The Young Mobster and The Young Moll

 

Springtime, and a young mobster's mind turns to guns and dames.

Bonus - A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator

Careful with that Reversing !!!

 

Probably on the Santa List for every boy in the 1960s, a new red bicycle.

But be careful with the rolling backwards, issue.

Bonus - 

 

The first Chill of Autumn

 

Buttoned up in a thick woollen coat, of a fashion that hasn't existed for forty years, and sporting a strange design of hat... young Melissa is off to church.

Bonus - 

Rural Family in Summer

 

The evenings are beginning to get shorter, so let's celebrate the arse-end of August with this redneck family.

Bonus - CHRONOLOGY OF WAKEUP CALLS Compiled by Colin Fries, NASA History Division

Hot Summer in the South

 No info on this slide, but as it's Late Summer Bank Holiday Monday here in Slideville, I'm assuming this is a hot Southern USA family gathering. Georgia, or Alabama, or similar.

Bonus - HOW THE MOST ICONIC ALBUM ART OF THE 70S WAS MADE ON A SHOESTRING BUDGET

Skating on The Fletcher's Pond

 

Nostalgia, cold winters, "Too Cold For Snow", skating using an old frozen banana instead of skates, etc etc etc

You know the stories.

Bonus - Duelling Balloons.

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The Santa Watchers

 

Someone is keeping an eye out for the arrival of Santa and the reindeer.

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Warm, and with friends

Carina's Birthday

 

Yes, today is Carina's XXth birthday, and I'm glad to see that someone's baked her a cake.

( NB : I can't guarantee that the girl in the photo is the the Carina I'm think of.)

Bonus - Carina shares her birthday with Barry Manilow, Ken Livingston, Jello Biafra and Beryl Reid.   Nice.

Bonus 2 - This website will self destruct if no-one visits it.

Young Love

 

It's St Valentine's Day, so tradition dictates that I rouse myself from from my desperately lonely dungeon of social isolation, and  post an image of suitable soppiness, for the enjoyment of the millions and millions of on-blog-readers. <Dejected Shrug > Whatever.

Here it is. Bobby and Katie. In love for the rest of their lives. 

Well, Boobt at least. Later that same day, he was attacked and consumed by a pack of racoons.

Bonus - What the Global Pandemic has told us about sports' "Home Field Advantage".

Snow Biking

 

Flurries of snow outside mean I can't go for my usual 60 mile bike-ride, so this vintage slide will have to do. A youngling with a "You'll grow into it" bike, and a Grandpa in proper winter-wear. None of the modern technical alpine-wear, suitable for an assault on The Matterhorn.

Bonus 1 - Sri Lanka's health minister, who endorsed herbal syrup to prevent Covid, has tested positive for the virus

Bonus 2 -     It's hideous, but I want it.