Estate agents' photographs

Or in this case, a holiday cottage agent's photograph. We had a very good holiday in this one, but we had been confused by the picture, thinking that one got the brown door and the two pairs of windows on either side of it, whereas what one actually got was the brown door and the one pair of windows to the left of it - with the pair of windows to the right going with the white building on the right.

One could have worked it all out by more careful inspection of the pictures supplied but we did not manage that. Just hit the buy button.

The gardens were quite entertaining too. So we have a terrace of four cottages plus one stuck on the end, of which you see the last two on the right in this picture. The garden of cottage 1 pushes out to the right, into what might have been thought of as the space of cottage 2. The garden of cottage 2 pushes over a bit more and the garden of cottage 3 occupies what might have been thought to be the proper place for the garden of cottage 4, the one we were in. So our garden occupies the back of the remainder of the terrace, that is to say behind the window with eight panes, and cottage 5 gets what was left. We got to our garden by a short path from our back door, cutting across the back of the first half of cottage 5.

We thought that maybe, when the village was a village rather than a retirement home for professionals from King's Lynn and IT consultants, the garden arrangements for these cottages were all a bit informal, with the result that a pushy owner of cottage 1 was able to push into the space of the old lady who didn't care in cottage 2, thus starting the cascade.