Fiona's Quiet Life

I have not been Idle.…..well i have quite a lot of the time but as the morn­ings get light and wake me up i have been rising earlier and get­ting things done.

All of a sud­den i got energy ., tidied up the house and turned my focus on the garden, there was this dead space under the syca­more tree,nothing much grows there and it is messy and bor­ing, so hav­ing con­tem­plated it for a while i decided to dig…and dig…and dig.

Out came my cata­logue from wig­g­ly­wig­glers .com and an order was placed for pond plants, so now i really had to dig before they arrived, also before the now rare rain to began fall. i did just over an hour a day for a week, him upstairs help­ing for the final deep bit at one end.

pho­to­graph here is of the hole

after an hour of digging.

i bought a huge bit of plastic sheet pond liner and after first put­ting some of the old mesh bags that the sand etc for the build­ing work came in, then put­ting in some old car­pet to make sure noth­ing sharp poked holes in the plastic.…put the plastic sheet in .leav­ing a big over­lap so it can settle down into the hole when the water goes in.

and that is where it is at , there is a wee bit of water in it and rain is prom­ised for tomorrow.…dont want to use tap water.…and a bucket of pond water from an old estab­lished pond to get it going, some plants arriv­ing soon and more deep water ones arriv­ing in May.

been back in Chip­pen­ham get­ting exer­cise run­ning after small boys on way to and from school.6year old teach­ing me mar­tial arts…he is good at it , i am not…yet.

hav­ing at last got the hang of salsa but still get­ting very short of breath with it i have now taken up Zumba, it is huge fun and excel­lent exer­cise, i can’t describe it , a cross between salsa and a belly dance on speed is the nearest i can come up with.

Inter­est­ing  anec­dote, two dif­fer­ent people had same thing hap­pen to them in local res­tur­ants recently. they were given a bill and on look­ing at it they real­ised it was wrong by a few pounds, the own­ers came and said they had been given another tables bill.……once maybe, but twice.….…

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