Fake 172

Today to Wisley, where while I was waiting for BH to perambulate the shop by the entrance, I admired the exposed timbers under the café roof, with this café being one of the many eateries provided.

I was struck by how smooth and even they looked and thought back to Fake 169 of reference 2, as updated by reference 3. But then I thought that the RHS was very into tasteful and organic and would never stoop so low as to fake the timbers under their café roof.

However, closer inspection revealed that they had indeed, with glimpses of white plastic visible at the margins. Tasteful and organic only takes you so far when you are refurbishing a serious visitor attraction, a serious rival to the Chessington World of Adventure. I put it all down to Attabore on the box.

PS 1: a rare glitch in the Bogger software in the course of this post. It must have got in a muddle with the data it uses to keep track of my activity. Hopefully no damage has been done.

PS 2: the next morning: it occurs to me now that there is more to this than aesthetics. Softwood rafters made from managed forests up north are a lot more ecological than plastic replicas made from fossil oil sucked up from somewhere in the Middle East. Should the RHS be setting a better example? Should they have information panels explaining why plastic is actually, if counter-intuitively, more ecological?

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/01/fake-171.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2023/12/fake169.html. Post title corrected.

Reference 3: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/01/trolley-613.html.

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