DAVID ATTENBOROUGH IN SPATE

(breathing stertorously) . . . I'm standing

here . . . in the middle of a puddle . . . it’s a

very large puddle . . . as you can see . . . so

all around me lies an expanse of still cold

water . . . but not just any still water . . .

for here . . . amongst the last melting ice

floes of Antarctica . . . exists that rare

commodity on planet Earth . . . the like of

which we shall seldom see again . . . I

mean . . . chemically pure water . . . cool

clear fresh water.

                                    Michael Small

July 9-10, 2002   

published Kensington and Chelsea Times,

                        London, February, 2013