The location here is St. Martin's, Guernsey where C. Northcote Parkinson lived toward the end of his life.

Parkinson's law of triviality, also known as bikeshedding or the bicycle-shed example, is C. Northcote Parkinson's 1957 argument that organizations give disproportionate weight to trivial issues. Parkinson demonstrated this by contrasting the triviality of the cost of building a bike shed in contrast to an atomic reactor. The law has been applied to software development and other activities, and is known as the "color of the bike shed" effect.^[2]

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's law of triviality