Road Closed Until....Errrrm

One of those partially closed road signs.

Another example of the mental maths here to calculate 4 weeks from 18th May....and typically while driving. Maybe working out things like what day is/was 18th and how many days in May to calculate 4 weeks.....

Easier and clearer to simply have the finish date....

Good Luck Gate

Now this is where a sign is missing. A gate for a path at a National Trust Park.

It's fantastic design, which allows the gate to open in either direction.  It's also a lovely piece of engineering. and quite different to the usual gate catches.  But looking at it it's really difficult to see how it operates, not made any easier by the fact that it was fitted a little low.  It turns out it's easy to get fingers caught too.  So a sign with two messages please, how to operate and how to avoid getting fingers caught.

Do not.....ouch

Here's some tempting looking hot pasties...plenty of reasons to have a closer look....check what they are, how they look and how much....fingers crossed we can make out the rather ineffective "Hot do not touch" sign in time....Maybe it's the unintended consequences of the paste tax....below a certain temperate relative to room temperature, so no longer officially "hot".

Permitted Perambulators

A lovely old sign from a passage way in the Norfolk Coastal town of Sherringham.  Would have been a serious sign for it's time.  Perambulator is a predecessor term for pram, and they sure were bigger in those days.

Only 3 Mind Reading Children

A message seen from time to time....Only 3 school children at once.

It's really a statement of internal policy.

As a child on the outside thinking of going in, how would you know how many children were inside to know whether you could go in an be under the limit or potentially chastised for being that 4th child....

This "only" also points to three being the only number, not two or one.

And how would you know if they were school children or not? Maybe the implication here is school uniform. But then what about those older ones 17 with beards, casually dressed, still a child still at school......

Loo Logic

Here's a not uncommon sign to be found in the cafe loo....

Please only put toilet tissue down the toilet.  Really? The only thing is toilet tissue!  What about the human waste?  May be it's just obvious that there are implicit exceptions to this.  Otherwise this sign fails in it's direction each time the loo is used of course.

That "only" word does get mis-used, often due to confusion about scope.  In some places this has evolved to be more specific....about not putting nappies and sanitary products going down there.