Visiting The Ruins

 

"The ruins of what?" you may ask.

I don't know. But, my suspicion is that it may be Masada.

Bonus - Wearable Bean Bag Chair

Ideal for the Office

Time For A Sharp Exit

 

Mischief abounds, pranks have been played, larks-a-plenty have been instigated, and the perpetrators (The McKenzie Boys) make a sharp exit  on water.

Little do the know, that the engine has been filled with water, meaning that very soon, they'll be adrift upon Lake O'Doom, and it's famous school of freshwater crocodiles.

Bonus - 

Picnic and a Paddle

 

FINALLY, sunshine has returned to The Shire at a weekend, so today will be a good picnic day.

Like Maureen , backing in 1967, and her trip to Cooper's Creek. Quite why she feels the need to cover her hoo-hah with a hat, is unknown.  Maybe a masonic thing.

Bonus - The world of early recreational vehicles

The Flatulent Cleric

 

Little known fact.

In a survey of the major religions in 1998, the priests of the Greek Orthodox Church were found to be the most flatulent.

Whether that is due to diet or genetics needs further investigation.

This slide was labelled as Priest at Negades

Bonus - 

R.I.P. Donal Sutherland.

Name That Plane

 

It the midst of a large box of typically touristy slide, this slide appeared.

How Exotic!

Can you identify it?

If you muttered "bone", you're on the right track. 

Curious that this bomber was designed to replace the B-52, but the B-52 will probably outlast it.  Nice.

Bonus - Speaking of bones... Transi de René de Chalon

"And they sailed off without us!"

 

I can imagine the front page story in the Esher and Surbiton Gazette.

"Our Holiday Hell.

Mr and Mrs Edwin Falconbridge told the Gazette of the disappointment when, on their annual holiday cruise round the Bahamas, they were callously left behind on the harbour quay when a foreign er pretending to be the Captain, sailed off from Jamaica, just because they were 75 minutes late from shore excursion."

This seems to be the "SS Queen of Bermuda",  She had an interesting life, including the ship having the distinction of being the only ocean liner to have sailed with one, two and three funnels.

Bonus - One way to fill a container with wheat

Brutalist and the Beach

 

Man!

What a contrast.  The gentle waves lapping on a golden beach, next to a neo-brutalist hotel.

My limited research suggest it might be The Sheraton, at Praia do Vidigal, Rio de Janeiro.

Bonus - When vinyl LPs came back, so did the bootleggers and scammers

Unseasonable weather

 

It's June, but it feels more like April. A chill in the air, and the occasional downpour.

Just like the downpour that swept this tree into the River Trent at Newark.

Bonus - Happy Fathers day

Bonus 2 - 

The Anxious Debutantes

 

From my limited knowledge of young ladies' fashion history, the outfits for these two Southern Belles looks late fifties /Early Sixties.

But what do I know?

I do know that from their facial expressions....something is wrong.  A broken suspender belt?

Bonus - How World War II led to the invention of super glue

Surbiton Ladies Wine Club

 

The club started as a way that the wives could develop an appreciation of the finer things in life.

It soon developed into a chance to get sloshed, and attempt to charm that pants of the sous chef.

Bonus - Whitest Kids U' Know - Apollo 24

It's a Bus !!!!!!

 

Sorry, I'm a bit distracted this evening.

Bonus - 

This Counts As A Win.

Brrrrr It's a bit chilly

 

Today is June 11th. 

In the Northern Hemisphere.

Less than two weeks before the Summer Solstice.

And it is Blooming Freezing.

Frost is forecast in Scotland.. 

Bonus - Blue Desert

Qesm Sharm Ash Sheikh, Egypt

"Is This Your Sanderling?"

 

I don't have to explain, do I?

Bonus - 

A Focus Group of Photographers

 

I presume that that is the correct term for a gathering of snappers.

Looks like a day out for the East Finchley Retired Teachers Photography and Real Ale Club.

Bonus - Banana fight in Pennsylvania gas station leads to charges for employee

Bonus 2 - Live Breaking news 

 

An Arboreal Avenue Cathedral

 

There's probably a better word for it, but this avenue of trees does remind me of a cathedral.

No info on the slide, obviously, but the lack of a formal road up this avenue does seem rather unusual. Perhaps one of you readers may be able to enlighten me.

As a pure guess, I wonder if it might be in Hidcote Manor Gardens... but purely a guess.

Bonus - 25 Minutes of Demolition Videos

We Have A Match

 

Yep.

Dad-Quality puns.

Bonus - 

Groan

A Rose By Any Other Name

 

...would smell as sweet.

 "Not if you called 'em stench blossoms.

Or crap weeds.

I'd sure hate to get a dozen crap weeds for Valentine's Day.

I'd rather have candy. Not if they were called scum drops."

Yup, Tedious Tuesday, Flowers and Simpsons. 

Bonus - Swirling flight of a seabird caught in a huge typhoon high over mainland Japan

Will There Be Birthday Cake?

 

No, it's not my birthday today. You missed that by over a week.

However, today does see the the commemorative visit to El Swanky Nosh-Shop with "The Gang" for a Sunday Lunch. And, maybe there will be cake.

Bonus - The USA has granted itself permission to invade The Netherlands if it needs to rescue a US Citizen from the jaws of Justice. American Service-Members' Protection Act

Shocked by the Sandwiches

 

The scene is undoubted the Dronfield Parish of St Fittick's Church, welcoming event for the new vicar, and Edith Hackthorn's is shocked to find out how much cheese is in the Cheese and Radish Triangles.

Frank Hudson, on the right, tackles the mini-sausage-rolls.

Bonus - Umm, what about Donald Trump meeting Zig and Zag?