This rather fuzzy photo (must have been water on the lens) from yesterday's Thames paddle is of Barnes bridge and there is a bale of straw hanging underneath: why?
According to Byelaw 29 (section 2) of the Port of London Authority’s River Byelaws 1978: “When the headroom of an arch or span is reduced, but still open to traffic, the following signals shall be suspended from the centre of that arch. By night: 1 white light, by day: a bundle of straw large enough to be easily visible.”
Baydog: to be honest I was wondering about that line. I know that in very expensive restaurants you can pay to eat what most people consider weeds but that would mean "You pay them to eat weed"
It could have been worse... the headline could have been, "And now we know where some of the bale-out money has gone" or the even more baleful, "Bale jumps bail and bails from bridge's bailiwick".
According to Byelaw 29 (section 2) of the Port of London Authority’s River Byelaws 1978: “When the headroom of an arch or span is reduced, but still open to traffic, the following signals shall be suspended from the centre of that arch. By night: 1 white light, by day: a bundle of straw large enough to be easily visible.”
ReplyDeleteAn answer and before the mid point of the 2nd half of the game .
ReplyDeleteAnd yup, Tillerman, you are correct!
Great rule :)
Hay is for horses,
ReplyDeletebut cows like it too.
Straw is cheaper,
grass is free,
and they pay you
to eat weeds.
Weed? Was it a little weed?
ReplyDeleteJP: What do you think of them yanks? They should have gotten the W, don't you think?
Baydog: to be honest I was wondering about that line. I know that in very expensive restaurants you can pay to eat what most people consider weeds but that would mean "You pay them to eat weed"
ReplyDeleteI am just an 'umble Lond'ner
It could have been worse... the headline could have been,
ReplyDelete"And now we know where some of the bale-out money has gone" or the even more baleful, "Bale jumps bail and bails from bridge's bailiwick".
straw? really: STRAW?!?!? how, uh...resourceful.
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