Sun 30.Jul.2017
York, UK
I've included some of Yorkshire's entertaining signage in the previous pages. Here are more samples
that did not make their way in.
As an American, I've heard hamburgers called many things in my life,
but only in England have I ever heard them called Proper!
Then again, I suppose there are the improper kind...
"I first tried to write a story when I was about seven. It was about a dragon. I remember nothing
about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that
one could not say 'a green great dragon', but had to say 'a great green dragon'. I wondered why, and
still do." - JRRT
Dragon of Knaresborough.
Dragon of Whitby.
The Moat Buttery, which is not the same as a buttery moat, is in Knaresborough.
With these Things You Don't Need, we are back in York for the rest of the page.
Does this door count as a sign? If I remember right, it is painted on, cats and all.
All Saints Pavement
is the name of the church, not the sidewalk or even the street.
Tweeters, a woofer, and even a sub-woofer.
Fabulous Cat Trail?!?
Your guess is as good as mine.
Decisions!
Imperatives!
Evocatives!
So help me, this is the real name of a (very short) street in York! I am told that it was once
customary to bring people here to beat them up.
Here is as good a note as any to go out on. If this doesn't give you your earworm for the day,
nothing will.
So we leave Legendary Yorkshire fading into the mists. I failed even to mention the connection
of Dracula to Whitby; thems as have read Stoker's version probably remember, others should google it
if they are interested.
I am still sitting on a backlog of pictures from a half-dozen locations, and now that my time is
short in Slovakia, I have a stack of images from here (and Vienna) as well. So what next? I haven't
decided. We shall see soon enough.
Ciao!