I have spent the last 2-3 days building a rockery to disguise / integrate the filter housing into my pond.  It was important that that the new upgraded pond still looked pretty natural, so hence the rockery.  I mentioned in an earlier blog that I found a ‘new’ way to acquire my new fish and filtration equipment.  I also was able to acquire the rocks F.o.C. using the Freecycle site.  Here in very unrocky Surrey these cost a fortune if you need to buy them.  So a little innovation there then.

Rockeries should be planted up with alpine plants, which are tiny little flowers that are used to growing in very poor, gravelly soil.  Plants are obviously highly adaptive and adapted to their environment.  I would suggest that people in general, and we in particular, are similarly adapted.  Do you have the right people in the right place in your team?  What environments do you thrive in, and do your current circumstances match those conditions?  If not, what are you doing about that?  Seeking to learn new skills (adapting to your surroundings) or find a more nourishing environment for yourself?  I’d love to know…

“We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we’ve created ourselves? Who’s to blame, who’s to credit but us? Who can change it, anytime we wish, but us?”   Richard Bach