You "have it all covered" then technology and gravity take over

With our departure on holiday only a few hours away we had packed and repacked just about everything and covered everything that could go wrong - - - or so we thought

I had an e mail this morning telling me my iphone top up had been unsuccessful yesterday and the balance was almost zero.   A quick check on "the net" confirmed as i expected that the details for the payment were still pointing at a credit card which had been cancelled a couple of weeks ago.

Putting in the details of the new card took a short while then i hit the button for "top up now" - - - "Declined" popped up onto the screen - - - I don't need this on the day we are going on holiday I thought reaching for my debit card.  2 minutes later it was also "Declined" - - -

To cut a long story short the old credit card refusal stopped the new card and after talking to the card people they released it

The debit card was stopped because they thought there might have been a couple of dodgy transactions but once again after talking to them that to was released.  Once these "challenges" were resolved I thought surely nothing else is going to go wrong.! - - -

Wandering into the garden to top up the bird feeders and feed the fish i noticed the pond looked a little less clear than it did yesterday and the fish were all in the shallow bit.
It turns out that a huge piece of Lakeland slate we had as part of a waterfall had dropped into the 4ft deep end of the pond.

left hand end of the pond the green bit of slate on the top of the larger bit fell in the pond. 
As it sank it hit the pond filter hose and pump so hopefully didn't penetrate the pond liner.  I pulled out the pump to finds that it had been damaged and replaced it with a spare and here's what it looks like now.

I think it will remain like this and we will have to think of another way of camouflaging the filter box covered with that bit of pond liner once we retunr from holiday.

Hey ho fingers crossed nothing else determines to "challenge" us before we depart.

Enjoy the day

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Or this one just to see  the streaming birdfeeder cam