I don’t know if you have heard the expression ‘Pond Life’; it means “A worthless or contemptible person or group.” So as regular readers will have noted that following the renovation of Cooke Towers (not on the constituency expenses!), we have now moved onto the next phase of upgrading Munstead Waters. This has meant that I have been spending many a happy hour digging pits for filters and trenches for electricity supplies, not to mention being up to my elbows in silty, brown goo that we have been filtering out of the water!
However, and this is the point of my tale, I find that I am totally engrossed by every pond skimmer, dragonfly larvae, tadpole, snail and fish! They all have their place in the bio-system of the pond. If I don’t get the environment right for the bacteria that breakdown the fish pooh into plant food, the water starts to poison the fish. READ THE REST OF THE BLOG HERE
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Pond Life??
I don’t know if you have heard the expression ‘Pond Life’; it means “A worthless or contemptible person or group.” So as regular readers will have noted that following the renovation of Cooke Towers (not on the constituency expenses!), we have now moved onto the next phase of upgrading Munstead Waters. This has meant that I have been spending many a happy hour digging pits for filters and trenches for electricity supplies, not to mention being up to my elbows in silty, brown goo that we have been filtering out of the water!
