vernon god little
i’ve just finished reading vernon god little. it’s most excellent and i highly recommend you read it (if you haven’t already)
official signs
yeah. official british travel signs. it’s the highway code online
potty stop
british ‘A’ roads often have signs pointing to laybys with the letter ‘P’ by them. I always thought that meant Parking. until we had children.
now i know it means ‘potty’.
jane asked me to get out the car and help so i did. when we finally got back in the car and drove off she said to me very sweetly “you know when i said help, i didn’t mean ‘take a photo’, i actually meant ‘please help me’ ”
i am SO rubbish at understanding things like that.
mexican
here we are having fun in a restaurant. andy noticed that the chef must have been confused about animals as they were serving buffalo wings.
buffalos can’t fly. but then neither do ostriches. or big buildings. but buffalos also have beaks (know as a Buffalo Bill). so perhaps buffalos are actually ducks ?
i dunno.
fun
genuine fun on an artifical beach
pedalo
pedalos are weird things. they aren’t a proper means of transport. i suspect they are what is commonly called “a pleasure craft”. a lot of effort goes in to making them go not very far not very fast.
here are our center parcs host family for the day. note how andy tries a backward pedalling technique to make things more exciting. it certainly was interesting to watch.
he soon gave up and let young adam have a pedal.
crazier golf
this crazy golf course has been upgraded and made more exciting. it now contains concrete mixers, giant deep holes and a tractor. and there’s a big metal fence round it which says ‘keep out’
a real challenging course if ever i’ve seen one.
longleat
we went to center parcs at longleat for the day today thanks to our friends andy and gill. i saw the dogs signs (here and here) again which was great.
their chalet was in a pine forest. i don’t know if i like pine. it smells like toilets to me.
the transport order
cars look after cycles who look after pedestrians. it’s the natural order of things. unfortunately the word ‘take’ in this sign looks like ‘fake’.
cyclists fake care of pedestrians is an all together different concept
kids in cupboards
esther and her friend adam were hiding from the grown ups in a cupboard. they had a shelf each which made hiding more organised
kezzy cool
kezia was looking particularly cool this morning.
stonehenge again again
today was a nice day to pass stonehenge. i know people like to see them so here’s some pictures through the car window as we zoomed by.
the one on the right shows esther hiding under kezia’s blanket with stonehenge in the distance.
odd
we’ve had this sign before, but it is a favourite, so we can have it again.
i always think that ‘uneven’ is odd
triangles
more bad bollard behaviour. look. they are breaking and entering this park.
there’s a very triangular theme to this little incident
oxford stree police
it works well for swimming pool attendents, so why shouldn’t it work for police men with binoculars in oxford street. he evenhas his own community policemand for company
coat hangers
but why would anyone do this ???
