We've has a heron hanging around a bit, lately. Our fingers are crossed that the new pond cover is working, and it does seem that way: no evidence of fish being taken, although it's hard to tell when they're being sluggish in the cold ( Read more... )

I thought I may as well get on with it, and emptied out the fish tank (finding Mr Fish's little fishy corpse lying at the bottom as I did so ( Read more... )

(Yuck, new DW beta update page is hideous. They've increased the font size and added acres of white space, presumably to make it easier to use on a mobile, so you now have to scroll and scroll and scroll. In what universe does anyone need a 1000-pixel-wide dropdown to distinguish between the names of their icons? I've slightly improved it by ( Read more... )

We seem to only have one indoor fish left, a three-ish-year-old male White Cloud swimming around on his own. What was the remaining female has been looking a bit sickly for a couple of weeks, which culminated in her spending a couple of days resting on the fake plant, a day lying on the bottom looking miserable, and then no subsequent sightings. ( Read more... )

Posting about the fish last night was obviously a mistake: I've just changed their water, and there's a very sad-looking Minnow alternating between flailing around on the surface of the water and hanging vertically in a corner of the tank ( Read more... )

Last Thursday - Country Life Christmas Show: overdose on orange and cinnamon scent, bought a few bits, thought "I could do that" about many bits, thought "I would do that" about slightly fewer ( Read more... )