I find reading the mails from Claire and Alisonclair above extremely comforting that I am not the only one excited by a new pond. The concept that you just fill it up, add a few plants and then sit back and wait for it all to arrive takes a bit of swallowing as a novice
, but arrive it does. I spent the winter wishing my life away, not so much because of the unusually cold and snowy weather, but because I couldn't wait for the arrival of my first batch of frogspawn. Then one morning about a month ago, great joy, there it was, large as life!! Is this recapitulation I ask myself?
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