An unusual View

 

On this St Andrew's Day (hint) you might be surprised by this view of a famous location.

It includes part of the famous feature, but .... some might struggle

I like this view. 

Bonus - 

Beach. With people.

 

Time for a Tedious Tuesday slide.

This.... almost painterly in its simplistic, and unfocussed form.

In fact....

This might actually sell as Wall Art

Bonus : From Kurt to Elvis, JFK and more, what movies did stars see just before they died?

"The Pigeons Followed Me From Norwich to Nepal."

 

I think the title explains the slide well enough.

Norfolk pigeons, loyally following their master around the world.#

Bonus - 

It's the natural way...

Off-Duty Secret Agents

 

From the hidden records, deep in the vaults of MI4, the now-disbanded Department of Secret Naughtieness, we have this slide of Agent Garbo, Agent Bicycle and Agent Potato, off-duty after Operation Hat-Stand.

I can say no more.

Bonus - 

The Spawn of Satan

 

Sorry, That should read The Spawn of Stan. 

That's Henry, the son of proud dad Mr Stan Featherstonehaugh.(pronounced Fanshaw).

They deserve each other.

Bonus -  Thanksgiving Horror 

Black Friday Sale

 

Some will say that it's another meaningless import from America. The USA doesn't do Thanksgiving, so the "Hit The Sales" event on the day after makes no sense.

But, here we have a Church Ladies Black Friday Event from November 1969. And a cornucopia of knitted shite.

Bonus - The problems of a Big Butt.

T'was sixty Years Ago Today...

 ...that Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated John F Kennedy

This, as is tradition, is an image of JFK's temporary grave. 

Bonus - again, predictably, Destroy All Monsters    

Western Union Intrafax

 

Philosophy Time.

Can a slide be simultaneously tedious and interesting?

Exhibit A. Not a clue why this slide was taken. Also, the slide has faded significantly, such that a monochrome version is the best image.

But, there in the centre...wassizzit?

It's a western Union Intrafax. An early facsimile transmitted...and there's not much on the interweb about them....but Page 73 of this is useful.

Bonus : Will Cats Eat You If You Die in Your Home?

Camping it up in Mid Wales

 

In the days before dayglo, lightweight, tensioned-hoop geodesic dome tents (or whatever) this was a typical campsite set up. And much nicer it was too. 

OK, I may be getting all "Back in my day..." fuddy duddy, but that is my opinion.

Bonus - Irn Bru at it again...

Madeleine and Buster

 

Sorry. Just using a hammer to get a "new" computer up and running. Dammit.

Bonus - 

Weekend Market

 

Having just done my weekly shop in another identikit warehouse supermarket, this slide made me smile. Of course we all hanker for the fresh produce of a local market, but ... it's easier to support Tesco/Asda/Sainsburys etc. Sigh.

Bonus - Electric mountain: the power station that shows the beauty of infrastructure

Meanwhile, in Trondheim...

 

No info on this slide, but I have a feeling it could be Trondheim in Norway.

The palm trees were originally a concern, but when I realised that these ones were merely painted plaster props from the Norwegian Film "Amundsen in Antigua", I realised I was right.

Bonus - 

Good Boy

The Casual Gardener

 

After the Solemn Sailor, we cheer things up today with The Casul Gardener.

Alice, here shown in June 1962, is a casual gardener, who enjoys growing medical hemp, and was the innovator who first used Maxwell House Coffee Cans to grow Hemlock in.

Nice.

Bonus - How a doctor’s two-decade quest to grow the penis is leaving some men desperate and disfigured

The Solemn Sailor

 

This be Brian.

Brian Schlepper or Boise Idaho.

And he's a bit solemn because he's not sailing the Seven Seas... due to being in Boise, Adaho.

Bonus - 

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

And Spot, The Gnome

 

I have it very good authority, that that gnome was christened "Spot".

Tedious slide, from the "Ode for an Ode" set. 

Bonus - 

Is That Poly Styrene?

 

I scanned this slide, this weekend, and my first thought was...

• The Girl,
• The Location,
• The Pose, 
• The Hat....

Is that Poly Styrene, the famed front girl for X-Ray Spex???

Alas, it cannae Be.  The slide dates to 1963, when  Marianne Joan Elliott-Said would have been six.

Bonus - The Day The World Turned Day-Glo

Bonus 2 - The man on the cover of Led Zeppelin IV has been identified.

Remembrance Sunday

 

Armistice Day

 

Not in Kansas anymore

 

Unless it's the region of Kansas known as "Little Thailand".

Or maybe the region of Thailand known as "Little Kansas".

Bonus - The World's Biggest Prawn

The Craftsman 25" Lawn Sweeper

 

Life is better with a Craftsman 25" Lawn Sweeper, especilly if you have a shootload of autumn leaves to collect from your lawn.

Bonus - 

Birds or caterpillar ?

The Duct-Tape B-17

 

Hmmm.

How rare.

It appears to be a scale model of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, with a skin fashioned from Duct Tape. Or, being an aeroplane, Speed-Tape.

How curious.

Bonus 1 - Slim Gaillard - B-19

Bonus 2 - 

Just a Souvenir...

 

Just a hideously dull souvenir of a safari trip to ...somewhere.

Why, people, WHY?

Bonus - Animals in space

Bonus 2 - 

Thru' Your Mind

Edna's Luminous Talons

 

This slide was underexposed when I looked at it.  Massively underexposed.

But with some PSP know-how, I've salvaged some sort of image, and am now wondering if luminous fingernails (like the pink-clad Edna's) might be a distinguishing sign of the undead.

Hmmmmm

Bonus - 

Waiting For The Fireworks

 

Guy Fawkes Night here in the UK.  And the crowds are beginning to assemble, in anticipation of a truly awesome firework display.

Bonus - 

Dinner with The Vicar

 

I'm looking forward to a meal out with "The Gang" tonight. Just a small local restaurant, and nothing as fancy as this lot - No Hats are likely to be deployed by the ladies.

Bonus : Enya + Vic Reeves

Bonus 2 : Noel Edmunds.  Seriously odd down under

Meet The Bird

 

The cheeky chappy in the snazzy shirt and cardigan combo is Lawrence "Larry"

The cutie in the snow white jacket is Marlena.

The Bird?  Captain Pickle. No-one knew the origin of the name, but it suited him.

Bonus - When even the vending machine gods are against you.

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Transfixed by Television.

 

A historic moment here, from 1958.

Mrs Brenda Hitchcock, seems a working television for teh first time, and is utterly transfixed by the moving image on screen.

Bonus Thought :Hippos can swim and run faster than humans. What does this mean?

The bicycle is the only way to beat then in a triathlon.

The Happy Engaged Couple

 

Ah yes.   I recognise these guys.

The not-so-happy guys from here, and here, and indeed here.

I wonder what happened to them...

Bonus - 

Three...