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Once more Tony Stark AKA the Invincible Iron Man enters the arena of love...

"Miss Potts, order a dozen Gladys for Gladys please...."
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We found a garden bed full of unidentified bulbs, at least one of which flowered into this glorious gladiolus this spring.

The pink blooms seemed to me to be a good match for this Iron Man figure, whose soft vinyl was a little more pink hued than the other I.M figures I have.

The backdrop is a piece of scrap fabric from my partner's rag box, and she also helped out by keeping the flower steady in the high winds we had on the day we shot this.

The Figure was made by a Japanese company, Yamato, and is part of their "!StoryImageFigure!" Marvel Comics range. They're neat little soft PVC toys that have to be assembled by snapping the pieces together and are contained within two boxes (talk about wasteful packaging!) when purchased, with the inner box serving as a display container witha clear plastic window and the outer box being 'blind'. That means you don't have any idea what the figure inside is until you buy one and open the box. There is a also a variant figure with a metallic paint job. The figure stands about 8.5 cm (3.75 inches) and has limited articulation.

I did a little work with photoshop on the helmet slits and chest plate uni-beam emitter.

To the south west of the Catholic Church is the graveyard and cathedral of Saint John the Baptist (Church of Ireland). Galloway describes the cathedral as 'an elegant Classical structure with a mottled grey stone exterior and banding linking Corinthian pilasters.' The three-storey porch has a triangular pediment above which is a two-storey square tower with round-arched louvered windows and Corinthian pilasters on each face. Over this is a small rotunda with four windows similar to those on the storey below alternating with four blind windows. The addition of a spire in 1812 gave the building its present appearance. The former diocesan library founded by Archbishop Bolton is housed in a building of 1835. The library building (restored in 1986) contains a fine collection of sixteenth and seventeenth-century books.

The fine entrance gates of the yard of the cathedral open onto John Street, a primarily residential street composed of terraces of large late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century townhouses. Many of these houses retain the original fenestration though it is obvious that PVC replacements have eroded the character of the streetscape.