Yotting (spelled "Yachting")

 

One of the strangest spellings in the English language, but ... whatever.

Looks like a decent way to cool down in this heatwave.

Bonus - Today, 67 years ago, Quake Lake formed.

Streetwalking to Hillwalking.

 

After 45 years of walking the streets in the red light district of Stenhousemuir, Lorna needed a change. "I'm tired to stretching my legs just to earn a few shillings."

So, Lorna then took up hill-walking, meaning she stretches her legs for free now.

And next year, she hopes to bag her first Munro.

Bonus - although potatoes alone do not provide complete nutrition, you can survive for years on a diet of nothing but potatoes and buttermilk.

Roadworks Ahead

 

Today's Tedious Tuesday slide is from 1968, and seems to be from China. And it's of roadworks, with a wooden bridge.

Why someone would photograph that....your guess is as good as mine.

EDIT - AI says "

This scene likely depicts a street in Vietnam, potentially Cholon or Danang, during the late 1960s.

The image features significant construction activity, including exposed rebar for what appears to be a bridge or drainage project.

The surrounding area shows traditional wooden structures and traffic typical of the era."

Bonus - 

The Swing ... OF DEATH!

 

Yes, the picture is slightly blurred, but it does remind me of how potentially dangerous life was in the 1960s. 

I'm sure that such a swing would be banned in modern " 'eff n Safety" Britain.  Or so the Daily Fail would have is believe.

Bonus - Man Makes Kebabs

Not The Wednesday Murder Club

 

I can confirm that these for did NOT inspire Richard Osman's best selling book.

This is more likely the Monday Complain About The Pigeons Club.

Instead, the slide is marked as "Rev and Mrs Floyd at Gillhouse Farm  9-Aug-1968."

Time for another Street Parade

 

As we all know, Americans just LOVE having street parades. It's second only to Showing The Fish What I Done Caught as a slide-worthy event.

Today's is from May 1968, but the reason and location is unknown.  

Perhaps they were marking the sinking of USS Scorpion 

Bonus - How HS2 built a bridge to nowhere

Mary and Bobby

 

Slide was labelled Mary & I sailing 10-68

For Fathers Everywhere, This Day

 

Actually, Unknown man, unknown location, unknown date, unknown parental status. You're welcome.

Bonus - 

Meanwhile, in a modest building nearby...

 

...diabolical things are being planned.

Blogger's T&Cs mean that I cannot reveal what happened here, nor who these three folk are.

But, Donal Trump and Soup may be involved.

Bonus - 

Woop Woop

 That's The Sound Of Da Police.

Again

Aren't police officers looking young nowadays.

Bonus - Wow. 

What a rug design

 

Off On A Road Trip

 

The weekend is here, and it's time to pile everyone into a car, and head off for some mischief.

Bonus - How to Shoot an Anvil 100 Feet in the Air - You Have Been Warned

Woodchurch Carnival Queen

 

Summer time, and time for another slide from the Woodchurch Carnival 1968 set.

What's not to love about this slide?

Bonus - 

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 - 

Monica, the Clay Caricaturist

 

After the exceptional response to Mr Potter the Potter a few days ago, let's have another mud-modeller.

Monica would produce her caricatures for all sort of events, whether you wanted one or not. 

Bonus - All The Presidents Heads

Eddie and Sheena - Still Madly In Love

 

Actually, this side was marked as "Mary & I sailing 10-68", but she looks like a Sheena to me. Not clear if that's a US Navy shade of grey, or of those are the official uniforms of the off-duty submarine cop.

Bonus - 

"When Our Carol Got Married..."

 

"ay, she looked all reet.

That Norman Wickerstaff turned out to be a bit of a wet blanket.  After the divorce, he went off to share a flat with a Hairdresser from Leeds, if you know what I mean."

Bonus - It’s illegal to burn a body in a floating boat anywhere in the U.S., and a single town in Colorado is the only place in the country where you can legally burn a corpse on a dry-land funeral pyres. 

The popular conception of what are commonly called “Viking” funerals – a flaming longship – aren’t historically accurate anyway […] “They (Vikings) were more likely to drag the boat ashore and burn it on dry land with the chieftain’s body and his possessions inside, or just bury the entire boat without setting it on fire,” Pray told Cowboy State Daily.

At the end of the day ....

 

...there are some very very nice slides in my collection.

Circumstantial evidence suggest that this is in the Lake District, and some time in 1968. But, I could be wrong.

Bonus - 

Debbie on a Donkey

 

What could be more appropriate for Easter Saturday?

Debbie Dunward on Dopey the Donkey, at Dunsford Down.

Bonus - The History of Alaska’s Giant Rhubarb

Two Scamps, Ready for some Mischief.

 

Meet Andrew and Nicholas.

Two extremely naughty lads, who grew up, without growing up,

Bonus - How spitting cobras shoot for the eyes

Woodchurch School - Swimming Lessons

 

From the set of Woodchurch Primary School 1968 set, and today it's  well, it's apparently a small swimming pool, and swimming lessons. 

Quaint.

Bonus - 80 Years ago today, Ann Frank celebrated her 13th Birthday, and decided to start her diary. 

Bonus 2 - Because I'm a horrible person...