"Like this response to my post.
I also think that in reality, people like to have those locked french doors open every once in a while.
You don't know my living circumstances."
HeadDreamer that's the second time you've quoted my response. Did you get cross because I didn't answer right away? Well here goes - the fact that you have a garden, but never use it, puts you in a minority. I find it ... odd that you think there are loads of people have ponds, but their children literally never get near them, so of course they don't need to be covered up. I mean, really? If you don't want to use your garden, fine, but at least appreciate that most people do use theirs?!
I am aware that there are people without gardens or indeed back doors. I am one of them.
I was also speaking in general terms. Of course I don't know your living circumstances. No need to start taking things personally.
Moving on - this thread is reminding me that I fell into a relative's pond as a child. I was walking on the ice and it cracked and I fell in, then simply could not scrabble back out (I was about 4). I was rescued and all was well.
Years later, I saw the pond again - now empty - and was stunned to see how small and shallow it was. I remembered it as bottomless and large enough to "skate" on. In reality, it was smaller than a bathtub. It would have been very easy for things to have ended differently.