So Where's Wordsworth?

[naomi24]

A little chuckle for a Sunday morning. 

 

A tourist visiting the home of William Wordsworth left this review:

 

'Despite all the publicity about it being the home of William Wordsworth, he wasn't in and when I asked when he would be home all I got was blank stares'.

 

He was subsequently informed that the poet died in 1850.

 

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/24701921/tourist-review-william-wordsworth-home-lake-district/

 

Wandering lonely as a cloud - or just lost in a fog?   :o)

[Tilly2]

He's probably wandered off to meet the Brontes.

[Ken4155]

Surely he left a note pinned to his door;

 

"If you knocked and i haven't replied,

It's probably because i went and died.

Your inconvenience is my regret

I'm sorry that we couldn't have met.

Perhaps that cam be rectified,

But only when you've gone and died."

 

[vulcan42]

It's amazing how some tourists know so little about the places they visit. I remember the American tourist who questioned why they had built Windsor castle under Heathrows flightpath.

[royfromaus]

Or is he taking the pish?

[ParsleyDumpling]

Have to admit Grasmere is one of my most favourite places. Wordsworth is permanently at home there, in the churchyard 😊.

[elliemay1]

That's brilliant, Ken!

[bookbinder]

I agree with royfromaus. The tourist was probably trying to be amusing.

[Canary42]

Similar to the occasion when one of the Jane Austen films was being introduced in the USA, they asked if she could go over there and do a promotional tour 😃  😃  😃  😃  😃  

[Ellipsis]

I was at Wordsworth's house a few weeks ago ... a nice little spot.

Although he had tragedy with his children, I thought he was lucky to have money and recognition in his own lifetime - compared to, for example, van Gogh ...

[Peter Pedant]

The Austen film wiv Laurence Olivier, my mother went mad as the youngest girls were riding postillion

( riding on the rear mudguard of the coach, which 50 y later I agree was a bit "off".)

Louis B Meyer ( and I agree his hangers-on and nodders made up outrageous stories) - said about a Shakespeare play - "this  man is good - why havent you signed  him?". Meyer's taste wasnt visible in other films

[Peter Pedant]

But in another shot, the terriers were gambolling between the horses' hooves. The terriers would jump UNDER a horse's stomach and miss the hooves of the horse in motion - to show they cd do it.