I'd definitely say 'lake' for a park with a large body of water in it -- for reference, Kensington Gardens has the Round Pond and the Serpentine, the latter being a lake (and the former historically being used for model boat sailing). http://osm.org/go/euu4AOuX?m
I heard good things about the new French "Monte Cristo", largely as a result of attempting to watch the somewhat impenetrable (to me) Soviet version :-)
My suspicion is that reading descriptions of ADHD is akin to reading about almost *any* ailment (see the famous "housemaid's knee" passage on reading medical encyclopaedias in "Three Men in a Boat") -- since most observable symptoms, especially of mental illness, are experiences that routinely occur to almost everybody some of the time, they are likely to match up to the reader's experience in a disconcerting way. A bit like the potential side-effects of medicines when you read the small print...
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http://osm.org/go/euu4AOuX?m
I heard good things about the new French "Monte Cristo", largely as a result of attempting to watch the somewhat impenetrable (to me) Soviet version :-)
My suspicion is that reading descriptions of ADHD is akin to reading about almost *any* ailment (see the famous "housemaid's knee" passage on reading medical encyclopaedias in "Three Men in a Boat") -- since most observable symptoms, especially of mental illness, are experiences that routinely occur to almost everybody some of the time, they are likely to match up to the reader's experience in a disconcerting way. A bit like the potential side-effects of medicines when you read the small print...