Apostrophe Application Agreed
For years the debate has raged.
At the end of our land, signs are varied ...
... but "officially" lacking the apostrophe. When you get there, the scenery is superb ...
... but spoiled by the "retail experience" ...
... which does sport its apostrophe!
One land, ended! The US based clothing firm also enjoys that delightful superscript tick ...
... that many lands end at its lighthouse.
First Kernow is apostrophised on its network map ...
... and its timetable.
But the buses aren't.
Now, as a result of a Cornwall Council meeting recently IT HAS BEEN DECIDED ...
... that the official name will for ever be ...
... and don't you forget it. Or the piskies will get you!
... that the official name will for ever be ...
... and don't you forget it. Or the piskies will get you!
A Scotsman in Geneva
Correspondent James, who has sent fbb some stuff from Geneva (more later this week) also sent this intriguing picture.
This bus is very obviously from the UK but it is parked near Geneva's main railway station. It is fitted out for "community" purposes and one on-line writer reported a significant odour of cannabis!
The exterior has appeared in a variety of guises. The "trading name" is "Car Touche" but the nearside (Schweiz) offside (UK) has had various "treatments" from the simple ...
... to the utterly baffling!
Tax discs from years past have allowed enthusiasts to successfully identify the beastie.
And here it is.
A gorgeous, fully lined, traditionally lettered Leyland from Alexander Midland, so liveried in preservation.
Pity it was sold. Anybody like to offer to buy it back?
Technology Triumphs Again - NOT!
Yet again we see the consequences of mindlessly allowing your confuser system to control your publicity output. Here is a frame display snapped last week in Hawick by correspondent John.
No timetables, of course, but, as usual, you can work our roughly when you might arrive by doing some simple math. But look closely at route H2.
It goes "towards Town Service", a suburb of Hawick not found on any map. John muses cynically that it might be a musprint for the delightful village of ...
... not far from the better known (?) Kirk Yetholm.
Possibly not!
Do local authority staff ever read what their systems impersonally and unthinkingly disgorge? Or is it the usual policy; "if the confuser says so, it must be right"?
We Plough The Fields But We Don't Scatter
At least not in the way the Hymn writer imagined.
For much of his brain-use time over the past few days, fbb and Mrs have been preparing his Church's Harvest Service and lunch. 30 folk will sit/have sat down to a two course meal after today's service. (depends on when you are reading this blog)
The Church is decorated with "harvest gifts" ...
... which will go to the Seaton Food Bank.
The central display, however is a mixture of traditional and less so.
The lap top reminds the congregation that even technology has its origins in the seed, the soil and the gifts of God's Grace. But the sewing machine?
This leads into a video from TEAR Fund which shows the charity supporting poverty by providing, not food or medicine (although these are vital) but sewing machines to enable the folk to make and sell clothes and lift themselves from the challenge of poverty.
The traditional hymn is part of the service, but with two verses replaced by a very different version.
We plough the fields with tractors,
With drills we sow the land;
But growth is still dependent
On God’s almighty hand.
Organic fertilisers
Will help the growing grain,
But for its full fruition
It needs God’s sun and rain.
To gather in the harvest
Machines now lead the way.
We reap the the fields with combines,
We bale the new mown hay;
But it is God who gives us
Inventive skills and drive;
Which lighten daily labour
And give us fuller lives!
The service is entitled "Harvest Crunch - Harvest Lunch" ...
... the "Crunch" being to ask how seriously we take out Faith, our responsibility to serve others and our response to God's eternal harvest of his followers.
The Tunnel In Bude
Rail enthusiasts will search their maps and history books in vain for a tunnel in Bude.
The railway, it's station and its famous Summer trains are all long gone.
To find today's tunnel you need to wend your way along Crooklets Road to the Sainsburys store.
Running alongside the shop, and alongside the side road Erdiston Court, you will find one of the longest foot tunnels in the west.
It leads from the shop entrance to the car park ...
... and has become a huge success on Social Media.
You can even buy a postcard!
Couldn't they have designed the store with a back entrance?
Nostalgia moment for fbb! When Weston Favell District Centre opened (40ish years ago) just across the fields from his family home at Little Billing (Northampton), access from the surrounding footpaths was by bridges in the form of tunnels glazed with tinted glass/plastic.
Very spooky!
The upgraded (?) replacements ...
... are far less entertaining!
And unpleasant in inclement weather.
The content and quality of tomorrow's blog will be entirely dependent on how awake fbb may be after today's Service and Lunch! But will likely be more "bits and pieces" before we move on to Geneva.
Next undecided blog : Monday 17th September
Speaking of punctuation: anything is better than "Pea's".
ReplyDeleteWith regards to the "Towards: Town Service" display, no of course it shouldn't be like that.
ReplyDeleteBut perhaps FBB would be interested to note that the most common reason for sick leave among local authority staff is stress and the associated mental health problems - we had an email to that effect as recently as last Friday afternoon. Having recognised that statistic or HR people are trying to put mitigation in place, but there is no escaping from the fact that things are tough in local government at the moment.
The team looking after our bus services and associated publicity used to be 12 people, now it is 6. But we still support almost as many bus services, and are providing transport for more school children. Not only that the team are getting more requests (demands would be more accurate) for transport for non-entitled children and suffering abusive phone calls from parents.
Make no mistake, that display shouldn't be like that. But a little understanding of the situation the officer who created it is probably in would not go amiss.