Dear Sir,

For the past two years or more, it seems that I have been attending funeral services every fortnight all over Bermuda in the scores of houses of worship dotted over our 21-square-mile cluster of islands.

The last funeral service attended was at the church in the round — the Roman Catholic Church of St Patrick’s on South Road in Smith’s Parish.

Now, in order to access St Patrick’s Church, one has to travel north on to St Patrick’s Road.

Mr Editor, is St Patrick’s Road a public road or a private road?

Please see the red-and-white sign in the photograph, several of which are placed strategically along the grass verge.

Mr Editor, permit me, at this point, to confess and declare that in order for me to take the photo accompanying this letter, I had to “stand” on St Patrick’s Road.

I understand the “no parking”, but what is meant by “or standing on this road at any time”?.

Are the words “no standing” as stated used interchangeably to emphasise “no parking”?

Is “no standing” in reference to vehicles? To animals? Or to people?

As busy as Church Street is in the City of Hamilton, I have never seen such a sign/notice outside a church there or near any other church or place of worship in Bermuda stating “No parking or standing on this road at any time”.

Mr Editor, are the words “or standing” on this sign a reflection of a relic of the “No wandering abroad” from the days of yesteryear?

LEIGHTON ROCHESTER

Hamilton Parish