He slipped the potato off.
Strangely shaped potato
Reference number: 114/266/04-G
Her voice was terrifyingly pure. Driving, his father threw back his head and accompanied her in a rich baritone that caused his eyes to water. Eric leaning forward in the back seat listened to their harmony in stereo.
Electric Lamp House Limited :The Lamphouse annual 1948-49. New Zealand's leading radio and electrical guide
Reference number: Eph-B-RADIO-1948-01-cover
He stooped to examine a dead fledgeling among the onions. Its translucent eyelid was the bluish white of his mother’s moonstone brooch from Peru.
Girl with large piece of kauri gum, Northland
Reference number: 1/1-006276-G
He winced. A pink potato impaled on the tine.
Mounted deer's head, England
Reference number: 1/2-014036-G
As usual on this date Eric remembered the Czar Alexander, with whom he shared a birthday. Who, he repeated, leaning on his fork, declared the miner’s pick harder to wield than the sceptre.
Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898: To further fields...
Reference number: E-014-q-1-024
He looked up at the sky’s blue eyelid, sealed by day and opening at night.
Eclipse of the moon
Reference number: 114/275/12-F
Lately his thoughts had returned less to Beryl than to NGC2158. He wasn’t sure he’d seen it. Whether what he had seen was NGC2158, because that was the night she had knocked the telescope askew. Since then he had searched in vain.
Three Russian refugees working at Griffins factory, Lower Hutt
Reference number: EP/1973/2603/23
The vegetable garden demanded attention. Unthinned, his carrots grew twisted and shoulder to shoulder. Mandrake. He drew out one corkscrew-shaped, hairy, two-legged carrot, wiped off the earth and bit it. There was a tough yellow stalk inside. Too late.
Albert Percy Godber's grandsons, Colin and Norman Hartwig, with marrows and pumpkins, Silverstream
Reference number: APG-1441-1/4-G
Crystallised. She crushed the eggshells in her hands and looked at him sideways. Don’t let the witches go to sea.
Prince of Wales' Feathers Geyser, Wairakei
Reference number: 1/2-031979-G
Radiant nanoflowers, he said. Petrified violets.
Ultra violet ray, Sanatorium, Rotorua
Reference number: PA1-f-051-27-4