Skerret wrote:This is what we have become. We went and got old.
Webbins wrote:Misleading thread title. I thought you needed help with somebody who had wronged you.
Webbins wrote:I mean if you did need help, just saying. I'm not cheap but I'm thorough. No women, no kids.
cockbeard wrote:Ponds not too difficult, just need to set aside an hour or so every week Used to keep one at my mum's house, was my dad's but when he passed I took it on, he'd given me a half decent apprenticeship The deciduous thing is just because you'll have to spend time fishing the leaves out, you want sunlight on the water because that will help the algae grow and therefore oxygenate the water. Have the pump suck out of pond into a tank filled with gravel to clean the water, if you can have that water fall into the pong then that will also help oxygenate it further. We always had about a third of the pond full of algae, this not only helped with oxygen, but meant that fry had half a chance of surviving as certain parts were too thickly grown for adult fish to swim in and eat them
Escape wrote:Sister wanted a pond when we were kids, so our dad brought home an old free bathtub from his building travels. Blue, it is. And it's still there in his garden, only it's now filled-in with mud and covered over with grass. Couldn't be arsed removing it, see. You can feel where it is on a wet day, as your feet sink a bit, like a poor man's NeverEnding Story.
g.man wrote:I like the idea of grumpy ducks.
davyK wrote:g.man wrote:I like the idea of grumpy ducks.
I was going door to door asking about sightings of our escaped rabbits when our neighbour bemoaned the fact that her ducks had lived far longer than anticipated and were grumpy sods. We used to hear them very early in the morning - no doubt squabbling. It's all gone quiet though. Lest we forget.
yourfavouriteuncle wrote:I design gardens for a living so I'm gonna be your man to talk to on this.
Escape wrote:How'd you get into that? Is the money good, or have I imagined that part? I do some cash-in-hand gardening, y'see, and not much else; t'other end of t'spectrum. I could remove a pond. I'd love to work as a labourer if the money was high and the idiot-count low. Somes dudes who worked on Wells Cathedral were paid loads, and their workrate was easy by necessity to avoid damages. That's a world away from working with Sun-readers on a Wimpey estate. Obviously, the former had to know plenty about OG methods and materials; can't just pour in concrete like Polyfilla.yourfavouriteuncle wrote:I design gardens for a living so I'm gonna be your man to talk to on this.
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