Monday 4th July 2022.
We all get requests to sign petitions from time to time and I don't always respond, but this one is to protest about something outrageous. When I first read about this proposal to have a theme park in Langdale it seemed so absurd that I thought it was a joke. How anybody could be so crass as to think of such a thing is beyond my comprehension apart from the fact that the Lake District is already at visitor saturation point.
PLEASE READ AND HOPEFULLY SIGN.
Conrad R.
Lives of great men will remind us
We can make our lives sublime
And,departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Longfellow
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I saw a jolly hunter
With a jolly gun
Walking in the country
In the jolly sun.
In the jolly meadow
Sat a jolly hare.
Saw the jolly hunter.
Took jolly care.
Hunter jolly eager-
Sight of jolly prey.
Forgot gun pointing
Wrong jolly way.
Jolly hunter jolly head
Over heels gone.
Jolly old safety catch
Not jolly on.
Bang went the jolly gun.
Hunter jolly dead.
Jolly hare got clean away.
Jolly good, I said.
Charles Causey - (24 August 1917 – 4 November 2003) was a Cornish poet, schoolmaster and writer. His work is noted for its simplicity and directness and for its associations with folklore, especially when linked to his native Cornwall.
The Lake District Planning Board and Lake District National Park are a joke, they are already in bed with the developers who share the Brockholes Windermere site with a tree tops adventure 'attraction'.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to Friends of the Lake District?
This is outrageous Conrad and we will both sign. By the way, I don’t get notifications when you post, so my apologies for late comments.
ReplyDeleteAfoor - Apart from BC who put me onto this there has been no other reaction from my readers but I am grateful for yours.
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