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Fred Austere
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I’d say this is the one to look out for.
Siân Phillips playing Livia, Augustus’ wife. Do not mess with Livia.
October 28, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Me neither.
They’re lovely kitties.
September 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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A 1969 Nissan Skyline. Technically a saloon.
September 16, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Product placement.
A packet of ‘Kittensoft’-brand toilet tissue. Aww, what a cute kitty! Pspspsps! Like a scritch? Awww!
September 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Our friend Computer would like a word. A variation on the classic smoking boot image from the role-playing game‘Paranoia’.
September 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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How about No. 62, West Wallaby Street, Wigan, Lancashire?
Wallace and Gromit (on the right): a portrait of an inventor, entrepreneur and a scientific genius (the latter also on the right). Cracking!
August 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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“Haaaaahaaahaaa (etc.)”
An alien, recently. It appears to have descended from the early black-and-white Smash aliens. It is not currently consuming instant mashed potatoes.
August 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Looks more like America’s Göring.
Hermann Göring, a fat Nazi. Hail the master race!
August 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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I mean, with this and the RADIOACTIVE FUCKING WASPS from the other day…are you trying to attract kaiju?
Shrimp! RFWs*! Is this to distract us, destroy us or just great PR by Team Gojira (pictured above, looking a bit peckish)? *RADIOACTIVE FUCKING WASPS!
August 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Got a new spot for my ‘Wolf Hall’ books. It’s a Hilary Mantel-piece.
The books of the ‘Wolf Hall’ trilogy - ‘Wolf Hall’, ‘The Mirror & The Light’ and ‘Bring Up The Bodies’ by Hilary Mantel, on a mantlepiece. And I’d do it all again. Bwa-ha-ha! Bwaaaa-haaa-haaa-haaaaa!
August 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Comes with a handy transporter too.
The UD-4L ‘Cheyenne’ dropship. Handy for popping down to the corner shop.
August 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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The M577, by any chance?
The M577 Armoured Personnel Carrier from the film ‘Aliens’. In reality, a converted aircraft tug from London Heathrow. And the dropship is a work of art too…
August 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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‘What, not fitted by your personal tailor?’
A kitty looking distinctly unimpressed. (She’s a tween cat, she has every right.)
August 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Perhaps Dobby from Peep Show?
The character ‘Dobbie’ from ‘Peep Show’ portrayed by Isy Suttie.
August 10, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Mr. Derek Albion Smalls, with something to declare. Not necessarily his genius.
August 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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And to think, you’d have Clangers as neighbours!
Space neighbours: the Clanger family - as seen in the classic BBC TV show.
July 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Meanwhile, in Yorkshire:
The window of a shop selling such Yorkshire delights as Giant Yorkshire Pork and Pudding Turkey.
July 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Wake up, it’s Saturday, make a nice cup of…oh.
A photo of a cup bearing an image of a cat displaying it’s nethers, with the word ‘hello’ inscribed below its jacksie. It seems friendly enough, if a little preoccupied.
July 19, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Like this?
Fan out, everybody. A collection of vintage fans in a display window.
July 12, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Stupid sexy Stalin…
A propaganda image of Stalin, once leader of the USSR, known for his inclination towards mass murder and other nasty habits
June 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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I think this chap would be very supportive.
Mr. Duck van Dyke, star of screen and stage, being reassuring.
June 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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One of these, from 1981!
A Williams Defender game. Controls are up/down (joystick), forward/reverse, fire, hyperspace and smart bomb. Some of the enemies are complete bastards. And this thing was…fast.
June 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Serge Danot’s existentialist hound?
Dougal, from the original ‘Magic Roundabout’, based on ‘Le Manège Enchanté’, looking for a sugarlump.
June 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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I can’t wait for the Muppet chicken scene.
Henrietta (Clarissa’s friend) watching the horror flick ‘Eraserhead’.
June 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Milligan, Sellers, Secombe and co. would like a word.
The main cast of the BBC’s Light Entertainment radio broadcast ‘The Goon Show’: Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe.
June 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM