Fake 20

A Christmas tree, just outside the stable yard at Polesden Lacey, with additional shopping & catering facilities visible in a blue shed behind. Car park off picture to the left.

Fake, because from the front it could easily be mistaken for a live tree, growing in the spacious and otherwise well-treed grounds. And indeed, I did overhear one family being taken in. I did not like to disillusion them.

But go around the back and all become clear, including the impressive stakes tying the thing to the ground. Just like proper fairground people use to hold up their tents and such like.

I shall be taking advice on whether it is fair to score this fake, given that there was probably no intention to mislead. No malice aforethought, as they used to say in another connection.

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