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The last stop of the day was to Ray and Carol Moore’s
home in Sidcup – they love entertaining and have a
marquee permanently set up just behind their house
complete with a huge gas barbecue where Ray was
busy cooking. It is always a treat, I’ve been to their
BBQ’s before! We all sat down to a delicious spread of
chicken, burgers, pork ribs, salad, new potatoes – the
list goes on. I followed this up with strawberries and
cream, but there were other desserts there too.

Right:
Our visitors viewed Ray and
Carol’s 5,200 gallon pond,
which is an informal raised
pond neatly capped with
grey bricks surrounded by
potted plants.
Manny’s 4,000 gallon I have visited them and seen their pond develop over
rectangular pond is slightly the years – what a super efficient pond! It is a formal Below:
raised and surrounded by We stopped Ray cooking
numerous plants in pots rectangular style pond, slightly raised enough to make the BBQ for a moment, to
including Hostas and Acers. a comfortable seat and enjoy ice creams and beers capture the Master chef
in a photo.
while we viewed their pond and Koi. I particularly liked
a very nice Sanke Manny bought years ago, and that
I’d seen on my last visit. There were some very nice
clean Koi in his pond, some of them he’d had for years,
all looking healthy. Above the pond was a pergola and
all around there were plants in pots, Hostas, Acers – it
I WAS REALLY looked fantastic. At one end of the pond was a shower,
here, Manny had built a tray where water plants could
IMPRESSED flourish in the nitrates.
WITH THE Last time I visited Manny I was really impressed with
the neatness of his filtration system which was housed
NEATNESS below ground under decking, and you gained access
down a few steps. Manny built the pond himself which
OF MANNY’S is block-built with a fibreglass finish and has a capacity
FILTRATION of 4,000 gallons. I was impressed with the neatness of
all the pipework, what a great job.
SYSTEM Manny has two bottom drains which delivers water to a

drum filter and fluid bed (previously he had a sieve and
bead filter) before returning water back to the pond via
the shower and low level return to introduce a current.
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