Hi,
I guess the title puzzles you… no wonder, it is a puzzle to me too. Anyhow, the story is the following:
In old days, or maybe even now, smaller villages and towns were giving away titles to people who kept a tidy household and a neat garden. “Tiszta Udvar, Rendes Ház” literally means Clean Garden, Tidy Hose. This title usually was won if there were nice flowers in the front yard, no rusted out old Lada, Trabant, or any other ex-communist made cars, etc. I remember as a child, I often visited to villages with my parents, and we were counting these titles with my sister. If I sat on the left of the car, I would count them on the left side, and she would count the ones on the right. To be honest, I don’t pay much attention to these signs, and I have a feeling that this is long gone with the old system, but I may be wrong.
The funny thing about the picture my father just sent to me, is that he found one of these signs in a village around the Lake Balaton, and from the state of the sign I am guessing it doesn’t really belong there anymore, but I will let you decide, have a look at the picture,
Cheers
