Hey, let's try that Japanese Restaurant on Fifth and Hawthorn

 

Seems surprisingly adventurous for Seventies Suburban America,.

Bonus : Six chances to guess a capital city

Oh Look. Another Church.

 

It seems a pity to post this on Tedious Tuesday, because it does look like quite an impressive building.

But, these sort of slide are basically boring,. An interesting church on a day coach-trip to mumblety-mumble.  Let's take a picture to bore the neighbours with, but not have any information of where and when.

OK, in this case, it might be St. George's Basilica - Prague Castle.  Image  StreetView

Bonus - 

Metameor?

 

"Metameor" was written on the slide, as best as I can judge...but that turns up zilch on Google.

The image - might shows the Ksar Ouled Soltane, a fortified granary located in southern Tunisia. 

Historical Purpose: Built by the Amazigh people in the 15th century, these structures served as fortified storage spaces called ghorfas for grain and dates. 

Pop Culture: It gained international fame as a filming location for the slave quarters of Mos Espa in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. 

The slide's odd colour cast - unknown. Possible a slight light-leak.

The woman - You've guessed it, unknown. But she seems to be carrying a Swann Hellenic (WF & RK SWAN LTD LONDON) travel bag.

Bonus Fact - Ksar Ouled Soltane is located in the town of Soltane, which is south of Tataouine. Hmm, sounds familiar. 

Bonus - 

Last Day of the Winter Olympics

 

Yes, final day at the Milan 2026 Winter Olympics.

And a chance to see the remarkable training facility that the Chinese Winter Sports Department built in preparation for the event/ This image above is of the facility in Yunnaan, and features at 91% scale model of San Ciascian, the Italian village considered most suitable for the chinese athletes. The facility was built inside a disused airship hangar, and that mountain in the background....is a painted backdrop.  Rather than snow, that's shredded iMac casings. Recycling !

Bonus -  

A Springtime Wedding

 

Wedding outfits are often immune to the whims of fashions. The bride's dress is timeless and classic, and the Father Of The Bride wears a fairly standard three-piece suit.

But velvet Bridesmaids' dresses, and the guest with an oversize black bow tie. It could only be the Seventies.  1977, to be precise.  No punk fashions for these church-goers, but later that evening...?

Bonus - Well, that is unique. Underwater Military Museum-Aqaba

The snows are melting

 

As we head towards March, the threat of snow s receding. So, a  slightly appropriate slide.

Nice.

Bonus- selective attention test

Just Hanging About with Pals

 T'was a bit of a bleached washed out slide, but with a bit of jiggery pokery, it's sort of acceptable.

From Sept 1963, and I remember playground equipment that looked like this. Probably unacceptable to modern Health and Safety.

Bonus - Happy Birthday Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

Nice Scenery and Bridge.

Makes a change from the cold and wet of current Britain.

This image shows the Puente de San Martín (St. Martin's Bridge), a historic medieval bridge spanning the Tagus River in Toledo, Spain. 

Constructed in the late 14th century, the bridge features five prominent arches, with the largest central arch spanning 40 meters. It was built to provide access to the old town from the western side and is fortified with defensive towers on both ends. 

A popular legend tells that the architect's wife secretly set fire to the scaffolding to hide a structural miscalculation before the inauguration, allowing it to be rebuilt stronger. 

Bonus - It hasn't changed much

Bonus 2 - My neighbourhood barber was just arrested for selling drugs.

I was a customer for seven years.

I never knew he was a barber.

 

Far from the madding crowd

 

No info on this slide, but it does look like the foothills of the Himalayas / Hindu Kush / basically "Foreign".

There's something of interest on the slopes - looks like white rocks arranged to spell something, but the slide resolution is too poor to read it.

All in all, quite a dull slide.

Bonus - there's a place in Yellowstone Park where you could theoretically get away with murder due to a constitutional loophole discovered by a law professor in 2005

Perfect for Soaring

 

With the 2026 Winter Olympics in full swing, today's slide harks back to 1979, and a sight/site that appears to be Lake Placid in NY.

Or maybe it isn't.

But, probably the ski-jumping venue.

Bonus - People are weird. ‘Penisgate’ at the Olympics: why inject acid into your penis, and what are the health risks?

The Impossibility of Ecstasy in the Mind of Moira

 

Performance art time. This is Damian Hirst's debut art piece "The Impossibility of Ecstasy in the Mind of Moira". This features Bunty (Left) and Moira (Right" listening to Gene Pitney singing The Star Spangled Banner, and taking a pill of E every 26 minutes, until Thursday.

While Damian didn't win the Turner Prize for this, it did bring patronage from Potter's Pork Pies of Barnsley.

Bonus - 

Not Norfolk

 

No info on the slide, but in my opinion, this could be  the summit of Mount Sinai, also known as Gabal Musa, in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt.

Maybe near here

Bonus - Poulsbo woman's home overrun by over 100 raccoons after 3 decades of feeding them

We're not in Kansas, Toto

 

'cos that sure ain't a Kansasian Hefferlump.

Bonus - Did you hear about the vampire who was going blind?

He had dracular degeneration.