When Alistair and Diane Gould bought Furnace Brook in 2013, they had big plans. It was an idyllic(田园诗般的) spot: a stream-fed fishing lake nestled in(坐落于、依偎在) a secluded(幽静的、隐蔽的) valley in the High Weald(英格兰东南部的高威尔德地区), East Sussex, surrounded by woodland and fields. “People loved to come fishing here because it’s so beautiful,” says Diane. “Some of them had been coming for so many years that they got to know the individual fish.”
2013年，阿利斯泰尔和黛安·古尔德买下弗内斯溪时，心中有着宏大的计划。那是一处田园诗般的地方：一个由溪水补给的垂钓湖，坐落在东萨塞克斯郡高威尔德一处幽静的山谷中，四周环绕着林地与田野。“人们喜欢来这里钓鱼，因为这里太美了，”黛安说，“有些人来了很多年，连每条鱼都认得了。”
Diane moved here from Kent in 2000, when Furnace Brook was owned by a distant relative. Her two younger sons, then 10 and 14, flourished(茁壮成长、兴旺). They would chat to the angler(钓鱼者、垂钓者)s about the fish they were catching and throwing back in, and sell them bacon sandwiches. Her elder son, Simon, moved from London to join them in 2006 and became a keen angler himself, and then the fishing manager, or bailiff(渔场看守人), looking after the fish and the landscape around the lake.
黛安2000年从肯特郡搬到这里，当时弗内斯溪归一位远亲所有。她的两个小儿子当时分别10岁和14岁，在这里茁壮成长。他们会和钓鱼的人聊起钓到又放回的鱼，还卖培根三明治给他们。她的大儿子西蒙2006年从伦敦搬来与他们团聚，自己也成了钓鱼迷，后来当上渔场管理员，也就是负责照看鱼群和湖泊周边景观的看守人。
Diane, who is 68, and Alistair, 69, met in 2008. After Diane’s relative died, they decided to buy the property. Alistair, an ecological consultant(生态顾问) with a background in low-carbon design, had drawn up a plan to restore(恢复、修复) the entire ecosystem of the eight-hectare (20-acre) site. But two years ago, their plans were blown out of the water(被彻底打乱、被摧毁).
68岁的黛安和69岁的阿利斯泰尔2008年相识。黛安的亲戚去世后，两人决定买下这处产业。阿利斯泰尔是一名生态顾问，有低碳设计的背景，他制定了一份计划，要恢复这片8公顷（20英亩）场地的整个生态系统。但两年前，他们的计划被彻底打乱了。