New Fence

For the anoraks amongst us, here's a couple of pictures of our new fence. Of course, they won't mean very much in the absence of photographs, for comparison, of the old and collapsing one, but for the record this fence consists of feather-edged panels (turned outwards so that the bars can be used to anchor climbing plants on our side) with a trellis on top, supported on concrete baseboards (to protect against rising damp) and with concrete uprights. Full details (for those for whom one anorak just isn't enough) on the Leyton Fencing website.

To finish off, here's a picture of some more frogspawn. There are now four clumps in the garden pond (and three in the allotment pond, according to Judith -- I haven't yet seen them for myself), and our next major project will be to drain and redig that, to both enlarge and deepen it and provide a new liner that (unlike the present one) doesn't have a pinhole leak somewhere in it. That will of course require moving the frogspawn to a temporary tank, which I hope we can manage before the tadpoles start hatching out....