I thought I’d have a day off work today.
The upcoming Bank Holiday is the only one that I’m not scheduled to be working
this year so I thought I’d make the most of it. Not needing to be up for work I
slept through till gone 7am this morning. I wish that happened more often.
I had a little look-see on-line; not
much had changed overnight.
I drove round to collect "My Boy
TM" and together we went to a friend of "er indoors
TM". This friend’s garden pond had developed a leak. They’d
decided that the leak was going to be too problematical to fix and had decided
to do away with their pond and had offered us the fish. We were told there was
about twenty pond fish…
We arrived, we set up buckets into which
to put the fish, the first fruit of my loin borrowed a pair of waders and got
in the pond with a net. I stood on the side of the pond and brandished a net
from the safety of dry land. After about forty minutes we seemed to have caught
all the fish that we were going to catch (along
with three frogs) so we said our goodbyes and brought the fish home. We set
up another bucket so’s we could have a look at what we’d acquired. There were
some rather pretty goldfish, tench (green
and golden), orfe, and several koi. We’d been told we’d be collecting
twenty fish; we counted forty-six into my pond, and "My Boy TM"
took a further eight to his pond.
Having started the day with one of the fruits
of my loin I then went on to see the other. "Daddy’s Little Angel TM"
and "Stormageddon - Bringer of Destruction TM" (and Sam) came with me to visit my mummy
and daddy. They were well; they fed us lunch. I say “lunch”; "Stormageddon - Bringer of Destruction TM"
just ate chocolate rolls.
We came home via Icklesham Koi, where I got
some jollop to sort the froth in the garden pond. We also went via Ham Street
garden centre for replacement water pumps for garden water features. They
didn’t have any so we went to Bybrook Barn. They had some… but where I thought
they were about fifteen quid each they were actually thirty quid each. I wanted
three; I bought one.
Once home I mucked out the pond filter and
applied the jollop. It seemed to do the trick. Apparently the froth is protein
gunge from the left-over food I’ve been feeding the fish. I should feed them
less.
I then disassembled one of the knacked
water features. Moving a couple of dustbins of stones to get to the pump took
some time and effort; but only took an hour. I was pleased to find that after a
bit of cleaning, the water pump sprung back in to life. Re-assembly didn’t take
more than half an hour, but once that job was done I gave up on my plans to
fart around with shingle. Instead I fed the pond fish. I was pleased to see
some of the new fish took some food.
"er indoors TM" came home and
boiled up a rather good bit of scoff. We scoffed it whilst watching stuff from
the SkyPlus box.
It was a shame I fell asleep half way
through, but there it is. Today was rather tiring for a day off…
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