Although Grasmere village and most of its infrastructure are
many centuries old, there are a few modern conveniences. Take this lovely car,
for instance. I wanted to, but it was closely guarded.
One learns a lot walking around tourist villages. For one
thing, where there are tourists, there must be toilets, and money is to be had
by providing them.
Out in the countryside, there are lots of trees, so toilets
aren’t actually necessary. But what I realized today is that you still have to
pay to use a tree. That explains the money tree I saw a few days ago. I’ll need
to buy a hammer at the next hardware store (“ironmonger”) I pass, so I can
hammer my coins into the trees whenever I use them. I drink a lot of coffee so
as the song says, “… I’ll hammer in the morning, I’ll hammer in the evening all
over this land…” And a beautiful land it is.
