'Tis the Season to be Jolly?

Winter Wonderlands are currently big business in the UK. Some can be a pleasant experience for children and their doting parents. There are, however, annual horror stories of 'rip-off' events by money grubbers (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/dec/13/even-the-reindeer-were-unhappy-life-inside-britains-worst-winter-wonderlands). The worst Winter Wonderlands have polystyrene 'snow' (more plastic pollution?), cheap fibre-board 'grottos', multiple 'santas' simultaneously handing out cheap presents on a 'conveyer belt' system and underpaid 'elves' (generally recent graduates, without a current job) who attract parental fury (welcome to the world of work!). What really damns trash Winter Wonderlands, however, is a report that, at one such location, 'even the reindeer were depressed'.