Keys Corner

We’re taking off for a bit more than a couple of weeks, heading down to Valencia in the car to look up a cousin of mine and do some sightseeing in France and Spain at the same time. Depending on whether we find convenient free access to WLANs while we are traveling, we may . . . → Read More: Traveling for a bit

Palisades at the side of the pond
The last couple of years, we’ve had problems during heavy rain that our pond overflows into the neighbour’s garden downhill from us. Obviously they weren’t terribly pleased to have their large wooden shed occasionally under water, and as the side of the pond is held back by wooden palisades which have been in place since the house was built about 20 years ago, we were quite worried that they might be rotting and that one day our pond might end up completely in their garden.

In the photo above you can see the pipe we connected to a heavy-duty pump to keep the pond under control when it rained a lot – it looks as if we’re pumping into the neighbour’s garden; which we are, but the pipe goes straight into an underground stream and doesn’t flood their garden.
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