not to be taken literally

I mentioned to Nicky on the way into town this afternoon how there should be some little brass symbols hammered into the pavement similar to the "here is a nice spot to take a picture" camera-icons dotted around the place but with a question mark instead of a camera signifying "here is a suitably non-busy spot of pavement where you and your twenty busmates (all wearing the same bags, anoraks and expressions) can safely congregate in an huge huddle to debate for fifteen minutes where you are and whither you should next go". It would certainly make crossing any of the junctions of the high street much less taxing without a clump of people on each corner from pavement to kerb dithering about the best way to get to the castle without having to deal with the terrible gradients on the most obvious route.

Hopefully these two left the roundabout without looking back and seeing another sign telling them to look in the direction of any of the other three cardinal compass points.

They're lucky they saw the one pointing north where at least they get the domes of the Botanics and Tanfield to film at the bottom of the admittedly nice and San Francisconianatesqueishlysloping Dundas Street. There were some people excitedly taking pictures of the long banners on New College's towers in the other direction a bit later.

BTW: Does anyone who has lived in Edinburgh for a while know if the brain-shaped fountains in Hunter Square have ever functioned? I'm not sure if I've ever seen them working in twelve years. This summer is the first time I've definitely noticed the fountains at the west end of the gardens in action and I only noticed that because the wind was blowing some spray onto my camera a couple of weeks back.

Monday. POO. Monday with boss absent. BETTER.