Just Hanging About with Pals

 T'was a bit of a bleached washed out slide, but with a bit of jiggery pokery, it's sort of acceptable.

From Sept 1963, and I remember playground equipment that looked like this. Probably unacceptable to modern Health and Safety.

Bonus - Happy Birthday Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

Swing Time

 

( I remember having a cardigan in that colour. )

Oh, how swinging has changed since 1976.

Bonus - Cat Chilling

Have A Wheely Great Saturday

 

Nothing much to say here.

Bonus - From Sex Pistols to Girls Skipping

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

Swinging on a Swing

 

Even in Mid-December, playing outdoors in the best.

Here, Audrey gets some exercise swinging. Which is ironic, considering her proclivities later in life.

Bonus -  Cats are Stupid

Swing Time

 

Newer Blog-Readers might see the thick black border on this image, and assume the worst. But, no.  This little cutie ain't dead. Actually, she might be ... I have no idea who she is, where she is, or even when she is.

The Black Border is a little not to this image originating from a half-frame camera.   I've explained them before, but.... it's a thing. From the past. 

Bonus - When AI meets Nightmares.

Pizza Nuggets Ad 1993 (Found Footage) - AI Made

A Swinging Good Time

 

Does anyone actually read the description / drivel that I put beside the slide?

Bonus - 

Sharon, The Skipping Girl

 

Hands up who wants a totally wholesome of Sharon, skipping, beside her best friend Gudrun.

< counts silently >

OK.... here you are !

Bonus - Every Single Scandinavian Crime Drama

Bonus 2 - 

Snowball Fight

 

It's been a chilly day, here in Slideville...with quite a misty, foggy atmosphere.

However, this snowballers seems to enjoying their weather, and will probably head indoors to a mug of Hoit Chocolate and marshmallows soon. Lucky beggars.

Bonus - Vintage Japanese Gas Attack Posters, 1938

Bonus 2 - A Brief History of Medical Face Masks

You Know ... For Kids

Oh Yeah.    I'm getting a Midwych Cuckoos / Village of the Damned vibe from this girl.   I bet she received a life sentence for multiple murders later in life.

Or earlier in her life.  Gulp.

Bonus - An impressive catch of fis... Oh Carp,

Saturday in the Garden

1969, and a sunny day for Charlie and Bob to have a splash around with their cousins. This is the classic sort of summer that some of us remember.

Bonus - Scientists have found that some fishes absorb up to 99.956 percent of the light that hits them. The deep-sea menagerie just got a whole lot weirder.

Bonus 2 -

Oh Noes. I dropped my keys !

"...straight down the drain.   Fetch me a wire coat-hanger.!

Bonus - The future of social distancing dining - One Person Restaurants.

Bonus - Humans Not Invited.

The Sinister Swingers

Not so much a Tedious Tuesday slide, but a badly-exposed slide, lending the image a rather sinister or oppressive tone.

Nice

Bonus 1 - How Much Toilet Paper Do You REALLY Need?  Fully configurable data.

Bonus 2 - But if we're discussing Toilet Paper, we must respect Cornholio.

Ride On Duck !

Coronavirus Lockdown continues, and even the playgrounds are out of bounds.  This rocker, from the fifties I suspect, will be long gone, but...what a disturbing design.

Bonus - The COVID-19 Lockdown is affecting all areas...

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At Play In The Garden of Goulden

Yesterday's slide was fairly dull, so I really had to dig deep for a suitable Tedious Tuesday slide.

This one, fits the bill. It's from a set chronicling a family's day out at Goulden Manor, in July 1975.

I suspect that should be Gaulden Manor, but I blame the photographer.

Bonus - I suspect that many of you have seen videos of cats on robotic vacuums (or even Grumpy Cat on a Roomba).   However, there's something about this one that's .... different.

Suzie .... and "Bobby"

Like many teenage girls, Suzie has a special friend. A special imaginary friend.  Bobby Perot.

The difference here is that Bobby is legally recognized as Suzie's official end-of-life care advisor.  Makes it rather tricky for the hospice.

Bonus - Picture before evacuation due to the Erupted Volcano on Taal.

...And The Murderer Is....

"...Detective Inspector Markfield.

Yes, I did it. And I'd do it again because Colonel Farquarson killed my hamster in Kindergarten.  The Swine".

Bonus - London transport seat designs – in pictures

Bonus 2 -

More Fun Than You Can Shake Two Sticks At

Kids today?  Pfft.

They may have mobile phones, Furbies, Tamagotchis and finger spinners, but I bet they didn't have as much fun as these Seventies kids and a set of monkey bars.

And if you're of a certain age, you can start your " 'elf n Safety ... wouldn't be allowed now ...  snowflakes .... blah, blah, blah " rant now.

Bonus - A brie(f) history of cheese.

A reminder of Cooler Days

With slideville still experiencing an unseasonal heatwave, let's have a reminder of days of snow-men and snowball fights.

Lovely stuff.

Bonus - Baby's hand mummified by copper coin

Bonus 2 - Combat High – A Brief But Sobering History of Drug Use in Wartime

Kids At Play

Ah. Memories of times past.

That child could be me, but its was a green dress in my case. :-)

Bonus - Trailer - Batman Ninja
Bonus 2 - Tom Waits/Cookie Monster mashup - God's Away On Business