Early one morning just as the sun was rising................

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No I am not about to sing you a song Lol. I started to tell you a story some while ago before my camera started playing up and before I had managed to get the appropriate pictures installed on computer.

Anyway as I was saying, John looked out of the kitchen window and exclaimed that the water in the pond looked a bit low. We went to investigate and found the level had dropped conciderably and we had visions of it all leaking out and marooning the poor fish. The previous day a garden chair had been blown into the pond so we assumed that must have punctured the liner.

So thinking caps on. The fish are quite big and the last time we needed to empty the pond we struggled to find a container big enough to keep them happy long enough to drain the water, replace the liner and then re-fill the pond.
We have mixer taps in the kitchen which won’t accomodate any of the hose-pipe connectors that we have looked at so all water in and out of the pond has to be bucketed out! We just weren’t looking forward to these jobs at all.

John then had a eureka moment, so up the stairs I scurried to un-earth the grandchildrens blow up paddling pool. As we haven’t got a pump it meant we had to blow it up ourselves. No mean task!

Well we had to have a bit of fun!
So buckets, nets and wellies at the ready we prepared for the hard work ahead…..to get the fish out, empty all the water, go and buy a new liner, then re-fill the hole again to create the fish’s new home.
Suddenly John cried out, (I thought he had fallen in!) But no! He grinned and said,“Just look at the soil at the side of the waterfall!” A senior moment perhaps? Then I saw what he had just discovered; the soil area that he was pointing at was much darker in colour than the surrounding soil! In a flash he was on his hands and knees on the very soggy soil!

All became clear when he found the soil very soggy in just one small area, but big enough to be emptying the gallons of water. It could have been a cat but the previous day we had seen a hedgehog so maybe he had been guilty of snuffling about under the stones and rocks and dislodged one that was holding up the side of the waterfall liner, thus slowly emptying all the precious water. This rectified our task was much simpler. Now all that was needed was the carrying of water from the kitchen and our water butt.

So that was our Sunday morning; but we were just so pleased that it ended happily. The fish are happily (I think!) swimming around unaware of the drama which surrounded them!

• 27 Sep, 2009
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