Mogga wrote:

Would you not be plagued with returning frogs?
I'd keep the pond and make it safe and have a lidded sandpit
elsewhere.

Frogs are fantastic.

Our pond (when I was a kid) was "un cared for" and far more interesting
for the wild-life it attracted.
And frogs eat slugs and other garden un-friendly creatures.

Every small pond is a living breathing nature reserve.

:¬)