On a *slightly* related topic, I drove down to Lytham St Annes a couple of weeks back using my a printed copy of Google directions as my navigator. Not once did I follow a sign for St Annes. And there were plenty of them. Instead I followed the Google instructions to the letter and got there in good time, despite going in the, seemingly, opposite direction from that which the signs were attempting to dictate.

Fab post, loved it.
Hope your dog's gonna be OK btw.

Thanks, Tom. He's still in hospital, but quite cheerful.

No particular comment except to say I agree with Tom and think it's a great post!

am groaning with laughter.

thanks for the giggle

(I found you through today's Roundup.)

Hmm. I remember I was in a car once, and we reached a roundabout: all four exits of the roundabout were signposted to the same one place. No other details were given, and no other places signed.

And this was in Northern Ireland.

So while I'm happy to accept everything you say about roadsigns in the south, I'm reluctant to believe that the north is much better.

So what you're saying is that every exit off this roundabout was signposted? Well, that's already about 50% better than your average Republican roundabout. Also, I bet the reason why all four roads were signposted to the same place is that they all went to the same place. We have plenty of pointless junctions on pointless roads, but we at least tell strangers how pointless they are.

Brilliant! Ireland sounds like Pennsylvania. So are you a distant cousin of Clay Shirky?

That is good. Thank you.