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Jane
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Re: Votive offerings
Sep 01, 2009, 11:43
nigelswift wrote:

After all, it's a selfish self-promoting act masquerading as respect.
It says "look at me, I was here and really revere this place."

(Well leave it unblemished then yer git, like the rest of us!)


I'm very strongly with you on this one, Mr Swift. We were at Long Meg in June. The non-biodegradable tat which had been lovingly suspended from a nearby tree beggared belief: a child's toy lorry, a heartshaped plastic crystal, a length of bailer twine, an old sock, a plastic spoon... What in the name of the Baby Jesus H Christ would move someone to tie a plastic spoon to a hawthorn tree?

The other thing that gets me is people leaving flowers at roadside 'shrines'. They always leave them wrapped in cellophane which looks a bloody disgrace. Grrr!!!!!!!
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