Tag: pond
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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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Cold, isn’t it?
Well, cold enough for us over here anyhow! It was minus five when I awoke this morning, on the weather station above chez bish, and we’re in a small dip between hills and shielded from the worst of the winter winds. It’s clearly having an effect on the local wildlife, as we were today oversailed…
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The flowers are beating the weeds – just!
Summer is in full swing now, and the garden is doing whatever it feels like – ’cause it’s too, too hot to worry about weeding! More pictures if you click the clicky ‘more’ (unless there’s no clicky, in which case there’s no more! Grin)…
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