elegant window. A small tower visible on the left and a green tree in the foreground on the right. Blue cloudless sky and green sward in front.
Low down shot of our lawn showing a profusion of wild plants - grass with seeds, half-closed daisies and yellow flowers on long stalks.
Jeff Goldblum on stage holding a microphone. Backs of heads of the crowd in the foreground.
Full picture of the wolf mosaic in Leeds City Museum.
Close up of the face of the wolf in the mosaic in the Leeds city museum. Yellowish background tesserae, black wolf with staring eyes and yellow nose outline, suspiciously red lips and sharp white teeth. Not sure whether to be scared or amused.
My Duolingo 3000 day streak badge. Orange background with orange Duo owl in sunglasses and on fire.
My bat detector switched on with a green indicator light.
Top of an aluminium pop can, lid open with eyes drawn either side of the lid pull so it looks like a face. The can is sitting on the lid of our recycling bin.
A view from the bank of the Arno river in Florence, looking towards a red sunset with sweeping grey clouds, Ponte Vecchio in the distance.
Pack of three kitchen paper rolls with the wrapper featuring a painting of the thirteen Icelandic Yule Lads in various mischievous poses.
Aurora borealis above the Sun Voyager sculpture on a rocky shoreline in Reykjavik.
An empty McDonald’s fries package slotted into the wooden slats of a new fence panel.
Orange and yellow maple leaf on a grey concrete sidewalk surrounded by a few more brown maple leaves.
A line of illuminated jack-o-lanterns at the edge of a concrete splash pad in a park. It’s evening so the pumpkins are illuminated a bright orange from within.
Blue morning sky with a Herring Gull sitting on the left corner of a silhouetted roof with the just-past-full moon positioned above the right. Ash tree leaves hanging down from the top left in the foreground and Scots Pine nicely illuminated in the background on the right.
Oil painting of grey/blue concrete floor showing a rusty coloured water plate in the bottom left corner, plus the words “Caution! Water” daubed in bright yellow at an angle on the concrete background.
Picture of a blue morning sky with undulating white and grey clouds, almost looking like waves on the ocean. To the left and right are tree silhouettes in the foreground.
Picture of a blue morning sky with undulating white and grey clouds, almost looking like waves on the ocean. To the left and right are tree silhouettes in the foreground.
A screenshot of the Now TV app in the Sports/Motorsports/Catch-Up section. Next to the IndyCar Road America catch-up videos is “Netanyahu - America & The Road to War in Gaza”.
Jigglypuff, a round, pink Pokémon character with big blue eyes looking cutely at the viewer.
Evening sky showing silhouettes of treetops and a bright planetary conjunction.
The Black Cone Monument to Civil Disobedience in downtown Reykjavik. A large stone split by a black cone causing a crack from too top to bottom.
Snapshot of my Pokémon Go Pikachu called Snorri in hat and sunglasses. Caught in Reykholt, Iceland.
The Black Cone, The Monument to Civil Disobedience in Reykjavik, Iceland. “When the government violates the rights of the people, Insurrection is for the people and for each portion of the people the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.”
A pasty on a train
Statue of August Strindberg in a small park near his apartment / museum in Stockholm.
Duolingo 2000 day streak