I realise that there is no immediately obvious focal point of this photograph but there is a bizarre botanical rarity. I needed a chilli tonight and went to pick one off my plant on the windowsill to find it had grown a very strange fruit indeed…quick, call Carl Linnaeus. We need him to identify then classify this unusual combination of fruits. Capsicum cheweduptennisballius is what we’ve found. It’s so rare that we think it could be the only one in existence, a brand new genetic mutation. On the one hand, there are many chillis, most of them ripe and ready to eat. The other fruit is er well what is it exactly? A smashed up tennis ball? Did the plant grow this strange thing? If not, how did it get here?

A logical explanation is that Lola was playing with her ball this morning, tossing it hither and thither and she tossed it rather more enthusiastically than she’d meant to and it lodged itself in the chilli plant on the kitchen windowsill. I can’t think of any other explanation. Surely no-one would ever just decide to put it there?

Not only is there strange fruit here, there is also a photobomber who, upon realising that the strange fruit was within her reach, decided to do just that. So, you might want to spot both the fruit and the interloper.