CHAT-SIGN OF THE TIMES-Weekly Comp 3-10 Feb 2019

[Hinfrance]

This week's challenge is SIGN OF THE TIMES.

This is the CHAT THREAD

The ENTRIES THREAD is HERE

SIGN OF THE TIMES - take it literally and show us a photograph featuring a road sign, a poster or other billboard type of thing, or be a bit more creative if you get the chance.

Pictures to be taken between now and Sunday 10th February 2019, 23:59, but if you find yourself at a loss in this time period, please enter something from your personal archives.
Pictures to be posted in the entries thread no later than 23:59 Monday 11th February 2019.
Poll will be up Tuesday 12th February 2019.

Winner to be announced Saturday 16th February 2019
The Rules for the weekly competition are...

By entering you agree to take responsibility to

Post a topic on the Sunday (or sooner) following your declared win
Create an entries thread
Create a chat thread
Create a poll for that weeks comp and declare the winner on the Saturday
(if for any reason there is a problem and no subject is posted by the winner by Monday night admin will advise second place winner to post the topic asap, do the poll etc)

In case of a tie, the first entry posted wins.

[jinky]

I went on a walkabout in Leeds and got lots of nice other shots but no apt signs. This guitar shop  one made me smile ( are you guilty of any of those H?) but I think my early entry is the one from the Cinque Terre. It pre-dated the current Brexit debacle but has some relevance to where we are I feel and is a bit of common sense in these blustering colonial days we seem to have fallen into in the UK.




Talking to the guy in the shop he says it`s from the heart and he`s gently thrown out 2 young lads this week for failing to comply. He`s great fun. I remember years ago doing a model shoot in the Corn Exchange Leeds where he is and he loaned me 2 of his best guitars to shoot out of his sight in and around the building with no deposits, no signatures - nothing. Too trusting and glad he is still in business.
Unless I get time , see another this will be my entry from my archives.
EU Refuse to Compromise with Brits

[Hinfrance]

I went on a walkabout in Leeds and got lots of nice other shots but no apt signs. This guitar shop  one made me smile ( are you guilty of any of those H?) but I think my early entry is the one from the Cinque Terre. It pre-dated the current Brexit debacle but has some relevance to where we are I feel and is a bit of common sense in these blustering colonial days we seem to have fallen into in the UK.

Not guilty of playing any songs in music shops, but audiences do like SHA, in moderation. I would probably add anything by Ed Sheeran to the list . .

[SimonW]

Still "confined to barracks" following the appendectomy, but feeling pretty good and getting stir crazy. And it's pouring rain today anyway. So I shot this just in case I don't get the opportunity to take a better entry.



I hoped it would show the rain on the window but it doesn't though the reflections of the flowers are visible.

Simon

[jinky]

I went on a walkabout in Leeds and got lots of nice other shots but no apt signs. This guitar shop  one made me smile ( are you guilty of any of those H?) but I think my early entry is the one from the Cinque Terre. It pre-dated the current Brexit debacle but has some relevance to where we are I feel and is a bit of common sense in these blustering colonial days we seem to have fallen into in the UK.

Not guilty of playing any songs in music shops, but audiences do like SHA, in moderation. I would probably add anything by Ed Sheeran to the list . .

Nooooo! I like Ed Sheeran. Seen him twice. Love watching him build the sound with his loops. certainly knows how to market his stuff now - new guitar business on top of everything else. not bad for someone described  as "Just a busker" .

[Hinfrance]

Still "confined to barracks" following the appendectomy, but feeling pretty good and getting stir crazy. And it's pouring rain today anyway. So I shot this just in case I don't get the opportunity to take a better entry.

I hoped it would show the rain on the window but it doesn't though the reflections of the flowers are visible.

Simon

Hope you are up and 100% again soon.

I know exactly what I want to get, but circumstances have been conspiring against me this week. Gone out three times with the intention of getting the shot(s) and had to pivot (to use a start up tech cliché) every time and ended up with something more pressing to deal with.

[Oldboy]

Sorry to hear that Simon. Hope things improve fast. 

Me, I just got a heavy cold. 

[Jediboy]

Hope you're doing well Simon. God speed.

I'm struggling with this one. Been thinking lots but achieving nothing.

[Hinfrance]

And the opposite to Oldboy's - GJ



Last week, before the latest snub from the EU commission (Siemens/Alstom merger being blocked) support for Frexit had reached more than 40% . .

[Oldboy]

What amazed me was that someone took the time to design and print the sticker before, putting it on the EU sign. The EU sign is quite small, about the size of a A4 sheet. I voted to remain.