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.
TENNIS was a game made for three according to the first Victorian rule book .
WELCOME to the Temple of Zoom where you can “experience” sliding down a Mayan temple into shark infested waters .
FLYING through the air, these delighted pooches pull their best poses mid-flight .
A makeup artist from the West Midlands magically transforms herself into famous cartoon characters using body paint .
Staring death in the face, a little field mouse bravely confronts a hungry cat .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
A DETERMINED great blue heron holds on tightly to its prey as the furry gopher attempts to wriggle free .
A US firefighter has battled osteoarthritis and four hip replacements to break the world paddleboarding record .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
THIS incredible shimmer of silver fish mirrors the image of that of an underwater tornado .
