Ian

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Nic Cage being attacked by bees from the end of the rubbish wicker man remake, with the words "Bee all you can bee" & a US army logo over it.
Landscape orientation image of a black, white & orange butterfly sitting on a buddleia with it's wings open. What we can see of the plant is basically just a long thick tube of pink flowers. The colouration looks slightly darker & redder than normal but that's cause I took this at a weird angle then rotated it & the image is actually upside down, which is why the top of the background is the blurry concrete of the car park behind the bush.
Closeup of a bumble bee with a white tail sitting on the end of a lavender plant & feeding from a flower. We are looking down at the plant from above & the plant is sticking out of the frame at us.
Red admiral butterfly standing side on, on a buddleia with it's wings closed. The buddleia has a long thick tube of lots of small pink flowers.
Close up of a pink geranium. There is a bumble bee (possibly a carder bee) side on to us standing in the flower feeding.
BECMI D&D Set 5: The Immortals Rules
Garfield on the moon. It's a riff on Watchmen.
Chart with pictures & info about primates.
Medium sized brown and white bird just about to walk into a building with blue carpet through a set of open side doors. It seemed a bit lost, so not sure what it was look for? Maybe food or maybe just some shade?
Fly with a metallic green body in the bottom left standing on a dirty stone surface with a small hairy plant near it at the top of the image.
Ramekin of mushy peas on a wooden table
Lavender plant covered in flowers diagonally in the middle of the frame. There is a honey bee near the top of the plant feeding from a flower.
Screen caps from the tv show of Westworld. Bernard is in both. At the top someone out of frame is saying "Any of this mean anything to you?" & at the bottom he's saying "Doesn't look like anything to me"
Closeup of an orange Harlequin ladybird in the bottom left of the image. It's standing on a rusty reddish brown surface with blurry green behind that in the background
Light red to pink pillar in a café with "Rules of the Cafe" written on it. Under this are the following rules: "Please Note - No Smoking No bargaining No loud telephoning No washing hands in- plates and glass No combing hair No flirting with cashier No mischief making No stealing newspaper No petting (heavy) No spoiling floor No running away No sleeping in toilet No match sticks No discussing gambling No address enquiry"
3 actors from a modern Greek chorus with exaggerated masks. They do not look happy, but then the masks are fixed like that :)
Closeup of a large yellow flower in the middle of the frame with a blurry garden behind it. There is a bumble bee sleeping at the top right of the flower facing us.
Tall white mushroom with a small darker cap that has some black showing. It's not a great photo.
D&D Red Box Basic Set from 1983. It's not the first version of the game by a long way, but it's the first version I played.
Antlion from Half Life 2
Ticket to Ride UK board on a table surrounded with cards you use to play the game. It's a stylized map of the UK & Ireland covered with tiny red yellow & black plastic trains. I was playing red.
Portrait orientation image of lavender & a honey bee. Most of the plants are out of focus apart from one in the middle of the frame that's diagonal & has a honey bee standing on it. Because I rotated the image the bee's pose takes on a different character than how it looked in real life & it looks like the bee is looking up & standing tall to face the day.
Tightly cropped closeup image of a honey bee holding on to a lavender plant & just about to feed from one of the flowers. The doesn't have many flowers at the end of its stem & is coming out of the frame & pointing towards us
Small yellow & black furry stripped bee standing on a stone wall with a large plant with a thick stem & large green leaves behind it. The bee was in the middle of cleaning itself & there's what looks like a yellow smudge on the top of it's back leg, but it might be the bees pollen pouch. Not sure. (the image is in landscape, but it's been rotated 90 degrees so was actually in portrait)
Small fly with a thick orange body resting on a leaf
Comic illustration of a golden man with a gun standing over a black woman lying on the floor. There's a speach bubble near him that says "is Goldface"
Close up of a bumble bee covered in yellow pollen sitting on a yellow ragwort flower & feeding from it.
Honey bee feeding from a bush with multiple blue/pink/violet flowers
Black sticker on a grey lamp post with the words "When you punch a Nazi the whole world punches with you"
Bumble bee in flight just about to land on a large yellow flower with 5 petals. The bees wings are fairly blurry.
Talosian alien with a big veiny head/brain from The Cage, the original pilot episode of the original series of Star Trek.
Closeup of a grey lamp post on the left hand side of the image with a sticker on it that says "AI IS FAKE". There's a worn redbrick wall behind the lamp post.
Slightly corroded metal lamp post with a sticker of a hand chocking a snake & the words "No Mercy for Fascism". You can just about see a bus in the background, but it's mostly been cropped out.
Windows Media Center electronic program guide with some listing for UK Freeview tv channels
Sticker on a bridge of a figure standing on a planet with a red sky looking at a very large moon. The top of the sticker has the words "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings." - Ursula Le Guin, which is a slight misquote from a speach she gave in 2014
Book shelves in a Norwegian book shop, but I've rotated the image so you can read the titles easier.
Cenobites from Hellraiser
Art page from the start of volume 3 of Dungeon Meshi. Several adventurer characters are sitting on some steps near a wall eating.
Page from Dungeon Meshi. The characters are sitting & standing around a dragons body.
Honey bee standing on a lavender plant & feeding on one of the flowers. The flowers are small & purple & the plant has lots of them on about half of its stem.
Animated gif of Grampa Simpson saying "Which was the style at the time"
Small group of very small white flowers growing from an orange stem sticking out from a sandstone wall into the street. Each of the flowers has a a few very small reddish brown dots at the end of each of its stamen.
Dexter shrugging & trying to look innocent
Cover to Bumsider by CC MacApp. Yes this is a real book. (there's a monster thing lunging at the viewer & what looks like maybe a couple of spaceships crashing on the right, with a spaceman with a gun on the left in the background)
Large patch of greyish/white mushrooms, although some of them are black & it'd been raining so they're all wet
Tall redhead holding a short brunette against a wall so her feet are off the ground.
Pink flower with 5 crinkly petals viewed side on. Probably a Clematis?
Sounds of Cylons, a joke Simon & Garfunkel album cover. Simon & Garfunkel are running away from a Cylon from the original tv series.
Screen shot from Top of the pops, but everyone's face is garbled cause someone's used to much image processing.
PC Engine game "Bonk's Adventure"
Screen shot from driving section of Agent X on the ZX Spectrum in a top down isometric perspective. The play area is mostly black & yellow, with life/energy counters at the bottom. Can't remember why there were 2, it was a long time ago.
Same image as above but I've increased the gamma so it's paler/brighter & there a tiny bit more visible detail.
Bounty chocolate bar cut in two to show the coconut filling