1 June 2009
Too much information
Only in England would someone take the trouble to make a slate message board like the above. It's mounted outside a small second hand shop on Malvern's Bellevue Terrace and seemed, today at least, more or less to sum up the difference between Malvern and Doha. There should be no need to enlarge on that.
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No please do enlarge... I'm most curious!
ReplyDeleteGreetings Honz - the sign just seemed typical of the English brand of eccentricity which is absent from the stark regime in Doha. Dubai can be a bit eccentric but usually only in ways that involve spending huge sums of cash!
ReplyDeleteIn marble too? Very nice.
ReplyDeleteBovine C.