And the band played Happy Birthday

 

Nothing like a bit of improvised truck-bed trad-jazz to enliven the mood.

Incidentally, today is the 62nd birthday for two Olympic Gold Medallists : Liz McColgan and Adrian Moorhouse

Bonus - The Story of Colours

Baby Girl

 

AI guesses 

This image shows a vintage photograph of a child smiling while sitting on a foldable outdoor chair. The style of the white frilled dress and the background setting suggest the photograph was taken in the 1950s or 1960s.

The child is wearing white socks and white shoes, a common children's fashion style for that era. The photo appears to be a personal snapshot or family photograph.

Reality - Yup. Image is from April 1962.

Bonus - 

The Duchess and The Dog

 

It might be nothing, but this set of slides does feature a bunch of slides from Chatsworth House and other Derbyshire attractions.  And some from a Mobile Home on some moorland.

And this lady does have an aristocratic bearing...and does look a bit like Debs, The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire   .

So, I'm NOT saying it is...but .... I have made a career out of being wrong.

Bonus -  Underwater Snow Exists All Over The Globe – And Beyond

( Not ) The Chelsea Flower Show

 

This week may be the Chelsea Flower Show at ...(checks)... Chelsea, but this image doesn't appear to be from there.

So, it COULD be the Saffron Walden Women's Institute's Ornamental Garden...but ...I dunno.

Bonus - https://reformornot.uk

Sky, Sea, Bloke, Sand, Log

 

The only remotely interesting thing about this slide is that the bloke's name is Gaylord.

Maybe.

Bonus - 

Roofless and Awesome

 

This slide is probably of the interior ruins of Tintern Abbey in Monmouthshire, Wales.

• Historic Significance: The abbey was founded in 1131 by Cistercian monks and became a prominent Gothic masterpiece.
• Dissolution: The abbey fell into ruins following the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII in the 16th century.
• Cultural Legacy: The ruins inspired famous artistic works, including the 1798 poem "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" by William Wordsworth.
• Yay for AI

Bonus - America Made Its Most Toxic Lake. Now We Need What's Inside.

Geoff's Defiant Pose

 Remembering his catwalk model training, Geoff struck a pose.

Bonus - 

I wonder where this is...

 

Ah.   Bath.   In the city of Bath.

Nice.

Bonus : BREAKING: Reform UK Candidates Lambast the State of.... Reform UK Candidates

The Mysterious Girl

 

Alas, this was a very under-exposed slide, so getting any sort of image out of it was difficult.

So, why did the photographer keep this one?

There's a clue written on the slide - "1964 Me in Waterlow Park".

We photographers didn't take many self-portraits back in the days of  35mm slides.  Nowadays, with digital images, it's an epidemic.

Bonus - 

The Long Gallery

 

This was an Ektachrome slide that suffered from extreme colour deterioration,  giving it a heavy red cast. So, this images is just the blue component.

According to the slide, this was Parham Park, Sussex and the Long Gallery. Fare enough.

n architecture, a long gallery is a long, narrow room, often with a high ceiling. In Britain, long galleries were popular in Elizabethan and Jacobean houses. They were normally placed on the highest reception floor — the uppermost level designed for entertaining guests (usually above the hall and other ground floor rooms) — of English country houses, usually running along a side of the house, with windows on one side and at the ends giving views, and doors to other rooms on the other. They served several purposes, and were perhaps especially used by the women of the family. They were used for entertaining guests (probably only the more favoured ones), for taking exercise in the form of walking when the weather was inclement, for displaying art collections, especially portraits of the family and royalty, and acting as a corridor.

Bonus - 

What ARE the doing behind that fence?

 

Today's Tedious Tuesday slide might be more mysterious than tedious.

They might be building a road, but they could be mixing the world biggest pancake mix.

Interesting (-iah.)

Bonus - 

Still Not In Kansas

 

OK, I'm making a leap of logic here - It doesn't LOOK like Kansas, and there are no tornadoes / Totos in sight.

The slide dates from 1987, but it it really a timeless image.

Bonus - Fascinating Tales from The London Dead

I'm Back

 

Dam!

Well, clearly my week away attempting mediate between Trump and Iran was fruitless, so I'm back. And how better to mark that with this mysterious, unlabelled slide.

However ... This is a view of the Hoover Dam, a concrete arch dam located on the border between Arizona and Nevada.The dam, constructed between 1930 and 1936, impounds the Colorado River to form Lake Mead, one of the largest artificial lakes in the world.The structure is 726 feet (221 meters) high and 1,244 feet (379 meters) long, serving purposes such as flood control, hydroelectric power generation, and agricultural irrigation.