A first for Hackney, deep in urban London, while the white stuff thaws in the background (after the city's heaviest snowfall in several decades). GNDs are a rare but annual winter visitor to the Greater London area, almost always confined to the huge, open reservoirs of the capital's outskirts. Stoke Newington reservoirs are not only a tiny fraction of their size, but many, many miles further into the concrete jungle; it's the equivalent of a Cream-coloured Courser not on St. Mary's golf course, but under the mini-windmill of the crazy golf course in Grimsby.
(Mark)
