Just been out to Porthtowan (Togo-land, as to holidays) to pick up the Order of Service cards for my god-daughter's wedding in ten days - they are now en route to London.
Coming back through the lanes, we went through Mount Hawke. Driving into the village someone had carefully whitened out the village road sign Under 'Mount Hawke' it read 'Please d i e carefully in the Village.'
Probably the most stolen roadsign in Kent, saw it when on holiday with Mr & Mrs B. http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/54061000/jpg/_54061033_54061032.jpg
There`s a florist in East Molesey called the Buttonhole. People kept taking the o and n down. They now have a perspex sign that doesn`t have individual letters. I`ve seen the O taken off the sign for the clothes shop in Hong Kong called (not sure if this will come out) W a n k o
The Paris Metro used to have seats reserved for 'mutilés de guerre' (war wounded). Kids would scrape away at the word 'guerre' until it looked like 'cul' (bum).
There's a high school in a nearby town named "Monseigneur Denis O'Dweyer High School", and every September somebody, probably one of the new crop of grade nine students, has to elongate downwards the vertical portion of the "D".
We actually have the one mentioned earlier where I live. Please drive carefully through village says please die carefully rough village. Each time it's put right some naughty person scrapes it back.