I thought I saw something odd in the pond a couple of days agao. Something was lurking at the bottom – it was ice. But surely Ice floats! It’s been so cold, the whole pond has frozen solid and is melting from the top down so, as I hope you can see from the picture, there is just a shallow covering of water over a huge block of ice. I do wonder how the pond cratures have coped with it. Just before Christmas, there was a lot of Daphnia about. I’ll have to see when it has warmed up again.