Recent Posts Tagged With 'signs'

• Cambridge: Home of Anglia Ruskin University

  Posted on Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 13:35 in signs, photo special

  I spotted this sign while on the train to Ely recently:Cambridge, home of Anglia Ruskin University.Wait a minute - isn't there another university in Cambridge too? I can't for the life of me remember what it's called... ...

• Nuts 4 Beer

  Posted on Friday August 7th, 2009 at 16:39 in beer, signs, ambiguity, camra, great british beer festival, nuts 4 beer

  I didn't blog yesterday because I was at the Great British Beer Festival.Talking of which, you'd have to be desperate for a pint to take up this offer: ...

• Photo special: 'NO LOCALS'

  Posted on Tuesday July 14th, 2009 at 14:28 in Photograph, holiday, signs, norfolk, haven, great yarmouth, no locals, caister

  Many places in the UK are unwelcoming to strangers and outsiders, and I've been to my fair share of them. However, before this weekend, I'd never seen anything like this:Yes, the signs says "NO LOCALS". It adds: "Any locals found playing on our machi...

• 'Stand up or lay down'

  Posted on Saturday July 11th, 2009 at 03:00 in lie, confusion, signs, croydon, lay, sunbed

  Here's a good example of lie/lay confusion.I don't want to be too prescriptivist or anything, but most people would agree that the sign should read 'Stand up or lie down...'I'm not going to go into too much detail about 'lie' and 'lay' because doing ...

• STBO

  Posted on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 at 07:48 in signs, ferries, warnings, isle of wight, apus, stating the obvious, insolent

  It's good to see the operators of the ferries that ply the Solent take safety seriously, even at the risk of stating the bleedin' obvious (although if the ferry took on a list the warning might become inaccurate).By the way, Douglas Adams' excellent ...

• All bags and coats cannot be reclaimed

  Posted on Thursday May 14th, 2009 at 03:00 in London, signs, passive voice, battersea, cloakroom, active voice

  Yes, I'm still on holiday. Here's something else I found down the back of my hard drive:So I lose my ticket, and nobody can reclaim any bags and coats until the end of the night? That doesn't seem fair... and what a strange shift from the active to t...

• Live Italian singer

  Posted on Wednesday May 13th, 2009 at 03:00 in humour, singer, pubs, signs, huntington

  Yet another out-of-focus photo taken in a pub, although this time there's a difference - the pub was in Huntington.Anyway: this place has a "live Italian singer" in on Monday. I suppose that's better than getting a dead one in. ...

• Subbing and how it impacts you

  Posted on Monday May 11th, 2009 at 03:00 in posters, effect, workplace, signs, subbing, impact, corrections, affect

  I took this shot in my workplace (using my camera phone, hence the poor picture quality).The message to take away from this is: be careful what signs and posters you put up around subs. And no, those corrections aren't mine!'Impact' is, however, one ...

• No hats, hoods, proof of age or alcohol

  Posted on Sunday May 10th, 2009 at 03:00 in alcohol, bar, hats, ban, signs

  I'm still on holiday so here's another photo from my collection:So this bar has banned hats and hoods... but has also banned proof of age and alcohol? Time to rethink the sign, perhaps.(I can't actually remember where I took this snap - sorry!) ...

• Beware the escalator of death

  Posted on Sunday May 3rd, 2009 at 16:26 in spain, airport, escalator, signs, apus

  Having spent the past week in Spain I could pass on examples of silly solecisms but I won't because it's hardly fair to sneer at our multi-lingual Continental cousins when so few Brits are prepared to learn foreign languages (my droog JD is an except...

• 'The best heated smoking area in Whetstone...'

  Posted on Sunday May 3rd, 2009 at 13:05 in London, pubs, signs, whetstone, beer garden, smoking area, the griffin

  This sign made me laugh. So the pub in question, The Griffin, has "the best heated smoking area in Whetstone with a big screen"...Whetstone isn't exactly the largest area of London - so how many pubs there have a heated smoking area with a big screen...

• Photo special: this week special large beer

  Posted on Sunday March 8th, 2009 at 07:36 in beer, madeira, signs, funchal

  I spotted this sign outside a cafe in Funchal, Madeira last year. Down by the harbour, as I recall.(If you can't see the photo, the sign reads: "THIS WEEK SPECIAL LARGE BEER".)It makes me wonder. Is the large beer special because it is being offer...

• Queue here for tickets for future travel

  Posted on Wednesday March 4th, 2009 at 11:05 in trains, Tickets, future, signs, railways, gingerous

  Gingerous has emailed us with the following:At London Euston station this weekend I noticed a sign at the ticket booths that read "Queue here for tickets for future travel". Which made me ask the question: why would you buy tickets for past travel? S...

• Field Stile Road / Fieldstile Road

  Posted on Tuesday February 17th, 2009 at 17:01 in signs, place names, southwold, fieldstile road

  While one English city has banned apostrophes from its street names "to avoid confusion", it seems that not everywhere in the UK is so worried about consistency in naming:Sorry about the awful picture quality, I took the photos in the dark with my ca...