Daffodils seem to be the PR man's best friend just now. First of all we had South Lakeland parks trying to get a few column inches with their daft plastic daffodil stunt (very weak that one). Now we have GoLakes (as the Cumbria Tourist Board is now know) releasing a rap based on the famous poem - you can check it out at http://www.golakes.co.uk/wordsworthrap/
It's ironic that Wordsworth was very anti mass tourism according to The Guardian "he sent the prime minister in 1844 a poem condemning the proposed railway to Windermere which now brings thousands of young people to the Lakes. A nimby tract which would also lend itself to rap delivery, it starts: "Is there no nook of English ground secure/ From rash assault..."
Windermere Lodge is a Luxury Self-catering Pine Lodge for rent in the Heart of England's Lake District. To find out how to rent our lodge please visit www.windermerelodge.co.uk. In this blog I will record some of the interesting things that we see in the Lake District, and particularly around Limefitt Park in Troutbeck.
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