For a few years until we had built our pool, we only had a paddling pool to keep cool in during the summer. I say paddling pools, this one is 8 foot diameter and about 3 foot high, it has an inflatable ring around the top and as the pool fills with water, so it rises up. It has been in the shed for about 18 months now so we decided to put it to a better use storing water for the vegetables on the top terrace as there was no storage there. Montenegro's main water deposit is still overflowing and the water is being sent down to the river so today seemed a good day to use some of that to fill the pool. We levelled the ground, padded it with empty manure sacks and 2 old lilos which have punctured, filled it and then fenced it off to keep animals away. I am more concerned that they might puncture it with claws trying to get a drink than anything else! Then we covered it with an old olive net to keep the frogs and leaves out. The fencing, the olive net and the sticks for support were all old things from the shed, similarly the manure sacks can't be used for anything else (too smelly!) and the lilos were just waiting to be found a use for.
The broad beans are in full flower now, this is actually the second planting, put in on Oct 20th - notice another water tank behind them - there is some sort of storage on each terrace but this is a proper tank not a kids pool! Can't remember now why we bought it, but it is being put to a good use.
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