2 October 2011

Did The Earth Move For You?

First of all .... where has the year gone? I can't believe we're in to October already, not that you'd know from the glorious weather we've been experiencing of late. And i know I've said it before but yet again i can't believe it's been two weeks since our last blog update again. It would seem that we're currently living our lives by the fortnight instead of on a week by week basis. I guess that's what comes of being busy.

Very little has happened pond wise over the last couple of weeks really. We've had to make some modifications to the pipework which takes the waste water from the filters as originally this was also connected to the drain in the filter house floor. The problem being when you fully opened up any of the waste valves the water backed up and flooded out of the drain in the floor. We've now separated the waste filter pipework from the drain to alleviate this problem.

The additional brick work etc that's required to "finish off" the pond has been put on hold for the immediate future as Gaz (who completed the block work for us and is scheduled to tackle this job) and his partner are expecting their first child anytime now. So as you can expect, he's been rather busy at home preparing for the new arrival. We wish soon to be Mum & Dad all the very best and look forward to seeing them with baby very soon.

In the meantime we've been diverting our attention and energies back to our original plan at the start of the year ... the revamping of the middle garden. Blog followers may remember that the work planned to revamp this area had to be postponed when we decided to rebuild the pond, especially as we needed somewhere to put the masses of earth which we dug out. Well I'm glad to say that with some hard work and determination, plus the help of some family and friends we've finally managed to get rid of the earth. What's more, we've even managed to rotivate the area in readiness for the official work to commence once again.


We didn't stop there though! We utilised the rotivator whilst we had it to go over the area around the pond in order to help us level off this area again in readiness for finishing off, although this would have to be next year. We'll have to re-rake the area a number of times before it's as level as we want it so in the meantime, and especially as the members of the EYKS are coming to see our progress so far next Sunday, we've laid out the landscape fabric and temporarily held it with bricks until we're ready to permanently fix in place.

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