The Story Continues
Since the completion of the pond the work has continued to add the finishing touches. This section shows this extra work. This picture shows the pond at the beginning of May 2012.
A large part of the work was to add a roof to the gazebo. It has a low pitch, to keep the height below that where planning permission was needed, and is slate, with lead flashing over the hips.
I also put in a little woodburning stove, to provide a bit of interest and heat on cool summer evenings. It's a better (and more expensive!) solution than a chimenea because the smoke is routed outside and above the roof.
The teraccotta water butt is actually a second-hand container that in its first life was used to transport olives!
I wanted to put a net over the pond to protect the fish from cats and herons. The stainless tubing is fitted over these stainless rods that were inserted under the coping.
This shows the netting in place...
... and this is a close-up of the netting threaded over the tubing.
May 2012: We've been featured in Koi Magazine!!!
I published an abbreviated version of the web site on the Koi Magazine Forum, and the magazine asked for an artcle. You'll recognise the photos (all of them are on this website) but I was really pleased to see the finished article (with prize!). You can see the article here
July 2012: Using up the spare oak sleepers...
We had two sleepers left and a few bits and pieces. Using Sketchup, I made a design for a sort of table/bar structure, which we made into the thing pictured here. It was quite hard work (I'm no woodworker) and destroyed by trusty old drill, wwhich really didn't like drilling out the sockets for the uprights...