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naomi24 | 09:06 Sun 12th Nov 2023 | ChatterBank
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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)

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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 regretI'm sorry that we couldn't have met.Perhaps that cam be rectified,But only when you've gone and died." 
09:22 Sun 12th Nov 2023

He's probably wandered off to meet the Brontes.

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."

 

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.

Or is he taking the pish?

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

That's brilliant, Ken!

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

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 😃  😃  😃  😃  😃  

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 ...

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

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.

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