Monday 15 April

Q -What is an ideal situation when you lay a new Pond Liner

A – For it to rain heavily after laying it, in dry conditions.

So today was not so ideal, as the heavy rain came from the early morning, but there was no chance of cancelling the delivery, even though further work was impossible

In the event, sixteen of the Group stood around in high winds, rain and hail, for the delivery which was over an hour late. Then using the driver’s hydraulic lift, we manhandled the bulky pond liner so far, until the mud beat us. But this was only a short delay, as a length of rope was located, and so with this (and brute force) we manhandled the huge bundle as near to the Pond as possible, without causing a path obstruction.

This was a fantastic team effort; thank you to everyone who turned out in the terrible weather.