# Pond forecast

*And now the pond forecast, issued at nineteen hundred by the frog, on behalf of the frog.*

There are warnings of tongue in Lily, Near Reed and Low Sky.

The general synopsis at eighteen hundred: frog, one lily pad, stationary, expected to remain so. Flies, five, drifting, returning.

**Lily.** Calm. Glassy. Frog. Good.
**Near Reed, Far Reed.** Variable 1. Smooth, occasionally rippled. Dragonfly later. Good.
**Deep Middle.** Calm. Glassy. Nothing seen. Very good, becoming poor below.
**Stone.** Northerly 1. Smooth. Turtle, occasionally. Moderate.
**Low Sky.** Variable 2, erratic. Flies, then fewer flies. Good, becoming poor for flies.
**High Sky.** Westerly 3. Heron possible. Good.
**The Drain.** Mind the drain.

And the reports from stations around the pond at eighteen hundred. Lily Pad Automatic: calm, one frog, 1013, steady. Far Bank: west 1, midges, 1012, falling slowly. Old Tyre: calm, full, 1010, rising more slowly.

That is the end of the pond forecast.