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8:41am on Monday, 26th October, 2026:
Weird
I came across this sign in Burford when we were in the Cotswolds:

On the one hand, you probably can be proud of a district that isn't afraid to refer to gabion baskets, implying as it does that the local population is so well-educated that most residents know what these are.
On the other hand, you might want to temper this when delivered by a sign with random capitalisation and no punctuation, ending in a noun-phrase slogan as if it were a sentence and terminating unnecessarily with a preposition.
The gabion baskets lined a stream, by the way, and you pretty well had to stand on top of them before you could actually see them.
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