Out came pencil and paper and we set about sketching some ideas for ourselves of a pond that met our needs, finally deciding on a wooden block form pond of around 1.5 metres in diameter and 0.5 metres deep A few years ago we wanted to add a pond to the garden of our new house, but found it difficult, if not impossible, to find a company that would build a raised pond to suit our requirements During the summer of that year, 2003, several of our friends commented on how lovely they thought it looked, and asked where we had bought it from; all were shocked to find that we had actually made it