dolls house

been a bit busy lately, Netty bought a doll's house and we have been busy building and decorating it, it's looking good so far.
this is a picture of the kind of house it is, her's isn't decorated the same as this one and we dont have the basement or plinth but its this house.






















I got 3 koi for the pond on sunday, they are about 10", beautiful fish, don't know the type of koi they are but 2 of them have really gorgeous sky blue backs and the other is mainly orange with black stripes running down it's spine. no doubt one of you will be able to tell me the names??

this and that

got some more fish in the pond now, I know it's supposedly too soon but goldfish are hardier than people say and besides the 4 little ones that were in there looked completely lost in the big pond so we bought a few more little ones and a couple of bigger ones, they seem to be doing ok.
started training them to hand feed and it's going ok, they are coming to my hand now but not actually taking food, won't be long though.

netty has wanted a dolls house for years so on sunday we finally bought one and it's massive, god knows where we are going to put it, we got it from Woodstock Miniatures at Markham Grange garden center near Doncaster, what a place that is, everything you need and the bloke that runs it is so friendly and informative it's unbelievable.
It came in kit form and we got it built and the exterior painted on sunday and yesterday, from now on it's nothing to do with me, she needs to start planning the interior and then get a better paid job to pay for it all, it looks good though so far.

pics as promised

As promised here are some pictures of the pond.

First one is of my grandson Chrissy helping out when construction has just started.

Second one is the finished (nearly) product.

Quite pleased with ourselves, what do you reckon?

pond done

the pond is finished, well apart from a bit of concreting.
plants are in, fish are in, i know it's too soon for fish but we had to empty the old little pond so they have gone in the new one, there's only 4 so they should be ok.
photos to follow when i can get my hands on the camera... netty seems to have claimed it as hers.. she's doing a photo diary of the building of the pond.

not much to do now

poind is filled, electrics are dug in, flags are cemented down, going to look at plants tomorrow, it's looking good.
it's not perfect, in fact far from it, i'm not good at measuring and levelling and stuff but it's a pond which is something i've wanted for years and it's been built by me & netty and it's ours.

pond nearly done

I've had a couple of posts for you over the last few days but I couldn't get 'em to publish for some reason.
Anyway the pond is dug, carpeted, linered(?) and nearly filled, just gotta get some cement now to do the flags round the edges and we'll be laughing.