A wee touch of the Victor Sylvestors

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There was a dance band leader back in the days when all the music was black and white called Victor Sylvestor. A wee touch of the Victor Sylvestors means that its been snowing quite hard for a fair wee while. This is because in the days of Victor sylvestor dance bands and all the young folk going to the dancing on the weekend, it was a thing to learn how to quick step etc. by buying a pattern of footsteps. 

                                                                      

This was in a long sheet of white paper that you unfolded on the carpet, it had black and white footmarks on it and you simply followed the numbers. It was like a sophisticated twister for below the knees. I believe these instructions sometimes came with the appropriate gramophone recording where a voice would tell you the speed to move at, and the most famous of Victor Sylvestors was slow, slow, quick, quick, slow which then becomes snow, snow, thick, thick, snow.

                                            

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I promise you there is a link coming, but some years ago Doncaster City council decided to name their grit spreaders to help keep our road clear in the rare event of the one inch of snow that grinds Scotland to a standstill. The Scottish government decided to take this idea and run with it, and they’ve done a very good job of bringing something as banal as a snow gritter into the public affection. They all now have names which the public can nominate – there are rules and you can follow your favourite gritter on an interactive map as it goes about its business which normally means deployed to the A77.

So here are a few:

Gritty gritty bang bang

Sir Salter Scott

Grittalica

Gritty McVittie

Spready Mercury

                                            

Sir Andy Flurry

Rainbow

Jack

Luke Snow walker

Ready spready go

Fred

The Snow Destroyer

Snowball

Ice Queen

Grit Expectations

Gangsta Granny Gritter

                                              

Sir Grits-A-Lot

Sprinkles

Plougher O'Scotland

Gritty Gonzalez

Sandy The Solway Salter

Snowkemon Go

Slippy McGritty

For Your Ice Only

Grits-N-Pieces

Gritteny Spears

I want to break freeze

Yes Sir, Ice can Boogey

Penelopy Grittstop

Gritter Thunberg

Mr Plow

Darth Spreader

Ploughlo Gratteeni

William Wallice

Fridge of Weir

Thawin-batty

Gerry Raffersleigh

Lew Ice Capaldi

Grittle Mix

                                             

Scotland has 208 gritters and the rules for naming them are – it can’t be too long, and it can’t be anything copyrighted by Disney as Disney seems to have no sense of humour.

I kind of like Snow Business like Snow business, but I’ll leave the last word to Billy Connolly who wanted to know how the man who drives the snow plough gets to his work in the morning.

Caro