I saw a host of golden daffodils - but nine days before Christmas!

Daffodils in the heart of the Lake District, Cumbria, are most definitely blooming early...in fact well over two months early.

But locals are definitely left scratching their heads wondering if this is an elaborate hoax...

It appears a literary fan has recreated a physical tribute to one of the most famous works of a certain Romantic Poet, but on the shores of the wrong Lake.

Most of us will be familiar with the immortal lines penned by the Lake District bard Wordsworth in his poem ‘I wandered Lonely as a Cloud' concerning a walk he and his sister Dorothy took in April 1802 around Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater:

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host of golden daffodils;

Certainly Daffodils in the heart of Wordsworth's Lake District are the norm in Spring. But you can imagine the consternation caused by a blooming marvellous discovery made at Cockshott Point, on the shores of Windermere, in the Lake District, this weekend.

It would appear that mild confusion reigns in the world of the Daffodil as eerily in line with the opening verse of Wordsworth's world famous poem a whole host of Lake District daffs have been discovered in the depths of Winter:

‘Beside the lake, beneath the trees

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.'

Strange as it may seem but with preparations well in hand for the festive season, snow lying high on the Cumbrian fells and gale force winds blowing a hoolie across the UK these unseasonably early Cumbrian daffs are most certainly blooming!

We are left begging the question is this an elaborate hoax by a Wordsworth aficionado or are these daffs the real deal...Certainly locals are left wondering who would go to the extent of faking the last two lines of verse one Wordsworth's famous poem so accurately albeit on the shores of Windermere??

This is where you come in can you shed any light on the originator of this elaborate recreation...do you know the canny person who knows Wordsworth's words so well?

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