signs (general)

here is a sign of death. i like the teeth. i used to be a goth you know.

i think this sign means this trees days are numbered.
this tree must die so that others near it might live. that’s how forests work apparently

i got stopped by the police this morning. sort of. a police van was reversing out of an alley way and i had to stop walking for about 30 seconds so i didn’t get run over.
but it just goes to show how close i am to the edge of the law most of the time.
a few minutes later i saw this sign.

here is a sign we pass every week on the way to church. it’s a sign saying ‘no dumping’ and a crossed out christmas tree. the thing i like about this sign is that, even though it’s hand made, it remains up all year round.
i wished i had taken a photo of it in the middle of summer, but i didn’t because it’s in a tricky place to stop. but today we stopped anyway.

is your money dirty ? well, you should go to this money launderer. you may even get to meet the speed queen.

can butterflies read ? if they are hungry enough they can.

here are some signs in the living rainforest.
here are two nice signs:

and is this any way to run a rainforest ? i blame global cooling or something

here is a sign screwed to the top of a pub table so no one steals it. it’s obviously very important.

when it snows people do strange things. skid mostly. but cars go at different speeds. some way too slow. some way too fast.
how can you indicate this in a sign ? how about this which is a direct replacement for a speed limit sign which was there this morning:

they tried the same at the train station too:

this sign says the show home is open. but it was half past midnight and it blatantly wasn’t open. i was dissappointed. what kind of 24 hours society are we running here ?

here is a mysterious thing in paddington station. it raises more questions than it solves i’m afraid.
why can’t it be moved ? how did they get it there in the first place (they must have written the words on when it was in place). is it a reminder to the ticket inspectors not to listen to people’s sob stories about losing their tickets ? is it for when there is a train strike and is used to accompany the song “we shall not be moved”
and most importantly. if it’s not to be moved, why has it got a handle on the top.

the toilet signs in the london aquarium are very good

there was a sign on this pub which said WE ARE CLOSED FOR A PRIVATE PARTY.
unfortunately the party obviously got out of hand as they had completely wrecked the place and various men in hard hats were carrying bags of rubble and old floor boards out in to the street.
i would have got some better pictures, but i was running to another meeting which turned out to be 30 minutes away (and not my allotted 20 mintes). i arrived on time, but out of breath.

here is a sign on a lightswitch near where some technical people sit. technical people love playing with buttons and switches.
to prevent this happening they’ve put a post-it on it which says “NO ! I’m a light switch”. Of course the light switch doesn’t have hands, so how was the note written ?

i try to look both ways as much as possible:
smart and casual
fat and thin
tall and small
bright and thick

it worried me to ask, but what opposites do you attract ?

pay on foot sounds very monty pythonesque. i balanced 20 pence on my shoe. luckily i didn’t have a car