Dining out in 1963 John wears a pair of American jeans. This fashion was easy to come by thanks to Liverpudlian sailors returning from New York. The only advertising campaign the band ever undertook was for a local jeans company called Libro.
The ginger fur, pink flippers and vivid blue eyes may be why this nearly blind, albino seal pup was rejected by his family and left to fend for himself. He was found by the photographer Anatoly Strakhov who spotted him hiding under some logs on Tyuleniy Island, Russia. Strakhov said: ‘He wasn’t playing with other baby seals. He was just hiding and waiting for his mother to come and feed him’ | image by Anatoly Strakhov
Poor baby!
Detail of Tea Leaves by William McGregor Paxton, c. 1909. (via Via )
Otherwise titled Teatime Texting.