Retirement is the longed-for release from the necessity of earning a living, the opportunity to dabble full-time in whatever takes your fancy. Mine is to recall and revitalise long-deferred or dispersed reflections and speculations, to collect and cultivate these intellectual seeds and strands in one organic natural home. Here then are my babblings of the pond …
… a small watery haven nestling among the tumbledown rocks and sinuous vegetation of our sheltered back garden. Unlike those of the proverbial brook these babbling waters have no destination. They teem with a diversity of life forms, circling and colliding in shimmery commerce between precision and the imagination.
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The Babbling Pond 