Ryan Shirlow

Didn’t your dad set fire to little buttons on a sheet of cardboard in the garage that produced weird smells, faint sparkles and - best of all - a kind of coiling poo? “Indoor fireworks” they were called.

Fungi growing in a woodland, it looks remarkably like zombie fingers reaching up from the ground

When in the woods, best beware of dead man's fingers lurking there.
Reaching up above the ground, a creepy fungi to be found.

Happy Halloween everyone.

Photo: Sheringham Park by Rob Coleman

I briefly drove a 2006 Mondeo company car and it was one of the best all round cars I’ve ever had, including the secret trick of being let out of every junction by every other Ford driver, never had that with any other brand.

You had to lure the aliens onto your ship by communicating with them in a series of runes, you were looking for clones of yourself or something.

It was impossibly hard, but you could blow up planets and one time my friend abducted someone and distintegrated him on the spaceship to see if it would help him regenerate. But no.

Philip Larkin’s this be the verse mangled into Ozymandias, the text reads They Oz you up, your mandyias. They may not mean to, but they do. They give you vast and trunkless legs A sunken shattered visage too. But they were Ozzed up in their turn By Mandyias upon the sand Who half the time had wrinkled lips And half in sneering cold command. Oz hands on mandyias to man. Like mighty works atop a shelf Look on them early as you can Ye mighty and despair yourself

I think Milosevic tried though

it’s not like I could creatively rearrange the buildings for originality

well there were hundreds of people taking pictures on the walls when I was there, and it’s a fairly obvious shot

A stone archway leading from the harbour back into the old town

A view through two pillars into a garden courtyard at the old apothecary

Up at the sky, from the courtyard at the rector’s palace museum

Dubrovnik Old Town

A window to the restaurant at the monastery on the island of Lokram, partially obscured by a leafy palm tree, apparently some Game of Thrones scenes were filmed here

Inside the stone tower of the fort on Lokram, lit from above

The walkway beneath the monastery, leading to the museum of the crusades, lit by glowing arches and accompanied by whispered chanting in latin

On Lokram

Out from “cave bar” to the terrace

A doorway to a health and safety free zone combining alcohol, soft rock music, and dangerous falls onto hard rock rocks. The graffiti says “No topless, no nudists” - classy

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The sparkling sea, viewed through a window on the city walls

The city itself, from the castle on the city walls

another view out across the city towards the harbour

A little theme in my photos of Dubrovnik has become portals: views within views. Enjoy!

Also wasn’t the whole of Brit Pop about Justine Frischmann?

The Verve - who were an unlistenable load of psych-rock space noise until Richard Ashcroft stumbled teary eyed into an acoustic guitar shop and discovered G sus.

the confidence of some of these mad protest hacks - if you rub lemon juice into your eyes and walk backwards round a statue of the King all your warts will fall off

Minority representation on TV causes outrage There has been widespread way of life and their strange support for prominent Reform MP customs, but Reform MPs Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of comprise only 0.7 percent of the minorities on television. House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time Said one angry viewer, "She's more than Fiona Bruce. right. Every time you turn on "I'm not prejudiced. Some of the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough. Kuenssberg." There are too many people with She added, "I respect their angry red faces on television."

Private Eye.

I had an incredible spiced apple pudding

I’ve been before, was quite a trek but definitely worth it that time.

Good morning wulferhampton have a wonderful Wednesday Hump Day you wondering weirdos

A pencil drawing of a skeleton holding a spear on the side of a church.

This is my drawing of the creepy Ankou sculpture on the church of Lannédern in Brittany. Ankou is a psychopomp, the servant of death who takes the deceased to the otherworld.
The original artwork is now available on my Etsy shop here: shorturl.at/HDzSI
#WyrdWednesday

I reckon they should distribute it in cans and post them off to TV networks around the World.

That way if somebody at the BBC loses it and junks the archives, fans can spend 60+ years looking for those hard copies...

I don't think we have any choice but to wrest control of society's resources away from these people, their whole vision for the future consists of nothing but faster nightmares unto doom

Head of a big soft cat emerging from a stone drain

Floof drain, Dubrovnik

The wife had some stuff from a local wine maker, I had some local gin (“habitat” apparently) and trying various rakija (favourite is honey.)

Me standing at the top of a flight of stone stairs on the walls of Dubrovnik

On the walls of Dubrovnik