Cobbled

In the absence of any other blip today, I thought that I would introduce fellow blippers to Glasgow humour and bawdiness.

This sign was in a window of a close in Glasgow and makes me laugh every time I see it.
A translation for other cultures is as follows:- Please don't urinate in the passage way of the close, you dirty people.


On a different tack and of course with a need for a rant, I would like to state that the urban roads in Edinburgh at the moment are a complete disgrace.
I say this having spent the last 2 or 3 mornings negotiating on two wheels the potholes, patchings , loose stones and drain covers which grace roads more likely to be found in third world countries.

The potholes are at least visible in daylight and can be avoided if there is a light flow of traffic beside you, but the patchings look as though some lorry has emptied a load of tarmac randomly on to a large area surrounding the hole, smoothed the top, but not bothered to check if the edges are on the same level as the rest of the roadway.

Big car wheels may not register the difference in levels, but bike wheels do, and cycling on them is like doing 'off road' biking on a bad mountain track but with added hazards like sunken drains and eroded tarmac not yet formed in to actual holes.

I fear that Clarence of pothole fame has had a nervous breakdown and is out of the equation.

I won't even start about badly *cobbled roads, the art of proper laying of these having long since died out. These roads can usually be avoided and if not then you have the choice of rattling your bike into total disintegration or getting off and pushing.

There now, I do feel better.

* His Lordship has read this and informs me that the roads I describe are not cobbled but are paved with cassies or sets.
We have this argument all the time. He comes from Dundee and while this may be the terminology in that wild dark corner of Scotland, we in Edinburgh call them cobbles, even if they look the same as Dundee cassies. Am I right?