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Would you fill in this pond?
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And post the rightmove link when your house goes on the market...we've all seen your garden now let us have a nose around the house!
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fairy_lights wrote: »And post the rightmove link when your house goes on the market...we've all seen your garden now let us have a nose around the house!
Lol, I promise to post some links when it's done. I've already got a new home for the fish arranged, so this Saturday will be a busy one. Happened quicker than expected!0 -
Glad the pond is going. My first assumption was a natural-looking pond set in large lawn and I would have kept it - because I want a pond. But that pond in that garden = no definitely not (and I don't have children).
Re the children aspect - well there is always the very unlikely chance of getting Dutch buyers (ie they train their children from a very early age to be appropriately wary of water I gather) - but, given the chances of that happening are low - then a British family being likely buyers of your house = another reason to get rid.0 -
Just a thought - if when you come to demolish the pond there turns out to be a family of frogs or other aquatic life in there, do you have any nearby parks with ponds where you can safely release them?Lol, I promise to post some links when it's done. I've already got a new home for the fish arranged, so this Saturday will be a busy one. Happened quicker than expected!0 -
fairy_lights wrote: »Just a thought - if when you come to demolish the pond there turns out to be a family of frogs or other aquatic life in there, do you have any nearby parks with ponds where you can safely release them?
As it's raised, we're never had any frogs - damselfly larvae are however going to take a hit on this one - as will pond snails.0 -
moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »
Re the children aspect - well there is always the very unlikely chance of getting Dutch buyers (ie they train their children from a very early age to be appropriately wary of water I gather) - but, given the chances of that happening are low - then a British family being likely buyers of your house = another reason to get rid.
Why Dutch? Why not Norwegians, who give their kids a much healthier approach to risk, by allowing them to do things children in this country rarely do nowadays.
Or even nasty old me, who allowed both kids to fall, supervised, into ponds at appropriate times, because they will....once!
The kind of pond pictured here drowns very few people regardless of age, if sober, and it's not icy cold, and they're not on the way home from the pub......but I digress.
The kind of pond that kills is the sunken half or full barrel stuck innocently in the corner, or the water butt with no lid.0 -
Why Dutch? Why not Norwegians, who give their kids a much healthier approach to risk, by allowing them to do things children in this country rarely do nowadays.
Or even nasty old me, who allowed both kids to fall, supervised, into ponds at appropriate times, because they will....once!
The kind of pond pictured here drowns very few people regardless of age, if sober, and it's not icy cold, and they're not on the way home from the pub......but I digress.
The kind of pond that kills is the sunken half or full barrel stuck innocently in the corner, or the water butt with no lid.
That pond probably looks quite shallow, but it's about 5.5 foot deep.0 -
As it's raised, we're never had any frogs - damselfly larvae are however going to take a hit on this one - as will pond snails.
No frog or toad would have the slightest bother ascending that pile of rocks at the end.
Your pond is almost a carbon copy of the one I left behind at the old place, which was a meeting/mating place for all the frogs, toads and newts in the area.
No, it's something else that's keeping the frogs etc away, like another older-established pond nearby, or lack of access to the garden, or just a lack of amphibians in the area generally.0 -
I would have thought that the mummified toddler standing near the bottom end would be indication enough that you ought to get rid of your pond.
Seriously, get it gone. It's not much of a looker anyway.Mornië utulië0
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