A friend of a friend once sold an air guitar on Ebay. If I remember the story correctly, someone paid a fiver for it.

Is this some kind of political statement about China?

It is clear the ergonomics of toilet roll placement were not considered here.

It was pointed out to me that these rocks look like a brutalised version of Mt. Rushmore. Or a Cubist rendition of the Easter Island statues. I am inclined to agree with those observations.

Someone had the good idea that the backs of sweet wrappers are a good place to share snaps of your friends. Why didn’t I think of that earlier?

The crowd did get bigger later… by about a dozen more people.

Super Mario and Dora the Explorer, icons of multicultural acceptance and the virtues of Community Cohesion

Bruce Lee would kick Ronald McDonald’s ass! There is only one item on the drinks menu here… WATAAAAAAGH!*

*Not actually true, this place does excellent mung bean milkshakes

I wanted to photo some of the other amusing signs dotted about this quirky antiques shop in Castleton but I was interrupted from doing so by an impromptu karaoke session.

Hello. I am a shorn sheep.

Crazy bikers in Nottingham Market Square. The awesome thing about photography is you can “freeze action” to get dodgy looking stuff like this. They didn’t crash, though maybe that would have been even more of a spectacle….

Spot the coolest dude on the ride.

Mr. T only does authentic cuisine, no artificial foods fool!

You would have to be living under a very substantial rock to not know there is a World Cup going on right now. England is performing particularly badly this year and we could be spared the sight of England flags sooner than the fans would hope.

On other news, those tents at the bottom of the photo house the disturbingly popular “Ladyboys of Bangkok” show which seems to be touring the country, or at least the East Midlands. Something to cheer up those disappointed England fans?

I lived in Loughborough for 5 years and it wasn’t until the end of my fifth year that I noticed these bells attached to the roadside bollards (along Ashby Road for the curious). Apparently, Loughborough has a history of manufacturing bells, which is the explanation behind the seemingly random presence of these specimens.

Once voted the ugliest building in Leicestershire, the Waterways building still makes my eyes hurt.

There is no bigger display of masculinity than a pair of poodles.

The time when Tom found he had been shooting all day with a camera that had no film in it….

Clearly, one is not allowed to use this mysterious Nikon here (inside Nottingham Castle). Looks like a cross between a Nikon F801 and a Nikon F4.

I’d like to think there is no involvement from any African princes (or other royalty) in this one.
This photograph would have looked a lot better had I employed one of the great secrets of photography, the polarising filter, to cut out those pesky reflections.