The Bear Necessities

 

That which does not kill you, will make you stronger.

Except bears. Bears will just kill you.

Bonus -  

The Magic of Movies

Black Sabbath - 1963

Slide Number 5700

 

That's not to mean that this is the 5700th slide on here, just the one numbered 5700. There have been gaps and miscounts etc.

But here's Robin, with a rather snazzy snow sled. Marked as "Lido in 1956."

Bonus - Donald Trump Photoshopped In Classic Horror Movies

1st August 1959

 

That date was the only info on the slide, but I'm making a wild stab at a location, based purely upon.... notHIG MUCH.

Panama Canal.

What do you folks think?

Bonus - 

Cadet Captain Bob.

 

One for the ladies, perhaps.

Alas, I suspect that Bob no longer looks like that.

Bonus - The mesmerising beauty of packaging machines. Butter Stick Packer.

The Long Climb Ahead.

 

Early start today - I'm attempting to climb Horsham Hill, the famed mounteering challenge in the Northern Alps of Norfolk.

As you see, the southern face is daunting, and I shall be needing pitons, ice-axe and canoe for some of the traverses.

Bonus - 

Thelma's Hideous Crotch-Spawn

 

I think this is Thelma, from yesterday's post, but seven years later with some ugly child in tow. let's call him Gilbert, named after his Grampa Gilbert.

Bonus - The ethical issues of Killing Baby Hitler

Thelma and Brian - Just engaged

 

Other than a year, there's no info. But, clearly an engagement event. And I'm guessing these must be Thelma and Brian.

Or maybe Mavis and Colin.

Bonus - Fancy heading out to stare at the night sky, and the marvel of The Milky Way.  You need a Dark Sky.

Scenes from a Welsh Suburb - No 49

 

Again, the black border is merely me indicating that this is a Half-Frame slide.

Honestly, I have no evidence that this is in Wales, but the whole box of sl;ides have a feeling of Welsh-ness from the scenery and surroundings.  And it had a faint whiff of Caerphilly Cheese.

Bonus -  Willem Pennings' Balancing Cube.

Building In Progress

 

Some a little bit interesting for Tedious Tuesday.

The subject slide had deteriorated badly over the years, with a strange colour cast and fading. (It's the second "colour" slide.)

So, one trick up my sleeve is to split the image into the three constituent colour images...and the big image is the "blue" part.

Not any more interesting a subject, but slightly less off-puting.

Bonus - Massacre of Elphinstone's Army       In 2013, a writer for The Economist called the retreat "the worst British military disaster until the fall of Singapore exactly a century later."

Brydon was asked upon arrival what happened to the army, to which he answered "I am the army"

Stabiliser Wheels

 

Remember when you were young, Very young, and your first bicycle had a pair of stabilisers (training wheels) until you built up skill and confidence?

Well, it looks like the USAF do the same for young B-52 pilots.

Bonus - Eclipse Day for USA : 

Indeed

Bonus 2 - RIP Clarence "Frogman" Henry

Helen is Surprised

 

Ready for a night out for her husband Edgar's Birthday, Helen was surprised, nay Shocked, to he him stride into the room in his .... Birthday Suit.  I guess The Club they were heading to for the evening wasn't the Country Club.

Bonus - Jesus may have lived, died and been buried in Japan

Waiting For The Exalted One

 

That horrible moment when the charismatic enigma, that you are escorting across the Mid-West, goes missing.

He may have gone off for a prayer, or a belt of whiskey, or a quick knee-trembler behind the Gas Station, but His acolytes just have to wait, and chalk it up to His Mysterious Ways.

Bonus - Restoration is possible: the hunt for Scotland’s ancient wild pinewoods

Big Chonk Cat

 

Now THAT's a big chonky cat.

Bonus - and related

Chonky