what fun
this is my last scottish entry – nearly a month after we left the place !
these comedy items were on sale on a service station near the Scottish border. it wasn’t clear to me whether they were meant for:
* english people leaving scotland wishing to remember the scots
* english people on the way to scotland wishing to blend in with the scots
* scottish people heading to england wishing to reinforce national stereotypes
* genuine irony-free scottish accessories
tall bollards
esther spotted these tall bollards on the way back from our scottish holiday. she even volunteered to take a photo so i let her (it was safer than me taking the photo as i was driving).
unfortunately she was too short to see over the dashboard, but you can just see the top of one of them way over to the right
knutsford service station
i’ve written about british motorway service stations before, but in my opinion Knutsford Service Station is the worst one ever.
they had these reassuring signs on the toilet seat lids. toilets, chemical attack, life expectancy. it was all too much for me.
even less reassuring was the toilet cubicles wouldn’t lock because each of them had the lock on the wrong side – ie you could lock them from the outside, but not if you were in them ! How COMPLETELY useless is that (except maybe in a prison).
here is the winner of Mr Misnomer 2004:
and here is the exquisite exterior:
a local dog sign
here is a dog sign which i found this evening in a local pub. it’s only a few minutes walk from my house yet i’d never seen it before. i find that very intriguing. how many other such signs are there around me that i haven’t archived.
up against a brick wall
they’ve replaced a wall with a brickwall, rebricked it and now want you to divert yourself by climbing up it. don’t these road menders have any sense of gravity ?
emergency dangerous structure response vehicle
in my view, if there’s an emergency, the last thing you need is a dangerous structure brought along to add to your worries. yet this is exactly what this lorry claims to do.
oh dear
are these things bollards ? i dunno for sure. i’d say they are. bollards holding barriers.
anyway, whatever they are, they’ve all fallen in to the road.
jilted
here’s a very sad thing. it’s a red rose that’s been abandoned and walked all over in the rain outside paddington station. there’s definately a story behind this.
be lucky
a do it yourself fire exit sign
