Well, it has taken a year, but this weekend we finished digging out the pond. It needs a little more shaping which we will do when we get the pond liner, and it needs to be built up a little on one side to make the edge level, but that is mostly titivation, and it really just just needs the pond liner and water now.
Ben is in there for scale, and also to zap me with his MIB neuralyzer which he found when tidying his bedroom today.