Trawling through my photos looking for something I couldn’t find, I came across these.
No driver in India needs to be asked twice to use their horn. At any time of the day or night. I didn’t stay here …. … or take this advice Wensleydale Railway. We shut the gate. Sadly, we saw no red squirrels in Dumfries and Galloway Cádiz So we didn’t. I can’t remember where we spotted this pub. Just as well. ‘Going to the hairdresser is the best natural anti-depressant’: Cádiz.
Especially after Lockdown …
The featured photo comes from RSPB Saltholme.
Your pictures certainly brought a smile to my face on this grey morning.
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Grey with you too? Oh dear.
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What an interesting collection. It reminds me of when I was 17 and went to live in a girls hostel for my last year of school as the boarding part of the school closed down. From a very regulated environment we went into a very free one, run by a woman who detested signs and promoted communication. There were no rules but plenty of consequences of not following her one edict ‘consideration’ which she proved to us when she tore down a sign one of the created that read “Do not use the washing machine after 8pm’.
She said, if you are unable to resolve the problem through reasonable communication, then come and ask me help, but no imposing signage upon us all. She was the best, treated us like adults and taught us using a far better tool that authoritarianism.
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She sounds a remarkable woman. A great lesson for life, but not followed by many!
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Not taught by enough either, it was enlightened thinking for us teens at the time and I’ve never forgotten it.
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Forty shillings! Extortion 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Ay. It’s a week’s wages. Best be’ave.
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Not if I can help it 🤣🤣
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Lovely collection
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Well, a change from all the Doom and Gloom public notices we see these days.
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Indeed
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🙂
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Lots of fun. And intriguing – particularly the place that sells real ale.
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You’re a real fan, aren’t you?
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🤣
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what a collection
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😉
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A collection of smiles through your memories. Cheers to the many joys of travel. (I can’t wait for its return)
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Nor me …
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Great collection, Margaret….and did you find what you were looking for??
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Nah. It was them rabbits.
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Oh, of course…naughty Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail!
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… and Peter.
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Well, yes…did I ever send you the little clip of naughty Peter Rabbit?
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I don’t think so.
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I’ll see if I still have it
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(Wish I had my camera)—Spotted one the other day: A parking lot; one side had a brick wall; no other signs on the wall, only this one: “Please Ignore This Sign”. Hmmm.
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Hmm indeed. Guaranteed you’d disobey!
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They are fun. 🙂
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Thanks. I thought so.
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How would they know exactly who left the gate open?
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Fair point. It wasn’t me!
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I love the hairdresser sign from Cádiz! So true. Great collection!
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And hairdressers became our Most Wanted People during Lockdown.
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So true. We’re a covid-hair family at the moment…
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When you get a hair cut at last, all of you, you’ll feel rejuvenated!
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We will. Aiming for after Thanksgiving, next week.
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A great collection, Margaret. I like the “wrong way” one. I’m surprised I don’t come across a lot of them, given my map reading skills 🙂
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Oh Margaret you found some great signs to laugh at or with 😀 😀
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Great collection Margaret. I never seem to have my camera handy when I see interesting signs. The other day a cap passed me with a sign in the rear window that said “no parking. I can’t think of a scenario in which that makes sense.
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Indeed. Very puzzling.
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Hilarious. We have black squirrels around, but you definitely love to meet a red one, lol
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They are particularly attractive compared with their more sombre cousins.
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What fun signs! Maybe the “wrong way” sign was put up to assist individuals who blindly follow directions and miss the obvious. I’ve read about people who ended up in ponds and other strange places when using using GPS – and I never can figure out why they didn’t just use a bit of common sense when the GPS voice told them to do something that was obviously incorrect
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Yes indeed. This site specialised in quite tongue-in-cheek signage. It cheered a not-too-good-weather-day up.
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Our local craft shop had a sign outside (briefly) saying “Craft is essential, Boris isn’t”
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Can’t disagree with that, can you?
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I wonder if the 40 shillings fine was an on the spot fine?
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😉
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Great variety of signs.. I read poo table and thought I might be drinking ale with piglet.. 😉
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Oh, I’m sure he’s far too clean-living!
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Some of these had me laughing out loud. You reminded me of one of my few attempts to drive in America when I saw a sign saying ‘Do not pass’ and thought I wasn’t supposed to go past it. Fortunately, I could see everyone else was doing it.
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I’d have been equally stuck!
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A most enjoyable collection of signs. Oddly though I find hairdressing places depressing and I had given up on hairdressers well before Covid, so lockdown didn’t perturb me on that score! Do remember the title song from that ancient musical ‘Hair!’ with the line ‘never have to cut it cos it stops by itself’? 🙂
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No, I’d forgotten that. Unfortunately, I have chosen to keep my hair short, so the hairdresser is my necessary friend.
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I used to have short hair until I liberated myself from the necessity 🙂
I have also been experimenting with what they call ‘no poo’ hair washing! Strange but true and having no connection whatsoever with real ales!
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I’ve heard of that, but haven’t got the courage to try it. And I don’t think I could make the effort to grow long hair now. Lockdown hair was bad enough!
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🙂
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These are hilarious. Sometimes these signs just make you burst out laughing when you come across them. I remember one in Japan kindly remind people to not stand on the toilets when using them, the illustration and red cross through it made it even funnier. I should have taken a photo.
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Definitely you should! Still, it’s in the photo album of your mind. I’m glad you enjoyed this selection.
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