Parklife

Mono Monday: Water Landscape - Parklife

"All the people
So many people
And they all go hand in hand
Hand in hand through their parklife"

Blur ~ Parklife


Cathy and I had a very pleasant walk in the Autumnal sunshine after lunch today. Cathy stopped to hug a tree (see the extra) and I took lots of pictures with water in them in the hope of nabbing a shot that I was prepared to blip for this week's Mono Monday challenge.  

This ornamental pond has been in existence since the floods of 1968.  It was called, delightfully, the bog garden, which always seemed a terrible name to me as a child given that the "bog" was the colloquial term widely used for toilet.  

Originally, where I was standing to take this shot, there was a roofed open stone building.  It was rather a nice structure with a clay pan tiled roof and rustic benches built into the walls, which also housed the water pumping system.  Inevitably it became the hangout for local teenagers and suffered a fair bit of vandalism over the years.  Eventually the Council demolished the structure and the vandalism problem went away.  

When our kids and my siblings' kids came along, their Grandparents (my Mum and Dad) would bring them here to feed the ducks.  Feeding the ducks was a bit of a thing, and always very popular with the younger generation.  So we've fond memories of this little lake.