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It’s Friday so here’s a slideshow of kangaroos from around the world

Featuring Rolf Harris, Lance Armstrong and Winston Churchill. Really.

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THE SUBJECT OF today’s slideshow came to me this morning like a Virgin Mary-shaped cloud appears to god-fearing folk at Knock on a sunny day.

Or not. I was chatting to an Australian friend last night so I could just be employing all my Down Under stereotypes.

Whatever the reason, it was an inspired moment. Not only does today’s slideshow feature an archive image of Rolf Harris, there is also one of Winston Churchill feeding an albino kangaroo called Digger. When you look up surreal in the dictionary, that last sentence comes up.

It’s Friday so here’s a slideshow of kangaroos from around the world
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  • A relaxed kangaroo

    A kangaroo is seen enjoying the sun at the zoo in Heidelberg, southwestern Germany, on a sunny Thursday. (AP Photo/Daniel Roland)
  • Fighting Kangaroos

    Two kangaroos fight at Hanover Zoo in 2008. (AP Photo/Axel Heimken)
  • Winston Churchill and his kangaroo

    Winston Churchill visits "Digger", his white kangaroo at London Zoo. The only albino kangaroo in Europe, Digger was presented to Churchill by the Australian Stockbreeders Association. Image date: 3 January 1948
  • Kangaroos

    There were a serious number of photos in our sources of sports men holding kangaroos and wallabies. Can anyone offer an explanation? First up is French rugby union player Sebastien Chabal who feeds a wallaby named Autumn as a red kangaroo named Penny hops behind him at Taronga Zoo in Sydney this year. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
  • Saving Kangaroos

    A Matschie's Tree Kangaroo, the only one at the Singapore Zoo is seen in the Fragile Forest section which houses animals in danger of extinction. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
  • Tiny Baby Kangaroo

    A 2kg baby eastern grey kangaroo is fed from a bottle in Sydney, Australia after his mother was killed in a car accident. (AP Photo/Mandi Griffith)
  • Rejected Kangaroo

    Tijana is being fed from a bottle by a zoo keeper in Belgrade Zoo because her mother ran away after being scared by an emu, a large Australian bird and six-month-old Tijana fell out from the pouch. Now, the big-eyed baby kangaroo, which normally would feed on her mother's milk inside the pouch, is being fed in an incubator with special milk donated by Australia, the United States and Germany. (AP Photo/Srdjan Ilic)
  • Rejected Kangaroo

    The zoo keepers said Tijana will be fed from a bottle for the next couple of months before getting food such as rice and bananas. (AP Photo/Srdjan Ilic)
  • Pet Kangaroo

    A young Australian girl with her pet kangaroo in 1951 (S&G Barratts/EMPICS Archive)
  • Warm Kangaroos

    A Red Kangaroo beats the heat by licking an ice block at the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak, Michigan in 2006. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
  • Twin Kangaroos

    Kangaroo mother Naddel, left, is pictured with her six-month-old twins at the zoo in Hanover, northern Germany. The birth of kangaroo twins are unusual. (AP Photo/Fabian Bimmer)
  • Boxing Kangaroo

    Freddie Mills, Britain's former light-heavyweight champion, spars with George the Kangaroo at Ascot. Image date: 25 November 1962 (PA Archive/Press Association Images)
  • Japan Kangaroo

    Eight-month-old male Red Kangaroo 'Hashiro' holds its keeper's arm as it is fed from a bottle at the Yokohama zoological gardens. Hashiro fell off the pouch of its mother and broke its right forefoot. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
  • Tennis and a kangaroo

    Croatian tennis player Marin Cilic meets Timmy the tree kangaroo during a visit to Royal Melbourne Zoo during the Australian Open. (AP Photo/Pool)
  • Serbia Kangaroo

    A baby kangaroo named Marta is held by a keeper who is looking after her after she was abandoned by her mother. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
  • Uzbekistan Kangaroo

    An albino kangaroo named Milka clings to his mother at a zoo in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. (AP Photo)
  • Confused kangaroo

    Butternut the cat appears to be unhappy at the strange-looking new pet that moved in with her. Roo, a 7-month-old kangaroo, is making himself right at home in Butternut's milk dish in Miami on 23 July 1976. (AP Photo/Bill Hudson)
  • Lance Armstrong and a kangaroo

    Awkward. (AP Photo/Aman Sharma)
  • Kimbe the Tree Kangaroo

    Zoo keeper Rizal Bakar, left, uses a target to lure "Kimbe", a Goodfellow Tree Kangaroo from Papua New Guinea as part of its 'Operant Conditioning' procedures to check for the presence of babies in her pouch. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-e)
  • Red Kangaroo Albino

    A red kangaroo albino cub is seen with it's mother at a zoo in Spisska Nova Ves, Slovakia.
  • More sports stars with kangaroos

    Suzuki MotoGP rider Chris Vermeulen of Australia, 250cc Metis Gilera team rider Marco Simoncelli of Italy, and 125cc Bancaja Aspar team rider Julian Simon of Spain feed kangaroos. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
  • Winter Kangaroo

    A kangaroo sits in the snow inside its enclosure at Flamingo Land Zoo, Pickering, North Yorkshire as the cold weather continues.
  • Rolf and a Kangaroo. Obviously.

    This March 1964 picture came with the following caption: Rolf Harris, Australian musician and singer feeds another native of Australia, a red kangaroo. (Topham Picturepoint/Press Association Images)
  • So many kangaroos

    (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)
  • Curious Kangaroo

    (AP Photo/Mark Graham)
  • Albino Wallaby

    (AP Photo/Heribert Proepper)
  • Albino Wallaby

    (AP Photo/Heribert Proepper)
  • Albino Wallaby

    It is very rare that kangaroos give birth to an albino pet. (AP Photo/Heribert Proepper)
  • Albino Wallaby

    An albino red-neck wallaby pet looks out of its mother's pouch in the local zoo of Gettorf, northern Germany, as it enjoys the sunny temperatures. (AP Photo/Heribert Proepper)
  • Baby Red Kangaroo

    A baby red kangaroo peers out from his mother's pouch at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo in Cleveland, on Friday, 7 May 2010. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)
  • 100-year-old Kangaroo

    This photo shows the 12-year-old red kangaroo Butii (over 100 years old in the human equivalent) taking care of her baby at Tobe Zoological Park in western Japan. The mother kangaroo, almost blind from cataracts, has been successfully raising the joey, said to be six months old, with close monitoring by zoo keepers. (Kyodo)
  • Australia Kangaroo

    (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, file)
  • Kangaroo escape

    A male kangaroo is recaptured and brought back to a zoo in Moriyama, Shiga Prefecture in 2010 after escaping the previous day. The male kangaroo made his getaway soon after arriving from another zoo in Tochigi Prefecture and was found five hours later in a rice field some 500 metres away. (Kyodo)
  • Pet Kangaroo

    Christie Carr dresses her kangaroo, Irwin, in a shirt. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
  • Kangaroo

    Christie Carr gets a lick from her pet kangaroo, Irwin, at her home in Oklahoma. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrock, File)
  • Kangaroo Therapy

    Nette Hudson cuddles Irwin at Broken Arrow Nursing Home last year. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
  • Pet Kangaroo

    Carr suffers from depression and has found solace in Irwin, but local city officials worry that the partially paralyzed therapy pet could become a public safety risk. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
  • Pet Kangaroo

    (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
  • WWII Kangaroos

    Sailors built a baby kangaroo a box to resemble his mother'’s pouch so the little fellow would feel more at home aboard this American fighting ship in the Southwest Pacific on 10 July 1942. Tom, the ship'’s mascot, is said to take an interest in the goings-on. (AP Photo)
  • Kangaroos

    A red kangaroo joey is nursed by an animal keeper at Taronga Zoo in Sydney last year. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
  • Kangaroo Golf

    Two kangaroos watch as Australia's Anthony Summers and his caddy walk past during the first round of the Australian PGA Golf Championship on 24 November 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Tertius Pickard)
  • Kangaroo Golf

    A kangaroo waits on the side of the fairway on the 13th hole as Australia's Scott Hend hits a shot in the background during the first round of the Australian PGA golf Championship held at the Hyatt Regency, Coolum, Australia, in November 2011. (AP Photo/Tertius Pickard)
  • Kangaroos

    Carr says she and her therapy kangaroo, Irwin, are leaving Broken Arrow and moving to McAlester because she was told by animal control that by keeping the disabled kangaroo in her home she was violating city ordinance and will receive fines or he will be seized. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
  • Kangaroo

    Kangaroos play at the Tasmanian Devil Conservation Park last year. (AP Photo/Carrie Osgood)
  • Kangaroo

    Irwin sits in his bean bag chair with his owner. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
  • Kangaroos

    Skippy, a six-year-old red kangaroo, scratches as her baby joey at the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston last March. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
  • Kangaroos

    A baby kangaroo looks out from his mother in the Erfurt zoo, central Germany earlier this year. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
  • Kangaroos

    Joey Levi sits in his mother Olivia's pouch at Blair Drummond Safari Park.

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