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.
DASHING through the snow, this little stoat is on the lookout for a Christmas feast .
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .
AIRPORT staff have been put on alert after diet pills that come in grenade shaped containers sparked security alerts .
HUNDREDS of hot air balloons decorate the sky above Turkey as the rising sun illuminates the spectacular scenery below .
GLAMPING is taken to a whole new level in the form of the luxurious Pop-Up Hotel .
A WIMBLEDON-mad couple will be creating a racket this summer - after installing a TENNIS COURT in their living room .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
SLEEPING within touching distance of wild African animals might not be everyone's idea of a relaxing break .
WITH his spiked ears and yellow and blue body, a colourful monkey bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel Comics’ Wolverine .