Jumping Through Hoops » Funny http://blog.jameshiggs.com James Higgs's Blog Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:16:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 What’s in a name? http://blog.jameshiggs.com/2008/02/14/whats-in-a-name/ http://blog.jameshiggs.com/2008/02/14/whats-in-a-name/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:48:35 +0000 higgis http://blog.jameshiggs.com/2008/02/14/whats-in-a-name/ I just got back from a very pleasant excursion to South London; an oxymoron, I know. On my way I catalogued some quaint and some not so quaint shop signs.

The first one is lovely – it’s just down the Walworth Road from me: Mixed Blessings Bakery. Later on there was another nicely named bakery in Camberwell, this time on a more classical theme: Socrates Bakery.

Then there was Albertine’s, a pub. Not somewhere you’d have expected to bump into Proust though.

Next, and probably my favourite, was Innovations – Unravelling Potentials. You can see what they mean, but unravelling perhaps wasn’t the best word choice.

Finally, and the comedy kind of writes itself here, was Rimworld. Nice.

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Will be responsible for tea

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