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

'owzat !!!

In honour of the English and West Indian Cricket teams, and tomorrow's Final Test, today we have Charlie's treatment of Bob's infamous slow leg-breaks.

With the semi-classic Tartan Duffel Bag Wicket.

Nice.

Bonus - President Trump has made more than 20,000 false or misleading claims

Bonus 2 - The Extent of Railways.

Two Tree Gnomes

Generally, gnomes live in burrows underground.

However, these two seem to have made their home up a tree.

Daft.

Bonus - Today, I have been making Stigmata Cookies.

Walkies with Grand-Pa

The Slide Guy Blog.

Not just there for the unpleasant things in life.


Charlie and Bob are here, talking Grand-Pa Mosteyn for a walk.

Lovely.

Bonus : A Remote Paradise Island Is Now a Plastic Junkyard

Bonus 2 - Swanage, Dorset, Apparently

The Bouncy Days of Summers Past

Who could forget those distant days where a few minutes on a trampoline constituted a highlight of the holiday?

Obviously days before every back garden having a fully enclose, health and safety approved trampoline.

Curious that the bloke on the left is looking as his iPad decades before they were invented.

Bonus : Well played, sir, well played.

Bonus 2 :Trump requires female staff to Dress Like A Woman. Women respond.

Fifi's First Christmas

Charlie and Bob, with their best ever Christmas present. A poodle who they names Fifi.

Unfortunately, Fifi is infact a male, and preferred to be known by the moniker "Rat-Throttler".

Months later, Fifi (enraged by the teasing from other dogs) attacked Charlie, and bit his patella off. Fifi "went to live on a farm" after that.

Bonus - 114 Years ago - The Death Of Topsy The Elephant.

Charlie and Bob- Meet A Puppy

Back to the Charlie and Bobseries.

Today - C and B meet a black labrador puppy. Or maybe a black panther adolescent.

Bonus - Today would have been The Prof's 98th Birthday.

Charlie and Bob

Today, the lads are preparing for the "Four Laps of the Back Garden" racing challenge.

While the trike might have the straight line speed, the dumper truck has the all-important stability and traction for the muddy corner beside the Geraniums.

Bonus - Why Is It 'Eleven, Twelve' Instead of 'Oneteen, Twoteen'?

Nanny and the Kids

It today's episode, Charlie and Bob visit the petting zoo.

Episode starts in
10

9

8

7

Bonus -

Our First Tent

Ah, memories.  Charlie and Bob with their first expedition tent, with which they had their first expedition to Tibet, and were still back home in time for tea.

Bonus - Article - Chickens have gotten ridiculously large since the 1950s

The Fort

Heavens!  I remember when my parents had a sun lounger like that !

Sun lounger or not, Charlie and Bob have captured it, and are improvising an impregnable fort from it. Very wise.

Bonus - Bad Ass Fan-Art

Charlie and Bob At The Beach

Safely ensconced in their self-dug holes.

Bonus - Best McDonald Happy Meal Toy ever.