Youthful indiscretions: Hobnobbing with Royalty and Testudine

[infrogmation]

Young Froggy in two photos from my mother's collection



I hadn't realized that I'd been photographed with the Queen.

Well, sort of.



The blur in the carrage wearing an aqua hat is Queen Elizabeth II. I'm the back of the head at lower right. The other person in the carriage is the Yang of Malaysia. London, 9 July, 1974.

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Back when I was a lad, we din't have any of these damned Segways and Humvees; if we were lucky we rode on turtles and we were glad to get the ride.

Comments

[mshollie.livejournal.com]

What a cute young froggy! :)

[jennconspiracy.livejournal.com]

You were SO ADORABLE - what a great picture on that turtle!

[la-azteca.livejournal.com]

You look a lot like my husband in his 1970s childhood pics.

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

From observing the kids of friends and relatives, I'm thinking a lot of blonde haired boys look much like that around that age.

Do they still let kids ride turtles now-a-days?

[entheos93.livejournal.com]

Probably not. Those Galapagos tortoises are so seriously endangered that most zoos (if any) have them anymore, and if they do, I'm sure it's no-touchy. Not to mention, it was decided that kids could get salmonella from touching them, so with today's overprotective parents- I doubt it.

I just took my mom to Galatoire's, and she thought that they made the turtle soup out of those, and she was horrified. It was funny.

[ancientscripts.livejournal.com]

Yeehaw...howdy partner! A cowboy hat and you would've belonged in a rodeo.

[asienieizi.livejournal.com]

Those are absolutely wonderful! It must have taken you a long time to get to London on that turtle.

Yankee Doodle went to London, riding on a turtle...

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

Yeah, fortunately the turtle was just as fast in the water as on land.

I don't recall the turtle ride, but I do recall seeing the Queen and the Yang. A brass band proceeding her played a Joplin's "The Entertainer".