The signs are there By Steve Way

 Hi, I hope all is good with all of you. It's been that crazy beginning of term time again, so I haven't made time to write something more substantial (presuming I ever write anything substantial!) so I'm sharing some more sill signs and limericks that I doodled down in amongst tasks. I hope you enjoy them!

BATH Can you take a hint? A shower would do…	Now you’ve been to STONEHENGE Why not visit BEATLEHENGE?
DORSET So we can’t get in or out, unfortunately…	CHESTER Somewhere great to buy furniture.
MEDWAY A great place to rest on a long journey.	DORCHESTER Even more stock available than in Chester!
COVENTRY Visit the tree popular with witches.	MANCHESTER For all your specifically masculine furniture requirements.
COVENTRY Where you’ll always find someone to talk to. (If you’re already here, no one can send you here.)	WINCHESTER Wardrobes to be won every week!
Coventry Riding School Yes, we’ve heard that suggestion hundreds of times…	Welcome to the city of EN-SUITE ‘Even posher than Bath’.
Welcome to CIRENCESTER A noisy place	Welcome to SWAFHAM A town largely free of flies.
Welcome to the city of BILBOA A magnificent city with much to offer but with absolutely no connection with ‘The Hobbit’.	Welcome to the city of BATH Soak in the sights.
Godalming v. a harmless but pointless activity involving turnips (M.Eng) ‘Verily we went a Godalming amongst the turnip fields’ Shakespeare The lost plays
There was a daft fellow from York, Who travelled to Leeds on a stork, The problem he found, When reaching the ground, Was losing the power to walk.	There was a young man from Leeds, Perpetrator of nefarious deeds, Pleading ‘not guilty’ at court, The witnesses thought, He’s done for however he pleads.
There once was a girl from Dunblane, Who hiccupped again and again, Her mum tried a scare, By releasing a bear, Before realising her idea insane.	There once was a huge man from Maine, Who suffered a curious pain, When asked where it hurt, He pulled up his shirt, Where he’d clearly been hit by – a train!
An inept inventor from Rhyl, ‘Invented’ a curative  pill, He went on to say, ‘forget RNA’, For my cure-all is here to stay’. But doctors use RNA still.

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Surprising things happen to 'Bongo the Armadillo', usually when he is sitting in his garden having a cup of tea. The 'Bongo the Armadillo' children's stories are short narrative cartoons where anything can happen, no matter how surreal. In this volume Bongo is visited by two flags, with the wrong nationality inside them, the British Army (who have had all their tea stolen), all the snails in the world, a squirrel-shaped elephant, himself five minutes ahead and behind himself and the three brass monkeys, who don't think they portray enough senses. After that some very strange things happen. The stories are particularly designed to grab the interest of reluctant readers who would be put off by lengthy texts but who enjoy the ridiculous and quirky. The stories all have a reassuring repeat structure, which also supports reluctant readers. I have also used the stories to support reluctant writers who can lean on the stable format in which to inject their own ideas. (I can provide templates if required.) 

As Bongo often says, "That didn't happen yesterday." Enjoy Bongo's unique and unusual world!