Look behind you!

Street signs need to be big and colourful to make you notice them. These ones are near where I live, and I see them every day when I’m walking home from the supermarket. But just like every story, street signs have two sides, too.

One day, I looked behind me at the back of the small blue sign that says Begins, and this is what I saw.

At first, I thought it was an advertisement for Burger King, but I didn’t know what SQWEK meant. It’s a word, and you can say it easily, but you won’t find it in the dictionary.

I was sure I had seen it somewhere before, but I couldn’t remember where. Then it came to me, so I went there and took this photo.

It’s on a roller door in Cross Street behind K Road. I like it, and I think it looks pretty cool, but maybe the building owners have a different opinion.

I was happy that I’d remembered where I’d seen it, but I still didn’t know what it meant, so I jumped online and asked Mrs Google for help. The first thing that I found was this image about Palestine, but you’ll notice that it’s spelt slightly differently.

If anyone has any info, I’d be glad to hear.

PS: A few hours after I posted this, I went for a walk through my local park before dinner. I usually walk here every day. I do a loop, walking from the bottom to the top and then back down again. I’ve walked here for years and years, so I think I know it pretty well.

At the bottom of the park, there are public tennis courts where anyone can play. You just turn up, and if a court is free, you‘re good to go. Both courts are usually busy, especially during summer when the weather if nice, but in the picture below, the courts were unoccupied.

Yesterday, when I was nearly home, I looked at the fence at the back of the tennis courts and saw the picture below. This banner is not new, but I never noticed it before, so maybe I don’t know the park as well as I thought! It’s our old friend SQWEK.

That was yesterday, but today I was walking past a building site in the city and I saw this. The picture above is old, but the one below is new because if you look closely, you’ll see 2025 at the foot of the leg of the letter K. This guy SQWEK gets around!