Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Oranges are not the only fruit, look at the sign!


This is the kind of award-winning signage that makes Hull the special city it is. Not content with yellow on green announcing that this shop - ALANS FRUITERERS - deals in Quality Fruit And Vegetables, ALANS also taken out the top of the building to promote five-a-day and, just in case you're not entirely clear what fruit and veg is, ALANS also drawn you a few nice illustrations lest you pick up cans of lager instead of banana. Sadly, eating fruit and veg didn't improve this retailer's use of apostrophes on his original sign, although perhaps the long term use of satsumas was of benefit when the addition was made. Alan, oddly for a man who's not so keen on the possessive, also has the shop next door, the near-legendary and equally apostrophe-less ALANS NATURALLY, an outlet specialising in obscure and mostly inedible seeds and dried out old fruit. I wonder where they get the latter from?

Interesting old film playing on the oft-criticised big screen, showing the development of Ferensway, the exact same place currently being redeveloped in Hull right here, right now. Quite a crowd had gathered to watch in the rain. Let's hope the next batch of buildings on said site lasts more than 40-odd years.

9 comments:

Stephen Newton said...

My biggest blogging achievement so far is the removal of a yellow banner from a take away.

See how happy this made 'Anne'. (Surely not the same 'Anne' who speaks for the business.)

Anyway. I'm sure that now he's been exposed on Killing Time, Alan will place apostrophes as appropriate.

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