So Sir Peter Viggers claimed £1,600 on expenses for a fancy floating duck shelter back in 2006: so what.
"I see resorts spending a lot of money on fancy lodges when a shelter would be enough.
The Republican Guards, in their pomposity, were also a double entendre: before they marched off in disgust, they parodied the gravity of precious art reverently sheltered in fancy galleries, and at the same time looked fake, even though they were real.
But there are so many museums here, you are bound to find something that tickles your cultural fancy that is also sheltered from the heaving masses.
They serve as the embodiments of our inner life, Bachelard wrote, containers for fancies: "the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace".
The tray's bottom layer was all business: tiny, adorable sandwiches — cucumber and cream cheese, salmon and egg — stacked together tightly, as if a fancy mouse had packed an emergency shelter.
Three hundred miles south-west, in a far-flung corner of Cornwall, the zig-zagging roof of Zaha Hadid's experimental marquee is providing an unusual shelter for an under-12s' fancy dress ball.
Wooden seafood shacks share the terrain with the state's top restaurants, and the historic harbor shelters weathered fishing vessels alongside fancy private boats.
The fancy residential hotel around the corner became a homeless shelter.
The shelter doesn't have to be anything fancy, just enough to keep most of the rain off and to keep you warm and secure.
