A KITTEN'S teaparty and rat's playing dominoes are the bizarre creations by one of Britain's great eccentrics pictured in an incredible new book. Other spookily compelling taxidermy images show a bird's funeral complete with casket, a kitten's wedding and a well-dressed stuffed monkey riding a goat. The stuffed curios were all created by Victorian Englishman Walter Potter, who originally displayed his strange taxidermy creatures to the awe-struck paying public from The White Lion Pub which doubled as his museum in Bramber, Sussex. Brought up in Bramber from 1835 and dying in 1918, Potter's museum continued to entertain until 1970, when it passed to the Jamaica Inn of Brighton. In 2003 the surviving collection was auctioned for half-a-million pounds to various buyers from across the world.
A cricket perches on an unusual seat after crawling up the snout of a crocodile .
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .
A Canadian couple celebrated their engagement by recreating iconic moments from the film The Notebook .
Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .
An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert .
FLEXING his muscles and staring straight at his opponent, this bodybuilding squirrel is the nuts .
WONDERS of the world have been transformed into their mini-versions in a seven-year round the world adventure .
LUMINOUS green rocks could easily be a beach from Superman's homeland of Krypton .
ALL IS not as it seems in these deceptive cityscapes .