David's "They know it's Thursday" Check

 A pleasant sunny evening and temperature. Nice new pedestrian gate coming off the canal path into the central path toward Ashley Meadow. Let's hope the vandals don't trash this too!

Ashley Meadow.
Yep, they know it's Thursday evening. Right up the north eastern end. Both appeared well. Pump and fence all working OK.

Western Fen.
The message hadn't got through on timing. One was actually at the pump, trying to get water out. The other two were a bit further up the eastern side, doing what the Whites do. All seemed OK, although the one by the pump had a lot of flies on him. We appreciated less of a safari through the fen, to find them today.

The pump was flowing some water, but the boy was having to repeatedly push it to get much up to suck out of the reservoir. I moved the pipe a bit and gave it about 8 full pumps and it seemed to flow a bit more, before he had another go. Quite a bit of air in it, although the other end of the pipe did seem to be in the water.

Do these things have non-return valves on them at the reservoir end of pipe??

My larger shirt has not appeared......