Deconstruction

More of taking this bloody pond - lo stagno - apart. There was ice on it when I arrived, my siphoning hose was frozen. A thoroughly miserable time picking all the bloody broken tiles out of it and then hacking through the liner, that is really tough, to try and get the remnant waters to leave. Rain and snow forecast so now doubt it will bloody fill up on me as soon as my back is turned.

It is an important job but a totally negative one.

I staggered home up the back roads in the falling light.