Whaat? Signage in Britain and some exercise options

The signage has been interesting in Britain.  Some sort of different, some informative, some unfathomable.  Here's a bit.

This was one of the first signs we saw as we were struggling our way from Gatwick to Rudgwick.  Whaat?  As it turns out, "cats eyes" are the bright spots in a divider lane's markings.  This learned through the internet.  

Naked lights -- unlensed, I believe.  So no sparks.  

I just liked the visual in this one.

Budweiser, a Czech import.  

This was in a public bathroom that cost 20pence (about 30 cents), and it was the handwashing devide -- all in one bowl -- follow the signs above.  Pretty compact, economic and cool.

Still haven't figured this one out.

They use the term "crawler" to describe the slow lanes on the high grade inclines of highways .  Signs read "use  crawler lane", and this one.  HCVs and HGVs are big trucks (hybrid cargo vehicles and heavy goods vehicles).

Sorry,  . . . 

These signs are solar and sometimes additionally wind powered, and flash when cars approach.  It also comes in a speed version, that flashes "slow down" when over the speed limit.

These two signs in the town of Scarborough, a port town in NW England ("are you going to Scarborough Faire . . . parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme") helped me realize how little I know about real fish.  No idea what some of these are - - and they were all available at this shop on the wharf.  Jellied eels?  Roll Mops?  Woof?

I thought this was nicely gentle.  Besides the ovbiously disabled,  "Other people may also need to sit more than you do."  Nice.

This was at a metro station at a town called Wallsend, which is the eastern end of Hadrian's wall , which  provided a barrier between Roman England and the northern barbarians, the Scots.  All the signage in the metro station was in English and in Latin, the language of the Romans.  Nice way to underline the heritage.

We went to a weird Victorian science museum -- really weird, a 2 hour presentation to just Steve and me that took place in a tiny stuff-filed room of an 80-year old science guy.  It was interesting, and included these ephemera related to the radiation section of his demos.

During the 40s, radiation was thought to be beneficial and so the above, and below.

And finally, about exercise.  I ran across an early 1900s exercise machine, similar to our stationary bikes, but made to simulate horse riding, for men and for women.

for men

women had to do it sidesaddle, of course.

the machine itself

One afternoon on a drive back to our place we happened across a cricket match.  We stopped and watched for a bit, and never did figure it out.  There was lots of running, the pitching was surprisingly not fluid, and otherwise not much action.  But they had a good time, it was a lovely day, and there was pretty much scoring  of "overs" and "wickets" , and lots of encouraging banter and gentle heckling of the opponents.  And pints afterwards.  Life is good.