Divine Intervention ...

Day Two....of the pond ..

Busy at work....the pond is starting to take shape ...

Banking the sides up, the digger is on, what will be an island when finished ...

Day two of the pond creation, yesterday as you know the plans to create a wildlife pond here started...

The plan is to dig out the pond then break into the water pipe that hopefully will supply the pond with fresh running water...I have a large what looks like a drainage pipe which runs with water all year round at the edge of the field, this runs into a burn at the bottom of the field.

So what I needed to do was to locate where the pipe runs across the field in order that we could avoid breaking it to soon and flooding the semi dug pond.

Now, I'm not a professional 'water diviner' however I have dabbled in this in the past, so I decided to see if I could follow the pipe across the field and put marker points where I thought the pipe was....so off I set. I was occupied for over an hour....marking out a route that I believe is going to be the supply pipe....up to now, the digger driver has managed to avoid it and so far so good.....just goes to show....that the technique works...after marking out the underground water pipe, I set off across the brow of the hill, just to make sure there was no running water crossing the proposed pond site...I had walked about 50ft and the rods that I use....(two short lengths of fencing wire) nothing to technical in that..began to move towards each other...I was thinking...we are getting near to some water.....but they did not cross...I carried on walking right round the brow of the hill.....nothing there...so I thought that there was no running water here....I then went back to see the driver to report, my findings....

As I got near, he said.....'I've found a dry drain', that he had dug up....'Did you find that then '

I said.......actually 'Yes' ....it was in exactly the place that he had been digging going diagonally across the field.....but it was dry....no running water....and that's why the 'rods' didn't cross....

I thought to myself...........how clever was that..and it just proved to me more that ..there really is something....in this 'Water Divining'

I will keep you posted....if we burst a pipe....before we intend to....but for the moment...things are making good progress.....