I smiled this morning. In today’s TIMES a beautiful photograph of a pond! Even ‘iconic’ as the pond, like many others, were filled in. The one in the photo has been restored.
There is therefore some news on a blood soaked Monday morning. It’s in THE TIMES if you want to see the photo.
Good news to start the day: An ancient pond in Bodham, Norfolk has become the latest ghost pond to be restored to its ecosystem that was last active decades ago. After the Second World War farmers across the country tended to fill in ancient ponds to grow more crops. Professor Carl Sayer, from University College London, is part of a ten-year-old project to restore the ponds that were filled in by farmers over the past two centuries and finds them by using old maps from 1830 onwards.
“They are like time capsules,” he said. “It’s this amazing layer of mud, a metre to two metres down. And it’s so quick.” They have shown in a laboratory that the ancient seeds still sprout, and seen in the field what that means. “You just have to dig the hole in September, you’ll have plants by March, and it will be absolutely full by late summer.”
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