I lasted about ten minutes at Wisley on Saturday until I ascertained that the only water features available were water butts with old-fashioned pumps on them. But never fear, it was back to good old Squires, where I think I horrified the poor lad in Pets & Aquatics by wanting to buy a fountain in December.
The thing weighed 26kg and very nearly didn't fit into my old banger Christine. But we made it home and wheeled it round to the back. I rewarded Hubster with a couple of Krispy Kreme doughnuts (which should be available on the NHS), and then set to work building it. I felt just like Charlie Dimmock (with significantly more scaffolding...).
And here it is in all its glory!
There's a video of it working here (I might not recommend it if your bladder is feeling a bit full...).
It's been drained again so as not to split the polyfibre if it ices up, and I'll fill it up when the frosts are gone in March or so (I love living in Zone 9a!). I think I'll be moving a couple of ferns around so that (as Northern Shade suggested) they can frame the cascade.
And then I should probably have stopped. But I was determined to make sure the flex could fit between the door and doorframe. Ideally we would have had a file or a chisel, or some useful tool. But we didn't. However, we did have a junior hacksaw, a hammer and a few screwdrivers.
Well, there's now a really nice notch in the doorframe, and the flex fits through with plenty of room. The transformer can go on the wall in the back hall and the plug will be routed through a timer in the kitchen. There's also a really nice notch in my thumb, middle finger and ring finger.
This is probably why Hubster doesn't let me do DIY.
The thing weighed 26kg and very nearly didn't fit into my old banger Christine. But we made it home and wheeled it round to the back. I rewarded Hubster with a couple of Krispy Kreme doughnuts (which should be available on the NHS), and then set to work building it. I felt just like Charlie Dimmock (with significantly more scaffolding...).
And here it is in all its glory!
There's a video of it working here (I might not recommend it if your bladder is feeling a bit full...).
It's been drained again so as not to split the polyfibre if it ices up, and I'll fill it up when the frosts are gone in March or so (I love living in Zone 9a!). I think I'll be moving a couple of ferns around so that (as Northern Shade suggested) they can frame the cascade.
And then I should probably have stopped. But I was determined to make sure the flex could fit between the door and doorframe. Ideally we would have had a file or a chisel, or some useful tool. But we didn't. However, we did have a junior hacksaw, a hammer and a few screwdrivers.
Well, there's now a really nice notch in the doorframe, and the flex fits through with plenty of room. The transformer can go on the wall in the back hall and the plug will be routed through a timer in the kitchen. There's also a really nice notch in my thumb, middle finger and ring finger.
This is probably why Hubster doesn't let me do DIY.
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