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This smart young mouse has a real nose for music with ears to match.

This wise old bird always says no, whatever the question.

It’s time for some romance. This inexhaustible couple just can’t get enough of one another.

This magic roundabout sets our passengers into an almighty spin. Of course, the saucers have all flown off and are nowhere to be seen, leaving just the flying teacups which are moved solely by the wonderful wizardry of wood.

Insects don’t get much of a look-in on the automata front. Most of them have an annoying number of extraordinarily thin legs and aren’t generally as cuddly as cats and dogs, or even Koala bears. I feel this is rather an injustice, so I thought that it’s about time for an automata dedicated to thatContinue reading “The Berlin Dragonfly”

This curious animal is a rare specimen of the teapoticus nervosus, commonly known as the nervous teapot. Lifting its red knob raises the lid to let light right in, often dazzling the poor creature. Here, he is sharing a seesaw ride with a friendly bee.

Schools of fish are are so clever that when all swimming in the same direction they can suddenly all change direction at the same time. It’s a perfect ballet! But how do they do that? Is it telepathy? Is there a sergeant-major fish who yells “about turn!”. See it for yourself and make up yourContinue reading “The Fish School of Ballet”

Who needs a roundabout if you’ve got eight arms and like to get in a right spin!.

We have had a lot of weather recently and here is a little more. At least with this version, you won’t get wet feet.

Our princess had just been to the hairdressers which was so tiring that she settled down in a comfy chair in the garden and drifted off into a deep sleep. Meanwhile a sudden gust of wind in the treetops blew a new family out of the branches of a tree to drift down onto theContinue reading “The Unexpected Visitors”