Etiquette Notes - When Offered A Clam...

 

...on a windswept, January beach, by a Maternal Grandmother ....

....it is normal to respond with "No, granny. I have no interesting in your fishy stinking clam. Put it away."

Bonus - A Wonderful Life: How Postwar Christmas Embraced Spaceships, Nukes, Cellophane

The Street Urchin

 

Nope. Not a third birdie slide this week.

Just a (non-sea) Street Urchin.

Bonus - A curious word urchin, with little obvious connection between the Sea- and Street- usages. However, it comes from From Middle English yrchoun, irchoun (“hedgehog”), borrowed from Old Northern French irechon, variant of herichun, (compare central Old French heriçun, heriçon; modern hérisson), from Vulgar Latin *ericio, ericionem, from Latin ericius (“hedgehog”). Doublet of herisson.

A Little Japanese Girl

 

Today's slide... well, you can figure it out yourself.

Or maybe I'll be accused for cultural imperialism, as it might be a little Korean Boy. I don't really know.

But, I can't figure out what she is holding. Two blue Macaroons? Yo-yos?  Amazon Alexa Dot things?

Bonus - More importantly, Wash Your Ass.

Junior Gets Some Fresh Air

 

As per the blog title.

Nice fifties fashion, by the way.

Bonus - 

Hello Meh !

Makes Sense

A Mother's Love

Fifty years on, I wonder where they are now.

Bonus - A Bizarre Form of Water May Exist All Over the Universe

In The Days Before Gameboys....

...there were hours of entertainment in an empty brown paper bag.  And Food Fair bags were the bestest.

More intriguing, in the background. That mysterious object.

I suspect it's some stacking set of TV Dinner trays. Classy. I bet that modern hipsters would pay hundreds for those.

Bonus - What is the most dangerous drug?

Jarvis Contemplating A Grape

He ponders the greatest question in existence.

This this grape grows up, will it become a Current, a Sultana or a Raisin.  What is the difference?

If only he know he knew about T'Interweb

Bonus - Time to move back....

Bonus 2 - Houston, after the Hurricane Harvey flooding.

Bonus 3 - 31st August - And I've resisting mentioning Lady Di... Aw crap.

Distant Cousins

I like this slide.

Just a nice little observed moment in time - distant relations considering each other.

Bonus -

Wary Mother

A tigress protecting her cub.:-)

Bonus -

Linda and Keith

That's all the slide says. Linda and Keith.

No date, no location, not eve an indication is a human, chimp or ventriloquist's doll.

I like to think that Linda's still touring with her Vent Act. Keith, however, will have been replaced by a wise-cracking baboon with a speech impediment. Linda still does OK in the Borscht Belt resorts, but mainly earns a crust as a Dental Receptionist.

Bonus - In response to very nearly one request, another Barra Slide.

Street Puppet Theatre

Does what is says on the tin - it's a Children's Puppet Theatre.  From July 1960

Bonus - KKK and a Sousaphone.

Onesie Hunt

The hunt for the original onesie continues. This one seems to date back to 1952, but to be honest, it looks more like a child's Siren suit


Bonus - Mystery surrounds theft of 60 doorbells

Paddling at the lake

It's a fine day here in Slideville - I hope it is with you too.



Bonus : To mark the day, why not learn about the critical contribution of The 79th Armoured Division (Hobart's Funnies.)



Bonus 2 :

Below is the Elephant's Foot.

You probably don't want to get any closer.

Meet The Grandchildren !

Grandma's favourite subject - the Granddaughters.

From the left - Gwendolyn, Slymnestra, Petronella and Uggh.
(Curious. The spell checker suggested correcting "Gwendolyn" to "Well Endowed". No Comment.)

But that's a freaky doll that Gwen has...

Bonus - You know that music at teh start of TV programmes? Turns out it's not recorded

Aaaaaaarrrrgggghhhh !

Sounds like someone has a fine set of lungs.

Yes, I'm still here. Despite the deluge of very nearly two emails, messages, texts and tweets, I've not given up.  Just being lazier.


Bonus Time :
Test Pilot Bill Weaver tells about a Mach 3.18 in-flight breakup of an SR-71 Blackbird