Legal Lawn

In London's legal quarter, there are several large private courtyards and grassed areas, open to the public for limited times during the day, usually around lunchtime.  Here's one of those that subtly re-enforces that legal sense that access is not a right but is permissive.  So to add to the more usual message of "Please keep off the grass" which in most cases is usually sufficient, this is re-enforces that legal-ease closure message for the lawn.

Inconvenient Convenience

From the loo door in a garden centre.  Not only is this loo out of order, it seems like it's doubly out of order.  Why use when one sign when you can use two.  

Maybe the lower sign is in some way of recognition of the spelling mistake in the top sign of convenience missing the "V".

There's also something magical about the apology for the inconvenience of this convenience being out of action.....

Only Average Bacon

A super market promotion, a big display promoting bacon.  One pound per pack.  Eight rashers in the pack. But on close inspection there is some small print....the eight rashers is just an 'average'.

So the promise is only as good as an average of eight rashers.  So maybe more or less rashers.  So 7 rashers is 12.5% difference, that's quite a big discrepancy, although technically of course the pack is sold by weight.  And that would assume it's an exact weight, which must be tricky to get right. 

That creates some interesting maths opportunities...suffice it to say that depending on how the average is calculated that could mean lots lets bacon.  Excuse the pun.

So a median average of eight could be achieved by having 1000 packs with 7 with rashers and 1001 with eight rashers..... That's a thousand missing rashers or the equivalent of 125 packs (of eight).  

Car Boat Park

Sun setting on the Norfolk coast.  It's the car park.  Actually the car and boat park.

There's lots going on here.  So if you're a national trust member then it appears that parking is free and there are different rates for each type of vehicle.  But once 6pm happens then "All Vehicles" are £1.00.  What about those members with their vehicles, are they still free, after all it does clearly say "all vehicles". In practice the free membership probably holds sway.  But while that might not apply to the wheeled vehicles, but does that apply to boat parking.The thing is there's lots of dimensions going on here.  Firstly there's members, secondly there is different vehicle types and thirdly different time periods.

Doctor Doctor

This is from a hospital consultation room.

The implication here is that all doctors are male.  Certainly not politically correct for November 2013.

Someone's had a go at the correction though....

And if that was not enough, it's not longer a sick-note, with that air of positive uplift, it is now of course a
Fit-Note (Statement of Fitness to work).

Hands Off!

One of the more effective signs....what not to do, what to do, and engaging language.

So the instruction "Hands Off"....a familiar and engaging phrase, and needs to be with such a short time to capture attention before wanting to lift the lid.

Then the positive direction "Pedal operation only" that rounds it off.