Category: pond
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Pond Updates
Are you still reading this nonsense? LOL, ok. Since the last update lots has happened – not least a three week sojourn in France while the UK has gone utterly bonkers. Again. So, before we left to look after gites in Homps, the old oval pond started to look more rectangular. My bricking skills are…
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Pondifications
18.04 Bucket and chuck it wasn’t getting me very far, even after I’d dropped the water using the pump. It took a retired school ma’am to suggest the pick. Several random stabs later and overnight the pond is empty but for a thick gooey residue of mud – which will go very well on the vegetable…
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Got Him!
Got Him! After failing for days, this afternoon I managed to grab the last ghost koi from the leaky pond! Not a great photo, but I was holding the net over the tank with one hand, and the iPhone with the other. Even iPhones aren’t perfect… Just for info, I measured the hole in the…
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A fish called Lucky
By the early evening today we had a functioning holding tank. The cube was filled with water from the tap, and then made fish-safe by dint of adding half a bottle of Blagdon “Fresh Start” water conditioner. The pump was extracted from the pond and cleaned up, and the UV lamp and pressurised filter likewise.…
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Pondering a new project
Oh dear. We’ve got a leak… and an opportunity. Back when we moved into our home in 2001, the back garden was the back mud… gradually, we created some kind of garden and eventually I built a pond. In 2005 it looked like this. The number of fish varied of course, as new fish were hatched…
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