amusing signs
The collection of signs for the 'Cornwall at War' museum makes me smile every time I pass it.
It's on the way to a walk I take the dog for, and every time I pass I say to myself "I'm going to stop and take a picture on the way home"—and then don't.
And the next time I pass it, I remember I told myself I was going to take a picture last time, but this time I'll definitely remember. And then I don't.
Today I stopped and took a picture of them before I passed it.
It amuses me because, well, it's very good signage. It tells you everything you want to know about visiting a war museum.
Where it is (over there →), how to get in (through the red gates), and most importantly, whether or not there is cheese in the gift shop (there IS!)
I've never actually visited the museum itself, nor the possibly cheesy in more ways than one gift shop afterwards. There is a link though, so the cheese element isn't perhaps as random as it first looks.
Next door to the museums buildings (plural because there is also a separate one dedicated to the RAF anti-submarine squadron who operated from the airfield here) is the creamery factory that makes the Davidstow and Cathedral City cheddar-type cheeses, seen in the big UK supermarkets. In fact the factory dwarfs them, and is itself a landmark on the local landscape which can be seen from miles around, this being such a high altitude point.
Mind you, a lot of the time you can't see it from miles around. As it's also close to the Atlantic north coast, the whole airfield plateau is subject to being shrouded in thick, twenty-meter visibility sea fog.
I don't know if the cheeses in the shop are the workaday mass market ones from the creamery next door, or better ones from local artisan manufacturers, of which Cornwall has many. And I'm not paying whatever the entrance fee is to see the old war machinery just to find out. Even though the cheese is always tempting.
There is more info about the airfield on Wikipedia here, including the surprising revelation of early Formula One races being held there.
Written by a real person who completely ignores red wavy underlining and uses perfectly legitimate brand new words that just haven't made it to a dictionary yet.
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