More history and more snow

 

So there we were in the middle of storm Christoph, driving rain, wind, when suddenly it became a white out.

The pond froze up again pretty quickly and the ducks predictably fled.  More came down yesterday and we were left with a beautiful winter wonderland.

Last night I wrapped up and went down to sit in the arbour for half an hour.  It was lovely just to sit in the dark and watch the snow and the frozen water.  On my walk around the pond I discovered it seems to have flooded over a lot further than the traditional edges we are used to, it's actually flooded a little into next doors garden and I imagine when all this snow melts again that might get a bit worse.  Meanwhile I'm looking at the ground worrying over the state of my grass underneath it (sorry neighbour!)

In other news, my research into the pond has yielded a little more information.  When I was a child there was a disused airfield locally.  It was amazing, I spent hours of my youth peddling my chopper down the runway.  The factory behind our house was used to make aeroplanes, specifically Spitfire.  They were then wheeled across the road onto the runway and off to war.  Eventually in the 80's the aerodrome was sold and houses built, there was also a dual carriageway put in.  It turns out our pond was part of the airfield.  When the road went in it was part of a small parcel of land that was cut off by it and so, was purchased by the people who owned the farm our home was built on.

Local legend says that when the aircraft factory finished producing planes after the war there was a fair bit of leftover parts.  There are several ponds on the site of the airfield and stories tell of these parts being thrown in.  Now I'm 100% certain there is nothing in our pond (it was drained once, but thats a story for another day!) but it's got Steve wondering what could be in the land around us.  He's now looking to buy himself a second hand metal detector to find out 😂  We're also just off a Roman Road here.  Might find a hoard.  I suspect in reality he'll find a few old milk bottle caps as the farm was a dairy!   Still, keep him good for a bit hehe.

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