Day four - Excused boots!🥾

DPD didn’t deliver the liner till shy of midday, so I took Mrs Snippets to Bernaville Nurseries Garden Centre, Upton Pyne , Exeter. We both enjoyed a looksee as well as a sandwich and a coffee. It’s one of the best garden centres for miles. The weather helped too but a little windy.

The real upshot was that I was excused boots yet again. (Military term - ‘allowed to avoid mandatory tasks’)

I bought the pond liner online from Pondkeeper. The model being ‘Tench’. It was reduced from £99.99 to £49.99, which was nice. It measures 125cm x 85cm x 34cm.

You can check out their site by clicking the below link.

https://www.pondkeeper.co.uk/pondxpert-preformed-pond-tench/

I unpacked it and placed it in the prepared hole but it was sitting proud even after having dug down to their recommended depth, so I’ll have to dig down another 75mm. But luckily not all of the hole needs excavating as the pond tapers from the deep wide end towards the narrow shallower end.

I’ll need to line the hole first with sand in order to protect the liner from sharp stones and maybe back fill with sand too, as it will be easier than using the clay clods.

I wanted a bigger liner initially, the ‘Tench’ model, but as I was unsure of the ground makeup and wanted to avoid the bank edges collapsing in, I decided to play it safe.

The £50 price difference can go towards a pump or pond plants.