People Working Ahead ...

For this week's Sunday Challenge, for which the topic was manly pursuits.

A bit of a tricky one in some ways because I don't think that nowadays there are many activities which you could say are for men only. Even hobbies that might once have been seen as for being solely or at least predominantly for men, such as DIY, are now quite popular with women too.

The times are no longer as Bob Dylan once sang a-changing ... instead they have changed and changed significantly.

Take this temporary road sign I found discarded on the ground behind Northallerton's leisure centre. When I was growing up it was understood that this meant Men at Work. Yet nowadays although the sign looks exactly the same as it always has, and certainly still looks to me like it depicts a man digging, it is now described as indicating road works ahead.

I guess it won't be long before the only true manly pursuit left for us guys will be growing a beard!

Also for Sight and Sound. I nearly went for the Dylan track referenced, but in the end I couldn't resist the double pun connection offered by Men at Work with "No Sign of Yesterday":

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