Is It Baseball Season ?

 

I know that NFL / American Football (a.k.a. Hand Egg) is starting soon, but Baseball / Rounders.... I dunno.

Bonus - News that you did not need.

Bonus 2 - "I don't like my neighbour. Each night I walked my dog down our street, I paused outside their house and turned their TV off through their front window with our spare universal remote. One afternoon I came home to find their TV out by the bins. We now have a new bedroom TV"

A Sunday Out at the Park

Sunday Afternoon.

Great for just lazing about. Great for heading off to the park, and riding the open wagons on the miniature railway.

Great.

Bonus - from One to One Hundred

 

Happy Birthday America

 

250 years old today.

Congratulations

Bonus - 48 Pictures from American History.

Baby in Fresh Air

 As the UK heads towards "Phew, What A Scorcher" territory, let's turn back to 1966 and a wee babby enjoying the fresh air.

Bonus - 2 arrested after detective finds drugs in bag labeled ‘definitely not a bag full of drugs,’ sheriff says

 

A Return to High Bank

 

After a stupendous post bag of almost one letter asking for more from High Bank,  I've had a delve into the collection, and turned up ... this.

It was labelled as "High Bank Spring 1966", so ... gasp... one year on from the previous daffodils picture.

Nice.

Still don't know where it is.

Bonus - Nature festival mixed up with nudist event

Winter Fun

 

Still snowy here in Slideland.  

More semi-thawed and thick re-freeze than light powdery snow, but pretty in places.

Bonus - 

After the Party

 

As the New Year Party winds down, Mrs Shenkman chats with her husband and they start to unravel, who, what when and why of their infidelities. 

The recriminations would last until Easter.

Bonus - The Web Design Archive

Happy New Year (Again)

 

Yes, another new year, and another slide from the "New Years Eve 1966" set, and I'm still not sure if they mean 31/12/1965 or 31/12/1966.

Even worse, the streamers have been thrown, and there is much dancing, drinking and snogging, so this image could be 1/1/66 or 1/1/67.  

Isn't life complex.

A Set of Children for Christmas

 

Imagine your surprise if you woke up and found this set of ankle-biters under your tree. Yeuch.

I mean, they may look cute, but ... No.

As usual, it's the small details that I notice:

• The kids seem to be consuming Bugles. 
• Must be a classy Christmas Day meal, they have a genuine Heinz Ketchup Bottle on the table

Bonus  :  Friends - Skip Intro

This is how life was

 

...in the aspirational homes of the mid sixties.

What's interesting (amongst so many thoughts) is the TV Dinner tray and stand, but no TV. Weird.

Bonus - 

Cherry Blossom

 

Sounds like the name of an OnlyFans artiste, but no. Flowering Cherry.  A tree or bush.

And quite a tedious picture of one.

Bonus - 

Actually, Donnie, we don't.

Bonus 2 - Actually, Donnie...

Eric The Smug

 

Eric, in his stupid sportscoat, posed with that daft pipe of his, at the white cliffs of Dover.

It would serve him right if the cliff would crumble and ...oh ... ahhhh... right, let's just quietly walk away.

Bonus - At dinner, my frustrated date said, “so napping and sitting around are seriously your only hobbies?? You told me that you were interesting!”

“No, no,” I corrected, “I said that I was into resting.”

Bonus 2 - 

Yes, more

The Time Is Still Not Right

 

I have previously mentioned The Bonetti Brothers, and have been itching to tell more of their history.

However, after last time, I awoke the next day to find the head of a lettuce in my bed...clearly a warning.

So... I shall stay Shtumm.

Bonus -  RIP Sam Moore

After the Party...

 

...The Tidy-Up.

First day back at work ... gosh, that was fun. ("Not!")

Bonus - The year 46 BC lasted for 445 days.

Bonus 2 - 

Management !!

Another Orbit of The Sun

 

Happy New Year.

May 2025 not be the shitshow that we all fear...

Bonus : 

Skansen - 75 years

 

In commemoration of last night's visit to Nottingham to see GOAT (a Swedish Psycho-Voodoo group....honestly), this slide seems slightly appropriate.

No details on slide, but clearly from the 75th Anniversary Celebrations for Skansen. That is the oldest open-air museum and zoo in Sweden located on the island Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden. It was opened on 11 October 1891 by Artur Hazelius (1833–1901) to show the way of life in the different parts of Sweden before the industrial era.

Bonus :

Name That Chateau

 

This was a rather under-exposed slide from 1966, so I've given it a slight lightening, and thought I'd have a bit of fun with you, dear reader.

But it is clearly Castello di Frederiksborg, in sunny Denmark.

So, not really a challenge. 

Bonus - Trump is back. :-(

Bonus 2 - When you stare into the abyss

Weekend Trip to the Graveyard

 

Admittedly, it's probably a church wedding, and just a pic while waiting for the bride, but... Where's the fun in that.

Bonus - Puppy Love

Bonus 2 - Cracking open a 117-year-old Antarctic milk time capsule

Cadet Captain Bob.

 

One for the ladies, perhaps.

Alas, I suspect that Bob no longer looks like that.

Bonus - The mesmerising beauty of packaging machines. Butter Stick Packer.

Well ... DAM!

 

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

Bonus - What Month Is It?