Tuesday, July 06, 2010
We were staying over the weekend at a hotel in the Lake District where they made something of a feature of feeding the wildlife at night for the guests' entertainment.
I liked the hotel, and our tower room was very beautiful...
but there was something a bit wrong with beautiful wild animals being paraded for photo opportunities.
And so when on our second night the receptionist/manageress greeted us at dusk wearing enormous Daffy Duck slippers and urged us to join the others by the picture window in the lounge, watching the foxes and the badgers and listening to Dido, we demurred.
But went up to our beautiful fire escape overlooking the woods and the garden and enjoyed the sight of them just the same...
I liked the hotel, and our tower room was very beautiful...
but there was something a bit wrong with beautiful wild animals being paraded for photo opportunities.
And so when on our second night the receptionist/manageress greeted us at dusk wearing enormous Daffy Duck slippers and urged us to join the others by the picture window in the lounge, watching the foxes and the badgers and listening to Dido, we demurred.
But went up to our beautiful fire escape overlooking the woods and the garden and enjoyed the sight of them just the same...
Labels: nature as spectacle
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