In the future, all bananas will be scannable

More everyday science-fiction here courtesy of multinational banana corporations.

I don't Shazam, but one of my colleagues does (it works on the photo as well as the banana itself) and brought up a 3D rendering of a rainforest.

Everyday science-fiction

Gangs of obsolete technologies huddle on street corners, radiating greyscale menace.

The patron saint of Eurodance

Found art: author unknown but fond of Eiffel 65.

Nooooooooo!! [shakes fist at sky]

Steady on, Roger!

Presented without comment, save for a link to the Doomy Dooms of Doom trope.

It was a more innocent time

Chapters include 'Thirty-nine lashes, well laid-on', Scars of honour' and 'A caning'

Found (where else?) in our holiday apartment in Hay-on-Wye.

None more brooding: Bective Abbey

Bective Abbey is a wonderful, Romantic (in the poetic sense) ruin in County Meath, Ireland. We made a brief visit there last week as we were staying nearby. Here it is in all its glory on a clear January day.

 

Woah!

A psychedelic, spore-like visual effect created by leaving soaked turtle beans to dry on top of a piece of kitchen towel in the fridge overnight.

"Look at me, I'm Joseph B..."

FULL OF CON-CEP-TUAL-ITY!

"Sing us a song, you're the piano man"

Cat on a Mondrianesque background

I could be happy the rest of my life with a cinnamon swirl

Preach it, Darth

Dracula: Mullet Of The Damned

Drac-u-doodle

Cthulhu doesn't grow plants...

But if he did they would probably look something like this.

Taken at a visit to the Eden Project this Autumn.

Wilkes and Lib-beer-ty

My inner history geek was pleased to find a pub in Leek named after eighteenth century radical, hellraiser and rabble-rouser (and particular thorn in the side of George III and his first Prime Minister the Earl of Bute) John Wilkes.

Wikipedia and Google tell me it's not the only pub so named - there's two more in Eastergate, West Sussex and Llandysul, Dyfed, and there used to be two more in St Ives, Cambridgeshire and Brentford, London.

This Wilkes Head claims to be one of the oldest pubs in Staffordshire, although I presume that's the site not the current premises! 

As far as I am aware, Wilkes also has no connection with Leek (which by comparison explains why Northampton has honoured local MP and early humanist Charles Bradlaugh with a pub named after him). So it's doubly fascinating to see how nearly 250 years later his infamy lives on in this and a few other scattered parts of the country.

'A ravioli set on toothpicks'

Whoever stashed this beermat sketch in the information rack at Tamworth station, hat off. Sadly your Facebook link does not appear to work.

Bowie, eroded

As seen on the streets of Belfast.

Seaside gothic

 

In case you weren't convinced this was actually a street.

 

A slight case of yarnbombing

As seen in Long Buckby centre while waiting for a train.