Feels like Spring has Arrived

 

Last day of April, and finally, it's beginning to feen like spring has arrived at Chateau Slideguy.

This slide seems to echo how I feel.  Trees not yet in leaf, but blue skies and sunshine. Yay.

 Slide is labelled "Pandy  Henllan", so some where in Clwyd, or similar vowel desert area.

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The Welcome Committee

 

"Welcome to Dad's Garden "

Bonus - Half of Vinyl Buyers in the US Don’t Have a Record Player

"When Our Carol Got Married..."

 

"ay, she looked all reet.

That Norman Wickerstaff turned out to be a bit of a wet blanket.  After the divorce, he went off to share a flat with a Hairdresser from Leeds, if you know what I mean."

Bonus - It’s illegal to burn a body in a floating boat anywhere in the U.S., and a single town in Colorado is the only place in the country where you can legally burn a corpse on a dry-land funeral pyres. 

The popular conception of what are commonly called “Viking” funerals – a flaming longship – aren’t historically accurate anyway […] “They (Vikings) were more likely to drag the boat ashore and burn it on dry land with the chieftain’s body and his possessions inside, or just bury the entire boat without setting it on fire,” Pray told Cowboy State Daily.

Soffit of Cornice

 

People make slides of the oddest things.

Bonus - The trailer park vs the millionaire: Why Mar-A-Lago’s neighbours are refusing to sell for $500m

A Little Tug, Mrs Mac

 

What can I say about this slide - A little tug-boat, and on closer examination, it appears to be called Mrs Mac.

So, obviously, I hie thee to www.tugboatinformation.com (I bet you think I made that up) were it has more info of that wee boat. 

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A Slide So Tedious...

 

...that even posting it upside-down doesn't make it any more interesting.

Bonus - Whereas, when it happens with a Mondrian...

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At the end of the day ....

 

...there are some very very nice slides in my collection.

Circumstantial evidence suggest that this is in the Lake District, and some time in 1968. But, I could be wrong.

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The Days Before Quadcopter Drones

 

Back in 1980, radio-controls model planes were very much the domain of geeks and obsessives.  Nowadays, any little scrote can fly their drone, spying on neighbours and annoying the NIMBYs.

Progress.

This slide is marked 1980, Les and Wynne with Gangster 52. 

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The Lord's Prayer

 

In the midst of a box of slides marked as "Halley's Comet and Family History" was ... this.

I'd be surprised if it was part of the Halley's Commet discussion.

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Mmmmm Beef Dripping

Resisting The Urge

 

Deputy Councilor Marge Broomfield resisting the urge to strip off her sensible twinset, and go skinny-dipping in Ogbrook Reservoir.

Very sensible.

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Mewrythmics

From The Kitten Covers

Statue of a Pigeon on a Man on a Horse.

 

Probably some famous pigeon who won a battle, or something, but I don't recognise him.

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Look. David's On The Telly

 

Tho' to be honest, it's a small tourist repro of Michelangelo's statue of David in Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze. (Florence).

Actually on the TV screen is what seems like an advert for a MIL Marquis Farm Tractor Front Loader.  My all-time third favourite tractor front-loader attachment.

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The Gym Bunny

 

Views of this Blog have been slipping lately. (No exact numbers, but under 200,000 view per day!) so let's try and boost the numbers with a picture from one of the "request access from the librarian" sets.

A stereotypical model Gym-Bunny. Bethany, I think  Nice.

Lovely "Big Hair", and I bet that she's wearing leg-warmers as well.

Bonus - Mystery Girl of 1947

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The ffowkes Family

 

And ffeatured today, the ffowkes ffamily.  Ffrom the lefft, ffiona ffowkes, ffrederick ffowkes, fferdinand ffowkes, and phphillip ffowkes.

Oh. The hounds ?  Rex and Major. Nothing stupid about the doggos' names.

Bonus. Another fun headline...New Zealand goose: How one blind bisexual bird became an icon

This Is The Future

 

... as we envisaged it in the past.

Oh, a clean world of elevators and concrete and steel.

Simultaneously better and worse that what we actually ended up with.

Bonus - Honesty

You're 'aving a Giraffe

 

...is inauthentic Cockney Rhyming Slang for "You're 'aving a laugh". An expression of disbelief, in response to outlandish statement.

The slide, however, is a highlight from a box of "American Zoos" slides. This compound is a vast improvement from the literal cages that some exhibits are confined to.

Bonus - Coincidentally, my trawl of random images netted two other giraffe pics this month.

Best Job Ever?

Terminal Care

The Grey Skies of Easter

 

So, that's it.

Easter 2023 is past.

Patches of sunshine, ending with grey clouds, hailstorms, thunder and chilly winds.

Must be a metaphor for life.

Bonus - Preserving the Sunset Editorial Sound Effects Library from the USC Archive. (With the original recording of The Wilhelm Scream.)

Mrs Murphy, Mrs O'Keef and a Spondulon-87 Robot

 

One for you Star Wars fans today.

Mrs Euphemia Murphy and Mrs Harriet O'Keefe, keep their distance from a prototype Spondulon-87 Gate-Guard Robot, as seen  when Darth Maul returns to Nabboo, in Star Wars - The Phantom Empire.

Euphemia and Harriet were First Aiders for that movie.

Bonus - Headline you didn't expect to see at Easter. "Dalai Lama apologises after kissing boy and asking him to ‘suck his tongue"

Bonus 2 - Further annoying the Christians...

The True Meaning of Easter

 

Yes, the true meaning. Kids, Eggs and crappy Hummel Figurines.

Bonus - The other True Meaning of Easter

Debbie on a Donkey

 

What could be more appropriate for Easter Saturday?

Debbie Dunward on Dopey the Donkey, at Dunsford Down.

Bonus - The History of Alaska’s Giant Rhubarb

Salt Creek Bridge

 

Any day is a good day to visit the Salt Creek Bridge, near Muskingum, Ohio. but Good Friday?   < Chef's Kiss>

Actually, this slide is dated (processed) October 1962, and seems to depict some sort of organised visit to the area. No idea why. The bridge in the background doesn't seem that interesting....and not even a covered bridge.

More info here and yes, I know that the interesting bridge is nearby.

Bonus - To mark the passing of Ryuichi Sakamaoto

Thank You for Choosing To Travel With...

 Diego Garcia's Super Mega-Luxury First Class AutoBus Experience.

The only bus service in Santa Garnita that hasn't been convicted of grave-robbery.

Bonus -  Oh, Nostalgia.

I remember buying this on 7" vinyl from Bruce Millers, on Loch Street, Aberdeen.

Statue of some dude.

 

From a monumentally dull set of slides, marked "Cultural Trips To Europe".  And it was full of art, and architecture, and scenery and ... yawn.

Before you start decoding the clues in this sculpture, let me just say "Achilles Innocenzo Ferito Fraccaroli 1805-82 Milan "  was written on the slide.   So that answers the obvious question.

Bonus - sorry. can't be bothered

By The Dawn's Gentle Light .... The Gasometer

 

A structure that is rapidly being lost from the modern skyline. The Gasometer.

Bonus - Donald Trump might be like Andy Dufresne in Shawshank

Maybe...

And The Bride Wore ... Lemon

 

Been a while since the last visit to a New York Bridal Fashion Show of 1970, so here we have Melody wearing a Yellow Wedding Dress.

Really?  Yellow ?    Why?

Bonus - How Marbles Are Made.

Just a Country Girl

 

...out for a spin on her tractor.

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