{"id":794,"date":"2013-05-30T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=794"},"modified":"2013-05-30T11:12:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T11:12:03","slug":"crossing-to-the-bus-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=794","title":{"rendered":"Crossing to the bus stop"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Drivng back from Ellon the other day I spotted what I thought would be a great picture:\u00a0 there was a lovely patch of late daffodils growing round the Hatton village sign on the main road.\u00a0 But the best laid schemes….Lily the dog and I set off to walk along the verge and take the picture when the light was in the right direction.\u00a0 But when we got there I noticed that someone had fixed a big pole onto the sign with a video camera on the top.\u00a0\u00a0 It really spoiled the picture!\u00a0 I will have to wait for next year to get the photograph I wanted.<\/p>\n

Now on Monday I read in the P&J that “Road bosses are considering traffic-calming measures on a north-east trunk road over pedestrian safety fears.”\u00a0 There was a picture of the Hatton turn-off and the bus shelter.\u00a0 Bear Scotland installed the cameras to monitor the number of people crossing the road there and a decision is awaited about what should be done\u00a0 to improve pedestrian safety.<\/p>\n

The traffic does hurtle along the road and you do have to take extra care when crossing.\u00a0 I certainly became aware of the speed and the volume of the traffic as Lily and I walked along the verge.\u00a0 She was not happy at all, and we could feel the rush of the wind as the big lorries passed.<\/p>\n

So I have recycled my Hatton sign daffodil photograph as a road safety picture and I had a go at taking a better picture of the bus shelter area than appeared in the P&J, trying to get the impression of the speed of the lorry as it hurtled past in a blur.\u00a0 And just my luck, a Number 60 bus on its way to Aberden stopped just at the right moment for me.<\/p>\n

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Drivng back from Ellon the other day I spotted what I thought would be a great picture:\u00a0 there was a lovely patch of late daffodils growing round the Hatton village sign on the main road.\u00a0 But the best laid schemes….Lily the dog and I set off to walk along the verge and take the picture…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crudencountry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}