Heavy Plant Crossing

HEAVY PLANT CROSSING reads a sign on the bus ride home. What? Is a heavy plant crossing the road? Might it sit on me?
Another piece of life that I am trying to understand here in the UK!

Culture shock for me is like being trapped in a children's picture book--where all the pictures have hundreds of things that are not the way they are supposed to be. A car with three tires, a tree that's upside down, a dog walking a person. There is still so much that I don't understand! Everyone else understands everything, but it is all so new to me. Of course the hilarious part is that I am the odd one as I stare at the 5 X7 sign that reads: People who allow their dogs to foul pavements are bad tempered, unhygienic and ill mannered--will be fined. Does it really say all that? Yes, and I wanted to take a picture of it to prove it.

These are the little daily issues, but some issues are bigger. As I try to adjust to this, and help my children adjust I can feel quite overwhelmed. Until I remember my savior who left a beautiful glorious home, where he enjoyed perfect togetherness to come down into our lonely world and take on a body that can get tired, hungry, sick and die. He came to a place where he would feel lonely and would one day be rejected and die for the purpose of one day bringing me back to his home. I find strength knowing that the one who called me here, will give me strength. My home country wasn't perfect, this country isn't either--but we are being strengthened for this task!