Notable signs

Sign in beauty shop ... Get nailed here!

More amusing signs

Car wash ... Cleaners a whistle (Say it - don't read it)

Walter Vego

The rules of civility

It is not becoming in a person of quality when in the company of ladies to handle them roughly ; to put his hand in their necks or bosoms ; to kiss them by surprise , to force their letters or books from them , to look into their papers etc.

Quoted from "The rules of civility" Anon 1695

Notable signs

To walk about in London one can enjoy the signage at no cost to oneself. Disregard the ancient signs on crumbling walls and look at the new businesses trying to attract your attention. Please add to the following if any signs strike you as amusing, ambiguous , confusing , salacious or downright obscure:

On a fish and chip shop
.....Rock and Roe

In a hairdresser's window
......Clip & Chop

In a butcher's window
.....Now is the time to get on the game

In a pub .....
Dost thou think because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale.

(Sir Toby Belch) .. Am not claiming accuracy for this quote.

Walter Vego

Do snails have a sense of direction?

Do snails have a sense of direction. According to a recent experiment, they do.

Have a look at the BBC Radio 4 Material World website - "So you want to be a scientist?"

To outstay one's welcome!

A few years ago I bought a marvellous container for cooking rice in the micro-wave and used it a lot until I got lazy. Yesterday, having run out of my "boil in the bag" type I got the old container out to wash it and refresh my memory how to use it. Low and behold!! I was not the only one interested in it, as the instructions inside were torn to bits!

I know who the culprit is. A year ago we had a very frendly mouse visiting us for "B and B". I thought he had gone eventually but obviously he had decided to stay on without telling me and had discovered my nice container and had taken up residence.

I spent ages trying to put all the bits of grubby paper together but was not successful and gave it up as a bad job.

Back to "boil in the bag"!!

Polly.

Things past

I happened to listen to a conversation of two people talking of things past.

The past for me is yesterday and I thought of how others "see" the past.

So... here are some answers to the question of what has past for you?

Organ grinders, organ grinders with monkeys,
street musicians, escapologists, Pearly Kings and Queens,
men with bowler hats and umbrellas, rag and bone men ,
horse drawn carts, tinkers, knife sharpeners, typewriters .

Add as many as you like to your changing world.

Walter Vego