Frog, gone

Poor dead frog, lying belly-up in the pond. Last Spring the pond was teeming with frogs and full of frog spawn.

Shortly after, in June last year, Curt began to dig through the builders' rubble to build a bigger pond.

We were persuaded that the new pond would help wildlife because the wetland, as it had established itself, dried up, not completely but quite a lot, every summer.

This new pond, Curt told us, would be much better for frogs.

It is possible that this would have been the case had certain members of the parish council been hell-bent on creating a park out of what is, or was, a wild area.

Poor dead frog.

Niki.