EPISODE · Nov 22, 2009 · 1 MIN
The pond (51)
from The Swedish Terminator · host Gert Forsström
A plague is ravaging the summer house area where we have our weekend cottage. Everybody found ponds. My nearest neighbor devoted a couple of vacations to dig up a space for a pond. He´s got fish in it, fish that breed. I´d never do that, that is dig in the ground. But there are other solutions. On one side of the house there were a place with soil and grass on the rock. I thought there should be space enough for a pond under it. But it was hard work to get away all the soil and grass from the hole. Well, I filled the cavity with water and it didn´t leak. Perfect! We bought a “waterproof” fountain and some water hyacinths. Incredible! The pond has a depth of 40 cm. I asked myself if it was possible to have a fish or two in the pond. I didn´t want to buy fish, the pond is a too ground, and It´d be necessary to keep the fish in the bath during the winter. Then I got an idea. I could borrow a fish of my neighbour. The fish could be in my pond on vacation, on kind of summer camp. I proposed this to my neighbor, but he didn´t like it. He said the fish would feel lonely. Furthermore he pointed out that with such a ground depth, if it was warm, the fish would boil in the pond. And so it is, I´ve to be content with fountain and flowers. We use to sit down at the pond the afternoons with a drink and listen to the water that flows and the singing birds.
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A plague is ravaging the summer house area where we have our weekend cottage. Everybody found ponds. My nearest neighbor devoted a couple of vacations to dig up a space for a pond. He´s got fish in it, fish that breed. I´d never do that, that is dig in the ground. But there are other solutions. On one side of the house there were a place with soil and grass on the rock. I thought there should be space enough for a pond under it. But it was hard work to get away all the soil and grass from the hole. Well, I filled the cavity with water and it didn´t leak. Perfect! We bought a “waterproof” fountain and some water hyacinths. Incredible! The pond has a depth of 40 cm. I asked myself if it was possible to have a fish or two in the pond. I didn´t want to buy fish, the pond is a too ground, and It´d be necessary to keep the fish in the bath during the winter. Then I got an idea. I could borrow a fish of my neighbour. The fish could be in my pond on vacation, on kind of summer camp. I proposed this to my neighbor, but he didn´t like it. He said the fish would feel lonely. Furthermore he pointed out that with such a ground depth, if it was warm, the fish would boil in the pond. And so it is, I´ve to be content with fountain and flowers. We use to sit down at the pond the afternoons with a drink and listen to the water that flows and the singing birds.
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