The pond is started - late summer 2009

Back in the summer of 2009, my son produced a rough drawing on a scrap of paper for a pond in our garden, with two streams coming round a cherry tree and a figure of eight pool.  Here's the drawing from which our pond was born!

The hard work started late summer and my two sons did most of the digging out.  I'm ashamed to say I only joined when most of the digging was complete - but, hey... what are sons for?

Here's the work in progress on the pond basin.  As you can see, it's not a conventional area to work with.

Here the streams have been dug initially to get the shape and we have starting laying some of the key drop stones.  Still a long way to go!