Jonathan Meades's tongue-in-cheek postcards - in pictures

Avenue Parmentier, Paris 11éme. Henri Launay is an octogenarian doll doctor who loves his work Photograph: Jonathan Meades

Liisi is a major star of Estonian reality TV. She has her own chain of grooming and pelmeni bars. Her weekly column in Årileht is among the most widely read in Tallinn Photograph: Jonathan Meades

Lunchtime on a Baltic cruise vessel. The moment, then, to retire to a picnic in one's cabin and so avoid norovirus, diarrhoea, plague, purple fever Photograph: Jonathan Meades

Lucien Favreau (1912-1990) turned from agriculture to borderline psychotic sculpture in the last 25 years of his life. His work is preserved at his smallholding near Chalais in Charente Photograph: Jonathan Meades

Double monster goes shopping for kit Photograph: Jonathan Meades

Hulks at Heybridge Basin near Maldon. A greengrocer here pioneered the redundant apostrophe year's before anyone else in 1970 Photograph: Jonathan Meades

Essex by night. The NFU has no statistics about the proportion of its members who enjoy a loving relationship with livestock Photograph: Jonathan Meades

'Self-portrait? A child of six could have done it.' 'Indeed. Yes. But a child of six who looked like that ...' Photograph: Jonathan Meades

Latvian beach life. Saulkrasti Photograph: Jonathan Meades

Detail from the title sequence of Baby Trawl, a forthcoming reality TV show in which caring celebrities Sally Ber-Cow, Ann Spackman, Richard Bacon and Gregg Wallace compete to adopt the most disadvantaged, most multiply disabled, most gravely diseased Third World baby money can buy and give it a life of Fairtrade luxury in one of London's most prestigious postcodes. The show enjoys the Organic Seal of Bono Approval Photograph: Jonathan Meades

Atlanticism in action on the Vendée coast Photograph: Jonathan Meades

'On the night of my death I shall discover that the 72 virgins have been devenustated, that Paradise is the name of a street, that the Land of Milk and Honey is a rip-off eco-retailer which organicises potatoes by impasting them with compost.' Erskine Garn, Plagiarisms Photograph: Jonathan Meades

L'île-de France, au dela du periph. Keep car doors locked. Do not photograph from any closer than this. Gangs are formed according to locality rather than along racial groupings Photograph: Jonathan Meades

Limpopo Daze is an acknowledged Liddist masterpiece currently in the ownership of Stafford Prance OBE, lead guitarist of Moist Groin and High Sheriff of Essex Photograph: Jonathan Meades

Troyes, the factory shopping centre of France. The railway station has been the site of three suicides by shoppers who had travelled great distances only to find that the bargain casserole/waistcoat/puppy was no longer in stock Photograph: Jonathan Meades