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Ray and Carol love entertaining and have a marquee
permanently set up just behind their house complete
with a huge gas barbecue, just as well it was a lunch
stop where our visitors could enjoy their sandwiches,
otherwise we wouldn’t have been going anywhere else,
I’ve been to their barbecues before!

Again, lots of potted plants surrounded their raised
informal pond which is capped with grey bricks and has
a capacity of 5,200 gallons. Water feeds from 2 bottom
drains to a large brick-built 4 chamber filter which
delivers water back to the pond via a venturi,
something you don’t see much of nowadays, but very
popular in the 1980s. I noticed one of Mick Preston’s
Kohaku he spawned five years ago and the Beni was
I noticed one of Mick
Preston’s Kohaku he still looking good. All around there were Bonsai and
spawned five years other interesting plants and ornaments.
ago and the Beni was
still looking good. All too soon it was time to leave to visit Manny and
Janice Cefai at Welling.

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