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Follow the Brown Signs Blog - September, 2023
Sleeping around (Europe on trains and ferries)
September 15, 2023
My sister sent me a text last week saying “they’ve just announced a new sleeper train service from Paris to Berlin”. “Shitting bloody WOW!” I responded, naturally. And in the split second after reading that text it was decided in my mind that I would be getting on that train. The first one out of Paris (or indeed Berlin, depending on which city it started from) if I possibly could, and if not the very first then at the very earliest opportunity.
I’ve just found out that I’m autistic. In a...
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Achingly beautiful laments after loss
October 12, 2021
Część losowys!*
* technically I think this translates as “hi randoms” in Polish, but unsurprisingly I couldn’t find an accurate translation for “randomers”, crashing on….
Today is what I like to call Travellers Tuesday! One of the best days of the week to join me for more random brown signing adventures brought to you from, well, anywhere in the world frankly, you just never know with me.
So today losowys we’re in Poland! You’ve probably noticed the above sign is not your regular white-on-brown tourist sign, more a brown-on-white one...Read more >>
Follow The Brown Signs CPR… it’s been emotional
October 8, 2021
A few weeks ago I was contacted by a journalist from The Sun. He'd got wind of my somewhat quirky hobby and wanted to feature me in a light-hearted piece for the paper. He called and interviewed me about what I do and why, and I ended up talking to him for quite a while (picture of said article left, it slightly misses the point of what I do but any publicity is good publicity, right?).
I hadn't been interviewed for some time before then, but throughout this project I've often...Read more >>
“Uh-hu before you abuse, criticise and accuse walk a mile in my shoes” so sang Elvis…
September 18, 2015
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I've been excited about the opening of the Empathy Museum since I first read about its crowd funding campaign in August (through Indiegogo). The concept of a pop-up museum in a shipping container resonated with me immediately, not just because I'm rather fond of hosting random exhibitions in shipping containers given the chance but also because the museum's founder is Roman Krznaric, also a founder member of the innovative and life affirming School of Life in London and author of the book How To Find Fulfilling Work (a must-read for anyone struggling to find their...Read more >>
… but that’s another story
July 27, 2015
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A few weeks ago Go Set A Watchman, the sequel to To Kill A Mockingbird and the original manuscript that the aspiring author Harper Lee presented to her publisher in the 1950s was published and released after being presumed lost for over 60 years. The announcement of the finding and subsequent publication of the manuscript, which had spawned one of the most iconic books of all time, understandably received a monumental build up in the literary world. The climax exploded early on publication day and by 7 am when I got up...Read more >>
The bell doth toll for the Bromley Museum
June 17, 2015
Last week those of us who'd been watching the increasingly downward spiral of events unfolding at a small local museum in south east London finally heard the news confirmed that no one wanted to hear. It was not at all unexpected but nevertheless still immensely sad and frustrating that the local authority eventually announced they would be closing Bromley Museum forever as of the 1st of October 2015. No plans have been put in place to rehouse and show the collection elsewhere (unless you call a few display cabinets in an unstaffed...Read more >>
Defunct museums, rivalry to the death and the Egyptian Pharaoh hanging out at Niagara Falls
October 24, 2014
Ahh, greetings fair blog reader* and how goes it? I haven't had those eyes feast themselves on this here blog for a while so I'm pleased to welcome you back.
*Quick aside: if a blogger writes a "web log" and is commonly referred to as a "blogger" how does one refer to a "blog" "reader"? Are you a "bleader"? I think you are, you look like one an' all. I've digressed and I hadn't even started, sorry, back to my web logging...
In the last few months I've been going out less...Read more >>
The abandoned theme park of Camelot
June 29, 2014
This symbol adorned the brown sign pointing to a theme park called Camelot, in Lancashire. I remember trying to find out what it was a few years ago when my friend Simon at Buchanan Computing sent me a road sign design software package with lots of "locally approved" unique brown sign symbols pre-loaded onto it (he knew I'd really like them you see). Unsurprisingly this symbol caught my attention and so too did it capture @gars_grumbles imagination. She tweeted me yesterday:
@lovebrownsigns flipping through your blog and saw the unique princess...Read more >>
Lincoln gets some long awaited brown sign highway cred
June 26, 2014
Last year I was contacted by BBC radio Lincolnshire and asked to give an interview about Lincoln's long running campaign to get brown tourist signs on the A1. I agreed and, as I said in my interview, was quite surprised the city didn't have them already (the interview is here if you'd like to listen):
listen to ‘BBC Lincolnshire can't get enough of this brown sign bonanza!’ on Audioboo
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It turns out that the Lincoln Business Improvement Group (BIG) have been appealing to the Highways Agency and then finally through their MP to...Read more >>
News of a scuttling
June 17, 2014
Since moving out of the Big Smoke Bristol is now my closest city. Just voted the best UK city to live according to The Sunday Times it has the winning mix of nearby countryside, lovely houses, good schools and "buzzy" feel. Its cultural and industrial heritage is outstanding, with Banksy daubing its streets and rolling stock since the early '90s and Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge and famous docks looking as grand and impressive as when the largest ships in the world once sailed from them, Bristolians have justifiable reason to be proud...Read more >>