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Tanya Gold: The sheer horror of Hyde Park’s Winter Wonderland

Every possible Christmas, experience, theme, idea, memory or possibility is squelched into a sorry corner of Hyde Park

issue 14 December 2013

Winter Wonderland is a Christmas-themed playground that lands on the sorry part of Hyde Park in November; the part that is munched underfoot, and is sad, and makes money. It sucks up children and spits them out fatter and closer to death, but happy — at least that is what their parents say.

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