THIS SIGN HAS NO SCRAP VALUE

Couldn't resist a laugh at this sticker I saw on the back of signage in Rotherham's temporary Forge Island bus station yesterday, and had to share!

Seagulls are aggressive: DO NOT FEED THEM - a poem

Gulls like trolls

Are aggressive

Do Not Feed,

There's no need

Disengage 

Your eyes from their gaze

Feign indifference

To belligerent ways

Keep your sandwich

In its wrapper

Don't share your battered

Cod or scratchings

Bullying hatchlings

Line the harbour wall

Let them be

Bellicose by the sea

Crumbs of comfort

Hidden away cos

Giving in to giving

Makes them more pugnacious

*****

While Brid Corporation

Isn't spying or judging

I fling a spare crust

In healthy high dudgeon

Catch the truculent gull

In a snap for posterity

Beak full of bread

Defying austerity

(c) Joyce Barrass 2015

Quirky signage

Don't you just love to let life's quirkiness and anomalies wash over you and tickle your funny muscles?


Was well enough (just!) to venture out last week and after a fun but exhausting visit to the Rotherham Show in Clifton Park, I later found myself slumped at a table outside the Cafe Rendezvous (sic) in the Travel Interchange AKA Rotherham Bus Station on Frederick Street. Being generally too zonked with beginnings of M.E. meltdown to pursue more intellectual or vigorous avenues, I fell to contemplating their signage.
Spotted that the main signs above the cafe were spelled incorrectly as CAFE RENDEVOUZ (see photo above).


Looked around and noticed that the rest of their signs, on the outside awnings (see photo below) and plate glass windows etc were all spelled in the correct French way as CAFE RENDEZVOUS. A ploy to get attention? A mistake too expensive to put right? 


Reminded me of that ball on a bridge over the Cam in Cambridge where a slice is missing and there's a tale that the stone mason did this as punishment for an unpaid bill. Also made me think of a grave in Finningley Churchyard near Doncaster where all the "N"s in the inscription are backwards (see bottom photo). Unpaid bill or ignorance? Willful or witless? Answers on a postcard. The Rende(z)vous/z makes a mean cappuccino, though.