It's a Sign!

No longer do we need a bit of plywood with black marker pen!  You don't really get the scale from this, but it's 2'6" long x 9" x 6"  in old money (weighs a ton...) and it looks great.

Ready for inspection when Pat and Judy come to visit in a couple of weeks ☺

It's a Kind of Magic

You dig a hole in the ground and let the rain fill it up a bit.  And - Abracadabra! - it's got pond beetles in already  😀  Only a matter of time before fish spontaneously appear, I'm sure. 
We went to the pond shop to try to buy him some waterweed but it seems to be close season for weed - he'll have to live with 'liner sauvage' for a couple of weeks yet...