To end the year here are a few of the year’s amusing sightings:
Vegetarian Housing Association
[www.veghousing.org.uk]
Pure natural spray tan
[Rembrant (sic) Hairdresser, Roman Road, E2; 07/02/2006]
Apple & Blackberry Pie Sticky Pudding
[The Audley, Mount Street, W1; 11/02/2006]
“This train is due to arrive and terminate into Glasgow Central at …”
[Announcement on GNER train 09/01/2006] (my emphasis)
Book by Dr Robert Latou Dickinson; Human Sex Anatomy: A Topographical Hand Atlas
Quantum Buddhism
[New Scientist; 11/02/2006]
Locally Grown Alternative Newspaper
Reference to a “SOAP/AXL Interface” – something to do with databases
[IBM presentation on VoIP]
Electric Egg Boiler
www.penisland.net
[Pen Island, a genuine company]
Is the Welsh alphabet written in digraphs?
[cix:railtrack/correspondence:1746]
Do not lock your bicycle on these railings as they will be forcibly removed
[Notice seen by Noreen at Crofton Park Rail Station, Kent; 25/09/2006]
Mills, Lockyer, Church & Evill
[Solicitors? in Finsbury Square, London, EC2 in 1930]
Here’s wishing everyone a propsperous and fun 2007!