Being a construction of your humble blogger Tepid Halibut, with the aim of posting one vintage slide image per day, from now until Kingdom Come. (Or until Mr Halibut gets bored.)
Saturday, 28 February 2026
The Big Horse
Friday, 27 February 2026
Don't Leave The Dancefloor
The only thing on this slide was "Castle" and "1977", so this could be the legendary gig by The Sex Pistols at the Castle and Flagon Pub in East Grinstead.
Could be.
Bonus -
Sunday, 26 October 2025
Sunday, and a trip to the Castle
Sunday in the UK, and in the seventies, that was prime time for a visit to a local attraction, like a castle, museum or Vintage Steam Rally.
Hear, Granny takes Martin and Polly to ...ummm... Warwick Castle ?
Bonus - Why do we yawn?
Thursday, 17 August 2023
...some more Folk-Dancing
Dancing the Hungarian Garotte, accompanied by the East Nottingham Medieval Micro-Orchestra.
Bonus - Recompose human composting facility "transforms your loved one's body into soil"
Tuesday, 15 June 2021
...and the crowd don't go wild!
Yes, the attendees of the Eastbourne Retired Postmen and Post Office Employee Gala Fun Day were rather bemused by "Il Bootleg Bootleg Beatles".
Few of them realised that they were witnessing the birth of Post-Modernism, with an Italian Language Tribute Band, honouring the work of a Tribute Band to the Fab Four.
Bonus - 162 years ago today, the shooting of a pig sparked a war between USA and UK. Local commanding officers on both sides had been given essentially the same orders: defend yourselves, but absolutely do not fire the first shot. The dispute was resolved by the intervention of Germany.







