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I don’t know why I am telling you of my failures but I do need a shoulder to cry on right now. :'(  I recently reduced the size of our pond by two thirds as I am not getting any younger and needing more elbow room in the garden as it is sooooooo small. :-[
Anyway the pond is finished (I thought) and I am quite pleased with the result, except ::)….IT LEAKS BWAAAAAAAR BOO HOO WHAAALE, :'( :'( :'( not only that but it leaked the fist attempt :'( :'( when I made use of the old liner, Ha I hear you say serves you right you should have been more careful, ??? This time as it was a brand new liner I took every precaution (except that one) :-[ I vacuumed up every particle as I worked my way round inside the pond I went in bare foot, :o put 3 inches of soft sand on the base added linen around the walls and it LEAKED. :'( :'( :'(

I am tempted to fill it in and grow a palm tree in the middle Phaa. >:(
Here’s the Pond picky, garden not finished. (Ha nor the pond).  >:( >:(www.rrbg06748.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pond8.jpg


Gardengirl Pat I didn’t pinch your pebble idea as I didn’t trust my building skills or lack of them,but would have loved to have used it. :)

Roy :'( :'( :'(

There, there Roy it'll all come right in the end!!!

Let me kiss it better for you  :-* :-* how's that?!?

Seriously though - really frustrating after all the effort you put into ensuring everything was 'just right'. Hope you find the leak and get the pond up and running soon.

Eileen.

 ;D ;D ;D aah! thanks Eileen ;D ;D I feel so much better now :-*a problem shared as they say. Still not solved it yet but my pecker is up :o now thank you ;)

Roy ;D

Roy, just wanted to say that I love your pond.  It looks like an amazing tropical bath in the jungle.  I could just see me in there having a soak(just like Jane in the jungle)   surrounded by all that fantastic greenery and the odd fishy or two.  Fantastic.


Forgot to add:- would have to have a large strawberry daquari  to slurp while I was in there too ;)

Hello, Roy  ;D
Loved the pic of your "outdoor room" - it looks right out of the pages of a posh mag article on a celebrity's gaaden dahling!  8)
Are you planning on some large leafy plants to surround it?
Re your leaky liner: dinna greet, it'll a come right in the end!

Roy, you really didn't need to pinch my ideas - you have made a great job of your pond.  Sorry about the leak, but I am sure it will come good in the end.  Sending you lots of big hugs

Thanks for the encouraging and kind words girls, ;) everything seemed to come to a standstill since the dreaded leak. ::) I am working on a way to replace the liner without having to remove all the edging timber. :-\

I’ll show you some more piccys when the rest of the garden finally gets straight. :)

Roy ;D