A good old fashioned slippery-dip we managed to track down for Conor. A proper bum-burning really tall one. We'd been looking for one for ages and plan to incorporate it into a cubby house at some stage .. and it only cost a carton of beer. Bargain!



Oh forgot to say - Pooley and O'Malley from Brentwood like to play golf on allotments too. Has anyone read those books??

This brother and sister duo are my spoiled-rotten, four-legged, furry children whom I affectionately and collectively refer to as "The Hooligans." And believe me you, they live up to the nickname!

Took this photo of a deer from my bedroom window this morning, at the other side of our drive.



The oak tree behind, is the one we planted over my fathers ashes, after he died 16 years ago.

"Slippery dip" and "cubby house" -- It's still morning and I've already learned two new expressions -- thanks!

Not the best pic in the world (I prefer to call this an artistic shot - LOL), but it's not every day you get to see a sloth while walking in the jungle!

Nice one, satguru.

I like the statue, tellywellies. I must re-acquaint myself with Baron Münchhausen’s tales soon.

The boy David, with Goliath’s head at his feet, looks down on Chelsea Embankment in London. His statue is the World War I memorial to the Machine Gun Corps.

Wow!! What a slide Copago. I hope Conner has fun on that, but it looks pretty high. Do you have a big pillow to put at the bottom.

Everyone's photos are so good, this thread really makes my day.


Here's a photo from a cruise we went on. Our room attendant make this little fellow from our towels and my sunglasses.

I love that, argus! Very cool elephant!

It was a rainy old day today, not a photo-taking day at all. So here's Teddy, in his newest sweater, sitting on my desk chair and waving at you!

This is Luigi, the harpy eagle. He lives at the Peregrine Foundation headquarters at Clayton, Panama. This is the national bird of Panama. Harpy Eagles are huge. This bird's talons were bigger and thicker than my fingers.



He wasn't too happy with me snapping his pic.

I took my new Sony HDD video/still camera on this trip. I am not thrilled with the quality of the still shots. I left my Canon Rebel at home as it gets heavy with the telephoto lens. I regret that decision now.

The story of Whampoa Docks, Hong Kong is a long and interesting one, it is even mentioned in Clavell's "Noble House"
It is no longer a dockyard, but a private Housing Estate, with many shopping malls (of course). One of the shopping malls is inside this huge concrete ship, called The Whampoa. It is a famous landmark now.

This is Phoebe, our son's dog. It's around 4 months old. I think she is going to grow big. Phoebe likes to lay anywhere that is in the way of people. In this photo, she's barricading the bathroom and refusing to move. The next part is to drag her out of the way. I think she enjoys this. She sometimes walks around with her ear over her head.

Jillian, we call that a slide, never heard your term for it.

My poor old cat is getting faddy about food so to spoil him (at nineteen he needs it) I buy different luxury treats for him to try. Today I gave him this new one, at vast expense, and you can see the results here.



I suspect he is telling me that he doesn't like peas!

What a beautiful bicycle, Liz!

And I love the pictures of the doggies. "The Hooligans" and Phoebe are beautiful

Argus, the room attendant on the cruise was very creative! Very cute elephant, for sure.

And Sue, those peas are huge! At first before reading your comment I thought they were green olives.

What a cute elephant, argus!

bhs, I've come across quiz questions about harpy eagles on this site, but I don't think I've seen a picture till now. It looks fearsome.

The "Dovecote" gift shop at Michelham Priory in Sussex is a careful twentieth-century restoration. I suspect that the pillory is a recent creation too.

TW.. Phoebe looks like she's thinking, go on move me, I double dog dare ya!!! What a cutie..


Here is a photo from one of our cruise ship's Midnight Buffet. Most don't do them anymore because they make so much food and no one really eats it, so it is a waste. And yes that fellow and his dog are really all chocolate.




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I never realised "slippery dip" wasn't a world wide term also slippery slide too, though.
Cubby house: can't think of another name for them - Kapuskasing, what would you call it?

Could a cubby house be a Wendy house? Just plain slide, not slippery slide.

I think you are right,Sue, the nearest translation seems to be Wendy House

Ah, that helps ren. I think here we just call them a "playhouse."

Wow, great site but ours wasn't going to be anything quite as grand as some of those - when (if?!) we ever get around to it we were just going to do a few changes to a little shed that we already have at the side of the house or maybe have a half treehouse half cubby house kind of thing. Who knows, these kind of things can get a bit out of hand and he'll probably end up with a better play house than we have real house!

Here's another pretty flower from my sister's garden.

This was taken from the renovated cathedral tower at Old Panama. This city was the Spanish clearing house for gold taken from South America. The English pirate Henry Morgan sacked and pillaged Old Panama.

Now "Wendy House" is on the list of new terms. Like Jar said, here they are called play houses. I'm going to try to use "slippery-dip" from now on instead of plain old "sliding board."


While visiting the Daniel Boone Homestead, I took a lichen to what was growing on a fence rail. From Googling other pictures of lichen, it appears the red kind is probably "British Soldier Lichen."

What a nice idea! Thank you for the info.