cross-posted from: https://lemmy.stad.social/post/17859
From last year sometime, I think.
Nice, free ducks!
Yeah, but you've gotta take mummy duck with them, or mummy duck will be heartbroken.
South, North, Wood, Lake..... Hmmm. Your ancestors weren't imaginative in their naming strategies huh? (I come from New South Wales, so similar problem).
Funny thing is it's not a proper lake, and not very old. It's an artificial basin that was originally prepared to allow for control of the height of a canal dug all the way from the Thames a few miles away, for transport. But they finished it not long before the railway came, and it went bankrupt, and the canal path itself was sold off to a railway company and is now the path of one of the main London rail lines. As a result there are roads near me, nowhere near water, named things like Towpath Way and Canal Walk.