Secret Tunnel

I suppose it behoves a boardgame-friendly B&B to have a secret tunnel in one corner.  This one's under the Conservatory, so I guess we should look under the Lounge for the other end...

Spent most of the day either in the loft fitting a makeshift lid to the water tank, followed by drilling drainage holes in the bottom of the fishpond.  No, this is not normal for a fishpond, but then it's not normal to have fishponds indoors.

And it is unsurprising to have damp in the other side of the wall from an indoor fishpond...

We've got a cactus specialist coming tomorrow with a van load of plants and we're converting the 'pond' to a cactus bed over the next few days.  Hence the need for rather more drainage, even more than the foot or so of hardcore and gravel will endow.

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As to the real purpose of the 'tunnel' - it's either the vestige of a passageway that got re-engineered when the Victorians added the assorted Gothic bits on the front of the house, or it's a rather clever Georgian 'cavity wall' keeping the worst of the damp from the cellar, at which it is quite effective.