Snow and ice in Richmond park

It is still very much winter here in Richmond. We reported on last week's snow and just when it had all more or less melted away, we got a new helping on Thursday night, but not quite as much as the first lot. On top of that it has been quite cold, with tempertures hardly above freezing during the day for the past few days (and down to -4 at night). Now that is nothing compared with what they have to cope with in continental Europe (there was even snow on the pitch at the Italy - England tri-nations Rugby match in the Olympic stadium in Rome last night), but it is still pretty cold in our experience.
Today, we went for a walk in Richmond Park, to see the frozen ponds there. Richmond Park is one of London's Royal Parks and covers 2360 acres (almost 10 square KM's). It has over 600 red and fallow deer. Although just above freezing, it felt pretty cold as it was one of these grey and damp UK days. But a very nice walk nonetheless. Here are pictures of one of the frozen ponds and of a herd of deer.

There were actually quite a few people in the park, although not on the ice as there were signs to warn of 'thin ice'. Did not look that thin to me, but the famous (and sometimes somewhat over the top) 'Health and Safety' laws will probably require these signs to be erected as long as there is any water under the ice....