It is normal practice for someone from New Forest District Council to mark areas of the tarmac for repair with white corner lines. These sometimes stay so long that they can be erased by traffic.
A BBC News item of 17th May concerning Lymington and its environment begins with “Potholes in neighbouring towns have been daubed with penis images in an apparent attempt to speed up repairs.
Hampshire County Council said the graffiti in Lymington and Milford-on-Sea would be removed when engineers assessed the holes.” (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-65623391#)
Varying opinions are viewed in the article.
Today I photographed one in Ramley Road.
This was at the start of a forest drive after a successful hygienist clean of my elderly gnashers.
Dappled lanes enlivened our chosen route;
sunlight splashed the banked verges of South Sway Lane, while
the dribble of the drying stream beneath the ford on Holmsley Passage scarcely rippled what surface remained, and
Healthy grasses elegantly bent their heads beside it.
Cattle cropped the verges of Holmsley Road.
Shadows stretched across Bisterne Close, where the yellow flag irises and white water buttercups were now rooted in a dried up pool on the bed of which I stood to produce the third photograph in this gallery.
While we were out a veritable proliferation of foals had sprouted on Wotton Common. I wandered among them at will but only photographed a sample.
This evening we all dined on Jackie’s classic cottage pie topped with potato slices baked with the mince; piquant cauliflower cheese; firm Brussels sprouts, and tasty gravy; followed by Flo’s moist and well textured mango cake and custard, with which the Culinary Queen drank more of the Asahi, and I drank more of the Malbec.