Unpacking a picture

[shewhomust]

We finally found a parking spot in Bamburgh some way up the hill, outside Hill-crest House; and this is their sign. This is not the post about Grace Darling I spoke of earlier; nor is it a criticism of Hill-Crest House Bed and Breakfast, which looked fine. It's just a pause for bogglement about the inconsistency with which people create their images. (There are larger images if required; click the picture and follow through).

So you decide to open a bed and breakfast establishment in a charming town on the north-east coat, dominated by a dramatic castle. After some thought (I assume), you decide that the main attraction of your house is that it's at the top of a hill, so you call it "Hill Crest." Now you want a picture for your sign: do you show the hill? Or the view from the top of the hill? No, you decide to illustrate the fact that you offer accommodation at the seaside with a picture of the sea - not as a holiday destination but as the scene of a shipwreck, and the heroic rescue associated with it.

And then you look at what message your sign is giving out, and decide that there's something missing. So you add a puffin. Well, of course you do. There are few things which aren't improved by the addition of a puffin.

/snark.