drum roll........IT FLOATS!!!!!!!!

Yesterday I strapped the two pontoons to the top of my van, threw loads of scrap timber and extra bottles in the back and went off to meet my fellow wombles down at the pond.

Steve was the first to meet me down there and we soon had the raft assembled along with some improvised seating of celotex slabs (thanks to my outhouse roof coming down the other week) and decided to give it a quick float while we waited for the others to turn up.

It worked!!!  We had a little paddle around the pond and Steve even did a little dance to see how stable it was.
But...we were still two wombles short.
Soon Laurence turned up,  but unfortunately Paul couldn't make it. We needed to see if it would take the weight of 4 wombles!! We soon solved the problem by roping in offspring, Paul was replaced by 3 kids and a dog!!!

With all the extra weight we did get a little lower in the water so added a few more bottles to the bottom just to be on the safe side.
All in all, a very productive morning....and loads of fun too!!!