I walk past this sign every time I take my daughter to school. It irritates me every time. Am I allowed to walk dogs, but only if I'm not doing it in the interests of health and hygiene? Or does it mean that they consider dog walking unhygienic? The ambiguity is annoying: this is in a school, dammit, what kind of lesson does this provide the children?
Yours, pedant-of-Coton
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