Not a door?

Or, as René Magritte might have said, “Ceci n’est pas une porte”

Plus ça change

When my wife was a secondary school teacher many years ago she had the unpleasant experience of being threatened by a knife-wielding pupil. 

If this sales promotion — seen in a store in Atherstone, Warwickshire — is anything to go by, teachers still face the same risk. 

Black-only parking

This apparently racist sign can be seen in Calgary, Canada. 

If you are a White permit holder, a First Nations permit holder or an Asian permit holder, you presumably have to find some other place to park between 6am and 5pm on weekdays. 

(For those who don't understand my reference to "First Nations", it is Canada's equivalent of the USA's "Native Americans".)

Thanks for the warning

Sidmouth invaded by triffids

Well maybe not triffids, but almost as dangerous, if the Sidmouth Herald is to be believed.

  

According to this worthy local newspaper, the town has been invaded by feral onions that have reduced tourists to tears. Visitors are lulled into a false sense of security because “the tiny plants resemble a meadow of pretty white wildflowers”. But they are actually illegal immigrants  from the Mediterranean — “Allium triquetrum, part of the same family as onions and garlic” — and “they give off a potent pong which is wafting across Sidmouth forcing disgusted tourists and locals to hold their noses”.

  

“Worse still,” the paper continues, “the smelly interlopers are actually wiping out native species like the bluebells, a distant cousin, that carpet much of the town’s pretty lawns and promenades.”

But not so slippery now

Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland, UK

Some people go both ways

These signs (two from the USA and one from Greece) remind me of Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. When Dorothy wonders which road to take, Scarecrow says:“Pardon me, this way is a very nice way . . . . It's pleasant down that way, too . . . . Of course, some people do go both ways.”