THEY say good things come in threes, but we could never have guessed when we set this week's theme the endless variety of responses it would get.

From frogs to dogs and peacocks to peloton, we've had a torrent of trios in all shapes, sizes and colours.

Who knew, for example, that there was until recently an annual Cairn Terrier fun day at Lewknor?

That is the subject matter of Kim Benson's photo top left, with its three terriers bounding along in some kind of race.

Mike Lester's photo, meanwhile, of three frogs floating in a pond next to a seething mass of spawn raises more questions than it answers about the exact martial relationship of these particular amorous amphibians, but maybe we shouldn't go down that slippery slope...

Several contributors sent in fun photos of threesomes taken at recent Oxfordshire carnivals including Witney and Eynsham.

They were all very good fun but we had to chose one, and narrowed it down to Diane Braggs' photo, below, of the 2016 Eynsham Carnival queen with two of her consorts, who seemed to form the perfect trio.

Jim Jutton's placid portrait of three tree stumps at Thrupp reflected in the Cherwell below added some high-art flare to proceedings as it seemed to channel the spirit of Salvador Dali's painting Swans Reflecting Elephants.

However the winner this week for effort is undoubtedly Ian Marriott.

He shared a series of images, of which the one above is definitely the most successful, of three number threes reflected infinitely in three mirrors.

Ian revealed that he created the entire set-up himself using just numbers and mirror tiles from Hobbycraft, a red towel from Aldi and an 8mm fish-eye lens.

The result is an extraordinary maze of threes.

For next week's challenge we have decided to go with a topical theme and pay tribute to the extraordinary Professor Stephen Hawking.

For that reason, the theme is The Universe.

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