A-ha ! I caught you a... Oh.

 

Acting on his suspicions, Mr Hank Flibble burst into his daughter's bedroom with flash-bulbs blazing.

Alas, Dorothy and boyfriend Seymour...calming discussing the events of the day.

Damn.

Bonus - Nope

An uncomfortable First Date

 

Yet, they stayed together for 23 years, intil that incident with her sister...

Bonus - The council of the wise has been formed...

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.

Mary and Bobby

 

Slide was labelled Mary & I sailing 10-68

A tender moment between the two of them...

 

...before Wendy and Kenneth succumbed to their base instincts, and disappeared under table for some surprisingly loud and passionate love making.

And emerging in time for the sweet trolley.

Bonus - 

A look of utter disdain

 

I have no idea why Wilbur is so disdainful of Ella's action... but clearly he is annoyed about something.

Bonus -  Normal for Sweden, perhaps.

Bonus 2 - 

"The New Home"

 

That's all that was on the slide "The New Home".

No information on when (I'm guessing 1970), where (guessing Telford new town) or who (guess Trevor and Madilyn). 

maybe someone has more info....   maybe not.

Bonus - 

( Yes, an old joke. )

At home in a comfy little...

 

Cabin?

Narrowboat?

Gypsy Cabin?

Converted Caboose?

Who knows.

Bonus - 

Geoff and Jennifer

 

Yes, Geoff does have a massive forehead.

Slide info - said "Geoff and Jennifer 4-9-63"

Bonus - 

Euphemia and Elston

 

From a very deteriorates / colour-casted set of slides, probably from the early 50's.

Sorry.  A bit distracted today.

Bonus - 

Derp

Vickie and Bob have a Break

 

November continues, and Vickie and Stringy Bob have decides to get away from the hustle and bustle of bust London life, for a quiet, relaxingweekend at the beach.

Back in 1967.

Bonus - Rarely seen headlines ...  World’s largest GPS penis traced across Bannau Brycheiniog for charity

Return of the FLF.

 

It's been a while since we last had some normal people to ridicule and lambast.

So, welcome back this example of FLF. (That's Funny Looking Folks.)

"Shorty Bob" McGoldrick, and is mistress, Miss Phoebe Fungle. Yes, it's true.

Bonus - Don't conflate FLF with Flerf and Flerfers. Flerf is Flat Earth, and it's proponents need to be mocked and ridicules.

For Example 

Thelma and Brian - Just engaged

 

Other than a year, there's no info. But, clearly an engagement event. And I'm guessing these must be Thelma and Brian.

Or maybe Mavis and Colin.

Bonus - Fancy heading out to stare at the night sky, and the marvel of The Milky Way.  You need a Dark Sky.

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 - 

My Beloved, on St Valentine's Day evening

 

St Valentine's Day, and I thought I'd share an image of me, and my beloved.

Obviously, this is from a few years back ... 1957, if I recall correctly, when we'd borrowed a time machines to head back for a High School Hop.  A, nostalgia.

Bonus - Different folks, different celebrations. On Valentine’s Day 2003, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and h/er Other Half Jacqueline Breyer, otherwise known as Lady Jaye, received matching breast implants. Upon waking up, Genesis looked down and exclaimed, “These are our angelic bodies.” RIP Genesis

The Happy Engaged Couple

 

Ah yes.   I recognise these guys.

The not-so-happy guys from here, and here, and indeed here.

I wonder what happened to them...

Bonus - 

Three...

A Summer Evening's Wander

 

Yes, It's out of focus... I Know.

But, for a sunny evening, George and Hilda loved to lace up their hobnail boots, and have a walk to Old Hobb's Groto, the scene of much of their courting.

Bonus - If this was real, I'd buy it/them.

In Action Figures

...And ... I'm back in the room !

 

Well, that wasn't fun.

A couple of days of intermittent computer file recovery and ... I think I've recovered 99% of what I had.

Top Tip Folks -Remember to back your files up. Preferably automatically.

Bonus - Cats Crashing Nativity Scenes

Bonus 2 - I suppose I should comment on today's slide. Nice T-Shirt.

Crossing The Road

 

It's Tedious Tuesday, so it's time to slow down, relax and ask ourselves... "Uh?  Why did they photograph that?"

Today.... I struggle to say anything interesting about this. 

There are a couple of clues to this being in Austria, possibly Villach, but ... meh.

Bonus - Meanwhile in neighbouring Switzerland, the citizens is compiling a map of soiled underwear. 

Flashbulb Zombies

 

A little experimentation.

The main image (above) of  Guests At An Event in 1963, suffers from the harsh nature of photographic flash-bulbs of the time. A bright flash of magnesium, 2 inches above the camera, gave a very flat washed-out image of the subject.

Zomie-like I would say.

So, as an experiment, I took the original image and reduced it to mono-chrome (second image).

I then uploaded it to Palaette.fm to see what their AI coloration algorithms would do. And the result - the third image.  Hmm, not bad.

Bonus - Geekdom achieved Platinum Level in 2021