Diary Friday 16th November 2018 How Not To Advertise Your Bicycle Shop

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I went for a long walk round the seaside town of Morecambe today. Much of my time was taken up looking at pub signs. I saw other delights too, some of which I’ll mention in coming posts. I thought I would start with this art installation promoting a bicycle shop. It is a human skeleton in cycling gear, riding one of the shop’s bikes. No doubt this is an amusing idea and a attention grabber, but surely suggesting that the bicycles are dangerous death traps that will kill the riders is not a great incentive to get on one of the undoubtedly fine bikes offered. I got home to find that despite multiple invoices from me, a writing payment I expected today hadn’t arrived. I complained by e-mail only to get an e-mail asking me to send in the invoices again so they can look into it. Ggggrrr Arthur Chappell