Easter Sunday - Bonnets and Church

 It's Easter Sunday, so that means dress the kids up in their finest clobber, with bonnets for the girls, obviously, and off to church for a boring sermon on Jesus and the imminent Communist threat to Bogtown in Idaho.

Bonus - A Disconcertingly Disembodied Robotic Mouth Sings Endless AI-Generated Self-Learning Prayers

Thar She Blows

 

I THINK that this is Old Faithful. the famous geyser in Yellowstone National Park.

But, I could be wrong.

Bonus -  Easter Lamb Cake Fails

Eggy Greetings

 

Yes, technically Easter Eggs are appropriate for Easter Sunday, but 

A. I don't care.

B. Considering the pagan origins of Easter

Bonus - 

At The Market

 

Sorry, I can't stop.

No time to talk.

Gotta keep moving.

Or clowns will eat my face.

Bonus - Clowns

Bonus 2 -

CLOWNS

The Thing

 

Just ... The Thing.

No info on the slide (as usual) except a processing date of 1991. Thanks.

But, I think it's a piece of Seljuk Glass, maybe this one.

More info - The Kubadabad Plate: Islamic Gilded and Enamelled Glass in Context

Bonus - North Korea TV censors Alan Titchmarsh's trousers

The Little Colonists

 

I have a bunch of similar slides in this set...clearly a family vacation, visiting one of the early colonial towns. Georgetown, or Williamsburg, or whatever.

I can only imagine what the costumed host is thinking, especially as this was in the early sixties.

Bonus - So, those kids who torture ants with sun + magnifying glass. What do they do when they grow older?

The Last Snows of Spring

 

It's March, and here in Slideville, it's turned chilly again.

All the more reason for some Schnapps unt some Spongecake.

Bonus - Desperately Seeking The Pickle Sisters

I'll just leave this here, and leave

 

No idea what this is, and I suspect I don't WANT to know what this is.

It's from the Medical Slides box, and ...well. I suppose it could be a Album Cover for an LP by Throbbing Gristle. Maybe.

Bonus - Also on a theme of Yeuch.   Aphex Twin's Windowlicker is 25 years old.

Devils Lake, Wis South End 1956

 It's nice when a slide has a written description, and I'm guessing that Wis is short for Wisconsin.

Devil's Lake is a lake in the South Range of the Baraboo Range, about two miles south of Baraboo, Wisconsin, in Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States. It has no surface outlets, so by some definitions, it is endorheic; however, it possibly drains by underground channels into the Baraboo River, which would make the lake cryptorheic. 

Bonus - Cats that sailed on ships until the mid-20th century to catch rodents had passports signed with their paw prints

Go outside and play with your cardboard box

 

The Seventies were a different time. 

It didn't matter if it was a bright but chilly February, when Uncle Bob visited your mum, you want outside to play with your favourite box.

Bonus - Shock of the old: 10 rotten and repugnant artefacts from dental history

You want Tedious on a Tuesday?

 

You Got It.

First image is what you would see .... as a human. Yup. Very Boring.

Second Version is the same image, as viewed by a Crawshaw's Salamander. That's an odd little amphibian, which uniquely, sees images not in RedYellowBlue, but in MauveWhitePaisleyLemon.

Bonus - How many times must you fold a paper to reach the Moon?

Hotel Cafe Restaurant v. Diepen

 

My Google-Fu might be out, but I suspect that this image is of this place.

  Maybe.

Bonus -   

Ryan, filling the Diving Pool

 

There's quite a few pictures of this pool, in various states of empty/fullness.

This one ... is today's.

Sorry,  I'm not very talkative today - Overnight, my right know seems to have decided to experience extreme pain for any motions.

Bonus -  Remember - There was no CGI 81 years ago... 

Distant Words with the Family

 

One of the delights of this here slide-collecting lark is finding images like this. Just a quick captured moment in a life.

What a great image.

Bonus - 

"Are you 'aving a Giraffe?"

 

Friday is sometimes Zoo Day, here at The Slide Guy.

And these are ....checks notes .... Giraffes.

Bonus - 

Americuh!

Well ... DAM!

 

Nope. No information, and I can't be arsed to make up a story.

Bonus - What Month Is It?

"Beat Girl"

 

This slide from 1964 had a note on it "Me in Waterlow Park".

Not me, as in this blogger, obviously.

This girl certainly looks "beat", so I'm guessing she had a suitably fitting name - Flip or Kath, or Mizzy.

Nice.

Bonus - 

The Escarpment

 

An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that forms as a result of faulting or erosion and separates two relatively level areas having different elevations.

The terms scarp and scarp face are often used interchangeably with escarpment. Some sources differentiate the two terms, with escarpment referring to the margin between two landforms, and scarp referring to a cliff or a steep slope. In this usage an escarpment is a ridge which has a gentle slope on one side and a steep scarp on the other side.

Bonus - Radioactive waste, baby bottles and Spam: the deep ocean has become a dumping ground

Whoa!, I'm Gonna To Ibiza

 

It's been a while since the last "School Holiday At Easter" slide, so here's one from 51 years ago.  The  Easter 1973 Trip to Ibiza."

However, this one looks more like the pre departure, pale skin version of Thora and Margaret.

I've never yet figured out which school it was - so if you recognise any of these girls...please get in touch.

Bonus -

Mokusatsu

School Field Trip to Dove Valley

 

Some lovely girls on a school trip to the Dove Valley, back in 1970. Whether it was for a geography project, or just as a day out .... who know?

In response to very nearly one comment, yesterday's meal out at Seven was fine.  Good food, but a bit noisy for an old fart like me, and a PITA prepubescent waiter who had a sky high opinion of themselves.

Bonus - Security...

Meal Out With "The Gang"

 

Yup, this evening is a meal with the gang. Great.

This image above is NOT an image of us, for so many logical reasons, but I know that the blog followers like to see a vaguely relevant image.

Bonus : Swedish Special Forces

A Boy and his Locomotive

 

The lad?  I'm calling him Simon. He looks like a Simon.

The Locomotive - No info on the slide, but it only took seconds to identify this as 46115 Scots Guardsman (LMS 6115 & BR 46115).

The sky - grey and lifeless.

Simon's Anorak - The Junior Fieldman, by British Home Stores.

Bonus - 

Kiddy Tank

 

or "How we used to play."

Yes, play was a lot more fun in the days before Sonic The Bandicoot, or whatever.

Bonus - Tragic And Mysterious Elephant Burial Ritual Witnessed by Scientists    

The Impossibility of Music in the Mind of a Duck

 

Hopefully I don't have to explain, but Yes, this was a slide with a SEVERE colour cast / fade, and this is just a single RGB channel extracted from the digital image.

Not sure about the duck, to be honest.

Bonus - 

On A Pony Build For Two

 Sorry. Can't talk.

Busy.

Giant Lobsters attacking my Panda Enclosure.

Bonus -

Prime Compo-Face

 

Dappled Shade

 

Not every slide is Crappy, or deserves ridicule.

Bonus - Countries - GDP vs Life Expectancy

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Remodelling the Back Garden

 

Looking forward to Summer, so I've spent the afternoon remodelling the back garden, ready for the Summer Season of Greek Tragedies, and Shakespear comedies, culminating in Wagner's Ring Cycle, features a cast of several.

Bonus - Rubber Band Manufacturing Process

Gardening With Billy Bear

 Yes, it's the most natural thing in the world. Doris (in the Dungarees) visits the allotment with daughter Daisy and Billy The Blue Bear.

LSD is a heck of a drug.

Bonus - Netflix is different now — and there’s no going back