bank holiday Monday and I am awake and making my partner a cup of tea quite early because this is the last forecast sunny day for a while and that means its clean the pond day. So after a bit of lazing its up for breakfast and heading out into the garden. I open everything up and get to work on a very overgrown pond with a huge rooted Lilly thing that has not flowered for at least three years, if that. The pond is in a shambolic state and it is netted, which makes things harder.

It takes a long time to get ride of the old netting and the dead plants from around the edges before even trying to start on the pond itself and the giant root growth of the Lilly type thing that has completely taken over the pond. As I start to move the plants around and get rid of stuff I disturb the frogs, from the big to this years small ones.

I keep going at it until finally I have cleared away a lot of the giant root and and then I fill up the pond with water from the rain water butt enabling me to skim the floating debris off with a pond net. That’s about it, I can do no more, apart from letting it settle again and for the frogs to get homey once more.

After a short break I bite the bullet and paint the back of the Shed. Since having a new storage shed and getting rid of the old ones I have the opportunity to paint the back of the shed I’ve not had the chance to paint for over thirty years. I set to it, filling some exposed joints and then painting the back panels. By the time I finish and put everything away I am out of spoons. I retreat to the sofa and start to draft the blog before tea and an evening of the Berlin Station. I take my night meds and go to bed, looking forward to collecting the new car tomorrow. I am doing a lot because I am looking over my shoulder to see where my cancer is, I am bothered that it is another four weeks till my next oncology review and the next set of bloods and PSA measure. Until then I can only guess at what is happening to me, so I keep busy.