after a long abscense i reconnect with my pond man, who has arrived just in time to save my fish. a few months ago i noticed a loss of water and by a process of deduction concluded something was amiss in the stream. i had to turn the pump off to avoid loosing water which meant my fish would be in a still pond with very little flow except for rainfall. as it's been a very warm and sunny winter this what far from ideal yet unexpectedly the fish have survived much longer than i thought but have now reached a precarious stage. most of the area is now inaccessable by me, and overgrown. at the back of my mind i was thinking this may be it for the whole enterprise, i could just fill up the hole, plant some nice flowers and buy some beehives. that's when pond man shows up. we rework some electrical stuff from my bedroom to the outside area where we afix a new outdoor power source. then a general tidy up from all the massive ferns that have overgrown the front garden, hanging over the pond, their wild tendrils extending outwards and everywhere, blocking access over the small bridge. we actually have to pull out a number of them, really enormous one and then a reconstruction of the stream, and restarting the pump. all labourious, and all complex work but everything seems to fall into place and we manage to complete the task. happy fish. happy me. all i need is an outdoor setting where i can sit in the sun, weed and read. mission control has transformed itself totally inside and out, looking much more spacious and uncluttered in the main areas. there's still a lot of work to do but i hope to have everything finished by xmas. my next big job is cleaning windows, that should brighten it up a bit for all my indoor plant life. everything seems to be coming along reasonably well, there's a big dip in my fanances but i don't think it will last long, perhaps saturday will see everything rectify itself as i have incoming from an unexpected source. i don't want to do anything extravegent, move or buy property, in fact i just want to continue doing whatever i am doing which is training, working, reading. there is always at the back of my mind the horror of mandates.