I was driving along the other day and I spotted this on the road, which has recently been relined (please note, I was stationary when I took the photo, and it’s not lousy road positioning, I was holding the camera out of the car window):
Now, it is true to say that there are lots of owls around (I saw a barn owl fly the length of the garden around 10am one day last week), but, painting it as a warning on the road?
I think my brain might have become dyslexic in its old age. I guess that’s what a professional lifetime which included advising on and working with those with such challenges does for you.
Is it just me?
Debster
There’s always shopfitters…
mr BW
I see moles. But then perhaps that’s because I am always looking out for them popping up
Joho
In Winnie the Pooh the owl is called Wol.
In Twin Peaks: “The owls are not what they seem…”
Blue Witch
Joho – you’ve solved the mystery! I always call ‘owls’ ‘wols’ and I can read upside down just as easily as I can read right-way up (in a sort of bilingual way). So, my brain simply read all the letters on the RHS in sequence.
I still think it’s daft to put ‘SLOW’ on the road in both directions like this as it is very distracting.