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Remember the little scrape out the back of the kitchen? Well it is no longer there. It has been replaced by a deck which we can access from the kitchen, a pond and a bog garden. Water from the roof feeds the pond (so far it has remained just about full in spite of a horrible drought), it overflows through a pipe under a causeway into the bog garden and when that overflows the water drains into the stream. Here is a slide show of the whole thing being built, including the diversion to shore up the crumbling banks of the stream with lovely boulder filled gabions.
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