Meanwhile, in Peru

 

...Mrs Elvira Bockstein heads off for her daily job, avoiding the micturating pooch, and heading towards The Prolapsed Rectum, for lunch with the other Ladies Who Lunch.

Bonus - Herring gulls respond to the acoustic properties of men’s voices

A Happy Hallowe'en

 

See.

Halloween doesn't have to be about Horror and Slutty Fancy Dress outfits.

Tho, a few more slutty nurses are definitely an improvement.

Bonus - Lovely Ladies with Pumpkins

Fruit Meringue as Headwear

 

So, apparently, in the remote Watzachapl Region of Peru, it's is the fashion for mothers to bake meringues and fill them with fruits and berries for their daughters to were on the Fest Day of Saint Celia.

Who Knew?

Bonus - 

Tally Ho

 

Still on Holiday 

Bonus -  Tally-ho is the traditional cry made by the huntsman to tell others the quarry has been sighted. It may also be used with directions, including "away" and "back".

First used in fox-hunting, it was adapted in the 19th century to describe some horse-drawn vehicles and in the 20th century to advise of enemy aircraft and space junk.

Sand-Skimmer

 

Well, maybe not skim.

Lumberer?

Sand Dune - Bank Holiday Monday edition

 

To make up for the lack of a slide yesterday - sorry, but I contracted Ennui - here's a return of Ahmed and Trevor, the Sand Dune Duo.

As you can tell, Trevor has new socks today.

Bonus - 

This Fine Fungusy Fellow.

 

I did harbour a faint hope that I could figure out who this chap is, or was, but... my Google-Fu has deserted me. It could be DH Lawrence. It could be Ethel Merman in a fake beard.

I have no idea.

Pipe up if you know who this bloke is.

Bonus - 

Me Too

Waiting For The Fireworks

 

Guy Fawkes Night here in the UK.  And the crowds are beginning to assemble, in anticipation of a truly awesome firework display.

Bonus - 

A Priest On Points Duty

 

Well, that's what it looks like to me.

If you want a challenge, starting just with that image, and nowt else, see if you can figure out who, what, where.

For the rest of us, the info is below the cut.

A Homely Hallowe'en

 

With so much of modern Halloween imagery focussing on horror and gore, how refreshing to look back to the seventies, and a far more homely Halloween.

Nice Bunch of Pumpkins.

Bonus - Scientists Investigating Rare Antigens Discover An Entire New Blood Group

Britain Needs a New Prime Minister.

 

Why Not Bob?

As Liz Truss sinks rapidly in the west, the hunt is on for a new Prime Minister who is untainted by Brexit Battles, who is unafflicted by Party Politics, and won't get into new scandals

Why not Robert "Bob" Livingston?

Admittedly, he's not an MP, or even a member of the Conservative party, but that shouldn't be a hindrance.  He also died in 1978, but this is not the time to succumb to petty alive-ist prejudices.

Vote Bob.

Bonus - 

The Cake Balancers

 

These kids were in a bunch of slides showing Machu Picchu and related high-altitude "stuff", and they have the look of South American natives.

However, I have no idea about why they are wearing / balancing fruit meringues on their heads.

Possible some strange local Saint's Day celebration.

Bonus - 

Ahhhh. Memories.

Enjoying the Evening Sun

 

At the end of the day, it does the spirit good to just sit out on the veranda, with a chilled glass of something just out of shot, enjoying the setting of the sun.

Bonus - This makes me inordinately happy.

Where did you get that hat?

 

Thus was in a bunch of Peruvian Slides, so I'd like to think that these are the local coca leaves / cocaine sellers, but it could just as easily be Alstroemeria sellers.

Speaking of which,  I could do with some fine, Columbian ... coffee.

Bonus - Eating a piece of cheese is perfectly acceptable, but if you shove a handful of grated cheese in your mouth people look at you like you are a psychopath.

Bonus 2 - 

The Artist At Work

 

Just a street artist in ....ummmm...    Inverness?

Bonus - Immigrants in US States.

Bonus 2 - Min wage vs Beer

Barbecue-ing With Campbells Soup

 

This perplexes me.

A nice Saturday afternoon picnic, with a charcoal Bar-B-Q. And soup.

How odd.

Bonus - 

Camel-Jockeys

 

Not trying to be offensive or racist, but a couple of camels, with riders.  Assuming they're off for a race, ... Camel-Jockeys.

Bonus - Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1921-2021. RIP

And from The Guardian...

The Crater Lake Guys

 

The Crater Lake Guys, the kings of Voodoo-Bluegrass msuic, are shown here with their support band Fenton and the Armpits (the best Punkabilly Polka band in Nevada) during their country-wide tour of VFW Clubs.

Apologies if this slide suffers from focus problems, but I may have been over-celebrating the Scotland Rugby Team's win in Pars. Hic.

Bonus - Historic

Sand and Pick-Ups.

 

I toyed with the idea of labelling this as being Mexicans flooding into USA after the new POTUS Joe Bden flung open the borders....but I realised that some Trumpette would take that as fact.

Nope, no idea where or when, but that seems a very dark "sand". I wonder where it really is.

Bonus - Damn!