Flying the Flag for San Jose

Council workmen surprised us this week when they moved into the street under the cover of darkness to decorate every lamp-post with twin black flags advertising a photo exhibition at our new cultural centre.

Looks a bit like Cap'n Jack and the Black Pearl's hove to in the centre of San Jose doesn't it? You don't need to be a marketing genius to notice that there aren't any opening times given on the flags (I went on the 17th and it was closed) and that a marketing campaign that nobody sees isn't very good. Why put all the flags out on a street where only 10 people live and which is a dead end in a goat farm?

The answer of course is that all the other lamp posts in the village are too low to have a flag attached so there is some logic to the decision.