Rural Idyll with Cows and Silo

 

Yes, I've been away, and not posting much.

Sorry.

Have this boring slide as compensation.

Bonus - Napoleon Bonaparte has just died.

Car Park (with dirt)

 

Tedious Tuesday, and I started cleaning up this slide image, to address some of the dirt and optical crud from the image.

And then I realised... nah.  It's a very tedious image, and it's unlikely to attract millions of views.

So, here we have it. An imperfect tedious image of a North American car park from 1975.

Bonus - 

Confirmation Sunday

 

As normal, no information on this slide, but as I understand it, Confirmation is when the Church of England confirms that the young ladies of the parish have passed the age at which the Bishop has lustful thoughts about them.

Bonus - Urine Deflectors And Where To Find Them in London

Bonus 2 - Headline that you probably don't have to read beyond.

Where in the world?

 

I wonder where this could be.

Obviously, it could be Norfolk, or Lincolnshire, but .... It is probably The Netherlands.

In fact, I'd suggest that these are probably the Kinderdijk windmills.

Bonus - 

Tedium Intensifies

 

It's Tedious Tuesday, and today's is a doozy

It's a pair of sofas in a red stripey material.

And ....   my gosh. Is there really anyway to interest folk in such a boring slide ?

Bonus - 

A Quiet Corner

I just thought you might like a tranquil relaxed corner of Chez Moi. (OK, possibly Sissinghurst Castle Garden.)

Bonus - the fascinating Bad Luck of the  failed 1949 Invasion of Kinmen,

Patricia goes for a drive.

 

This slide, from July 1960, captures Mrs Patricia van Winkel, as se heads off for a bit of a drive. I personally cannot identify the cars in the image, but they are So Damned American, that it hurts. For extra fun, in the portion of the slide that I had to crop has some grocery prices. Modern readers may weep at "Eggs - 3 Doz - $1.00".

Bonus - The wall that Frank built.

Nymph and Satyr.

 

If you're anything like me, and I know that I am, you'll recognise that brushwork and shadings as being the work of  Pierre Cabanel, which means that this painting is almost certainly Nymphe surprise par un satyre (Nymph Surprised by a Satyr), an 1875 work.

Bonus -  Café Lehmitz and the Photographs of Anders Petersen: A Portrait of Hamburg’s Red-Light District.  Features an image you may recognise if you've heard Tom Waits' Rain Dogs.