Road signs - the snow collection


Above, a Belisha beacon at Tesco in Aviemore. Below, a snow bank in Keith makes a convenient prop for a traffic control stop/go sign. (My goodness, I sound like National Geographic magazine captions.)


Below, school crossing sign in Cromdale, north of Aviemore. Through a dirty windscreen. At minus 14 C the washer water had frozen, despite copious amounts of anti-freeze. No, I wasn't the driver.


I never noticed before that our school crossing signs have the female child in charge. Stereotype of mothering instinct, or recognition of common sense?

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  1. Great serie ! Hope that now everything is back to normal ;)

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  2. You really do have as much snow as we do. We may get up to 32 degrees and might melt on Thursday, but I am not counting it. Nice shots.

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  3. It looks like real winter! I think the female child in charge is recognition of common sense.

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  4. I felt right at home. Snow is everywhere and lots of it and more to come. School crossing sign was fun and to me it was just a girl leading the little brother across the street, nothing more.

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  5. Common sense of course. :-)
    We who had over 9feet of snow last year have had the warmest January on record. It's been nice.
    But, somehow I miss the snow also.
    I imagine the children of Scotland are having a great time.

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  6. There's lots of snow piled up in your photographs. I looked up what is a Belisha beacon on the Internet. I had never heard the term. I like reading your blog posts; I tend to learn something new.

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  7. Oh my, that is a lot of snow, and with more gray clouds in the sky (in the last photo). I hope they were clearing and not threatening more of the powdery stuff.

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  8. Def common sense! lol......thank you for the comment on my wedding post. I cant find your email to have you send me the pics from Christmas, so here is mine: hgr8scot@myway.com. And I LOVE the tartan dress (so does Daven), but wow!! the price! lol...so we are improvising!

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  9. Love the pale baby blue sky with all that wonderful snow!! It does make for great pictures!

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  10. It looks very cold there!

    Regarding your last sentence, which made me chuckle, I vote for common sense!

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  11. My, my! So much snow! Very lucky... or unlucky, depending on how you look at it :) Pretty pictures though.

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  12. Wow you really have had a huge amount of snow up there.

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  13. Recognition of common sense....no doubt!

    Are you enjoying the snow?

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  14. (I've come over from Sarah's blog, two red boots!)

    Lovely photos :) We are hoping to visit the Highlands this summer and do some dolphin-spotting.

    The woman who designed the traffic signs was on Top Gear recently - the old sign used to be a bigger boy and a smaller girl, but she changed them round because she thought it seemed friendlier (iirc), and based the girl on herself as a child :)

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