You just can't get away from 'em...
Posted: Sat 01 Apr 2006 8:58 pm
Today in Yarmouth has been a lovely spring day. I moved into my house late last year and it has a small but nce raised pond, stocked with a variety of goldfish.
Years ago I had a big koi pond and I have been toying with the idea of maybe getting a few more for the pond... this, you must realise, is entirely non-sensical as my current pond is way too small but I allow myself to dream.
So I set off in search of a koi pond establishment which I never actually found. I did find the road it was supposed to be on but there was no sign anywhre directing you to it... which is sort of typical Norfolk... you are supposed to KNOW these things!!
So I gave up and ended up on a magical mystery tour, followed signs for a "Rose Centre" which actually led to an aquatic centre... (as I said, this be Norfolk!). I bought a pond pump and asked if there were nay fish to look at. I was shown to some holding tanks where there were very many skittish small koi. AGGGH! Deep breath... walked straight past them and decided instead on a couple of goldfish, a white one and a shubunkin (blue coloured with black speckles). These would contrast with the mainly red ones I already had in the pond.
I placed the bag with the fish lovingly on the passenger seat side floor and set off home. BIG mistake. The guy had filled it with oxygen and it bounced around like a basket ball every time I accelerated or went round a corner. I was nervous wreck when I got home and hoped the fish had survived with nerves intact! I left them floating on the pond for a while for the temperatures to equalise....and then gently turned them out ...
... only to discover that the white fish had only one eye! Looked like he had lost the other to injury a while back. Well! I had to laugh! Trust an optom to get a one eyed fish!
So if anyone has any name suggestions?
Lynn
Years ago I had a big koi pond and I have been toying with the idea of maybe getting a few more for the pond... this, you must realise, is entirely non-sensical as my current pond is way too small but I allow myself to dream.
So I set off in search of a koi pond establishment which I never actually found. I did find the road it was supposed to be on but there was no sign anywhre directing you to it... which is sort of typical Norfolk... you are supposed to KNOW these things!!
So I gave up and ended up on a magical mystery tour, followed signs for a "Rose Centre" which actually led to an aquatic centre... (as I said, this be Norfolk!). I bought a pond pump and asked if there were nay fish to look at. I was shown to some holding tanks where there were very many skittish small koi. AGGGH! Deep breath... walked straight past them and decided instead on a couple of goldfish, a white one and a shubunkin (blue coloured with black speckles). These would contrast with the mainly red ones I already had in the pond.
I placed the bag with the fish lovingly on the passenger seat side floor and set off home. BIG mistake. The guy had filled it with oxygen and it bounced around like a basket ball every time I accelerated or went round a corner. I was nervous wreck when I got home and hoped the fish had survived with nerves intact! I left them floating on the pond for a while for the temperatures to equalise....and then gently turned them out ...
... only to discover that the white fish had only one eye! Looked like he had lost the other to injury a while back. Well! I had to laugh! Trust an optom to get a one eyed fish!
So if anyone has any name suggestions?
Lynn
