Last year I dug out a decent sized pond by hand, which filled up enough and I was able to dump in a few oxygenators before winter closed in.

It's not _finished_, mainly because I had to stop all heavy lifting of stones for the borders, but now spring's here I've added more plants and I'm getting exciting visitors 🥰

@sally that’s a great video! We saw one in our pond a few days ago but I only got a very blurry photo before it hid

@zetter I was amazed it actually focused, as previously I've had perfect reflections but blurry newt so I can empathise

Yay for newt ponds!