Greetings from Ambleside Postcard

Lakeland was the home of English poet William Wordsworth, who famously declared that "he wandered lonely as a cloud", not in Ambleside in August he didn't. At peak periods the place is overrun with tourists. Why is it that every tourist destination is taken over by people intent on selling you.. ornaments, bath salts, candles, and (as Ambleside is in the mountains) cuckoo clocks? These businesses are mostly run by people from Surrey with beards (not a pretty sight on the ladies) seeking to get back to nature and escape the rat race. If the cuckoo clocks aren't enough to drive Williams ghost round the bend, the low flying military jets intent on straffing his beloved daffodils certainly would. "Fluttering in the breeze".. more like.. "blown away by the afterburners"