We’re having cold weather now - frost, snow in the mountains, and rain, thank God!
The corner of our roof at the front of the house outside the office tends to overflow and I was despairing about the loss of the water in the recent drought we’ve had. So we got a plumber in to run a down pipe to the ground and another pipe under the paving into the garden, leading to the pond, and now when the roof overflows it waters our pond. The pipe has a tap on it attached to a second pipe so we can redirect the flow to the garden if the pond gets full - much better idea.
The poor pond was half empty but now looks almost full again. I felt sorry for the fish but there wasn’t a lot we could do - I would periodically catch fresh water in buckets to put into the pond but it would have taken a lot of buckets (and backache) to successfully fill it again.
 