I took my husband to England for the first time a few years ago and we took a day trip with my friend, Carole, up to Beatrix Potter’s land. There’s a lovely gift shop in what was her husband’s office now and you can walk the gardens and then there’s a wonderful hike up to Tarn Hows where she used to go and watch the wildlife. Anyway, while we were wandering around the gift shop, looking at all the Potter inspired gifty items, and my husband was not trying very hard to hide his boredom, I said to him, “I’m going to get this card for Olivia (our friend’s child in the States), but I really want to get her this figurine of Peter Rabbit too. What do you think?” and he looked at me and said, “Why? She’s not even going to know who Peter Rabbit is.” !!! Apparently, if his mother read to him when he was little (probably), his memory did not reach back that far and he had NO IDEA why this gift shop even existed! He was just there for the hike (which I highly recommend). Here are some pictures he took when we finally released him from the torture of the gift shop and went for our walk.
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