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Fri 17th February 2012 09:45 by David Miller
The worst is over?
I hope so. I just pulled 7 dead frogs out of my garden pond in Leyton. I hadn't expected them so soon after the freeze. Maybe I'd allowed the pond to become too choked and therefore shallow.