It states ‘you are so beautiful’ in the same style as a 'no waiting' sign. Is it a message of unrequited love by a local sign maker or a tribute to the song popularised by Joe Cocker and written by Dennis Wilson, Bruce Fisher and Billy Preston, or simply a sign that says the silly season is upon us?

Last month ‘beware of the crocodile signs’ appeared in the city alongside the River Avon where a female jogger thought she had seen one of the reptiles swimming in the tidal waters. It proved a big story with a YouTube video, many column inches in the local newspaper The Post, and much more on social media. It turned out to have been made by two local sign-makers in Bedminster who made the signs as a joke. The signs are still up and have become something of a tourist attraction.

Now the latest quirky piece of street signage is again drawing comment. Nobody appears to know who put it up or why, but it could be setting a trend. Perhaps soon villages will have professional looking entrance signs saying for example that ‘Cheddar welcomes careful dieters’, or where the exclamation mark sign appears in a triangle the words below might read ‘beautiful sign-makers’.

What could famous road signs say as an alternative@ Your thoughts please to harry@linkpublishing.co.uk

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Below is a video of the late Joe Cocker singing the eponymous song: