Arabic writing at the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey

Arabic writing at the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey in January 2014

A big inscribed granite statue at Ritsurin Gardens, at Takamatsu, Japan

A big inscribed granite statue at Ritsurin Gardens, at Takamatsu, Japan, in March 2015

Old handwritten sign outside a shop in Kurashiki, Japan

Old handwritten sign outside a shop in Kurashiki, Japan in March 2015

Arabic relgious writing

Arabic religious writing on a car window in Kuching, Sarawak (Borneo) Malaysia in January 2012

Burmese writing

Burmese writing on a wall in Ya Min Gyi Street in Yangon, Burma in August 2010. No idea what it says but I find the writing fascinating and very very inscrutable.

Boy scouts working hard

Boy scouts writing at Namtok Chet Sao Noi National Park, Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand in February 2012

Dutch tattoo

Two women at Railay Beach, Ao Nang, Krabi District, Thailand in February 2012. On the left she has a big tattoo in Dutch about her sister and the words fear on her elbow and the one on the right, is that a Bunnings bikini? lol

Cake menu

A menu at a cafe at Coogee Beach, Sydney in July 2009. Cake

Hotel writing

The wall of an hotel in Jalan carpenter street in Kuching, Malaysia in January 2012. Great idea to write comments by the front door

Saibai omelette

A omelette for breakfast at the Saibai hotel in Korat in June 2011. Clever use of tomato sauce (ketchup)!

Washing lines

Art installation at the entrance to Customs House, at Circular Quay, Sydney in October 2011. Messages on a washing line. I am happy, love my family, Saturday is not the same without you.

Restaurant writing

The restaurant at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Taipei, Taiwan in August 2010. I like the writing on the window

Floriade writing

A woman at the Floriade Flower Show in Canberra in October 2011

Chinese calligraphy

Chinese calligraphy materials at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, in August 2011

Sand writing

Couple writing in the sand at Tanah Lot Temple, Bali, Indonesia in June 2011

Shop window poem

Messages in a shop window in Civic, Canberra in August 2009. One is in Arabic

Writing wrong

Writing on the wall of a house at the abandoned Dhamiyaka Outstation near Gapuwiyak in the Northern Territory photographed in January 2009. Very poor spelling.

Graffiti art?

Unusual graffiti art taken in Darwin in September 2008