
‘Junction’
…this could go one way or the other, it really could…

‘Junction’
…this could go one way or the other, it really could…

‘Weather Station’
…a fisherman’s buoys provide the weather forecast…

‘Balmoral’
… old wrought iron sign detail against blue sky, photo taken in the Auckland suburb named for the Scottish locality of a royal family residence…

A worn but perfunctory warning on the side of a concrete lobster tank on a Fife harbourside.
In my mind’s eye I picture a time when the sign was freshly painted, and when the lobsters were more abundant than they, sadly, are today.
A tank full of delicious, thrashing, spiny crustaceans…
And then a young Gordon or Alistair, or somesuch, ignoring the warning, reaching in , almost losing a finger or two in the tank, and screaming pitifully for his ma….
Do.
Not.
Touch.
The.
Lobsters!