A Simple Life of Luxury

Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means

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Gardening

Pond Update

Seeing as it’s now been just over a year since we decided (on somewhat of a whim) to create a pond in the garden, I thought I’d update you on its progress. It was always intended as a ‘wildlife’ pond. That’s an excuse for letting it go a bit wild, leaving it to do its...

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Gardening

A Pond Update

It’s been a few weeks since we first built our pond. It seems to be maturing well and looks nice. There was a bit of an initial algal bloom, but that was expected and didn’t come to much. It’s now full of life and already looks fairly mature. The water is full of larvae of...

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Gardening

Project Pond – Part 2

Last weekend’s ‘Project Pond‘ had a bit of a hiatus thanks to a busy week at work, but with another bank holiday weekend to play with it was straight back to it on Friday evening. The liner and pond membrane I ordered had already arrived so it was time to make it look like a...

Digging a Pond 3

Gardening

Project Pond

I finished a previous post about the garden by saying: All in all, other than sorting out the water feature I think I’m now on top of the chores in the garden and just have to keep it looking tidy. https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2023/04/bank-holiday-planting/ Water Feature Re-Location So, with the garden somewhat under control, it was time to...