You just can't get away from 'em...

[Lynn White]

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

[jayuk]

Eye-rene if its a female

Eye-dward if its male!

[Lynn White]

Well I am not going to fish it out to find out which one it is lol!

[Val G]

What about

Eye-vor
or
Eye - leen

[Andrew MacLean]

How do you ascribe gender to a koi carp? with salmon it is easy. The males are tiny and the females are rather splendid looking. I just realized that the sentence i was going to continue to key in might have provoled a repitition of last saturday, so I;ll stop now.

[Lynn White]

Well Andrew..

its very difficult so I'll just choose the best sounding name!

I'm not even going to ask what you were going to write...

Lynn

Really.. I'm not

[Alison Fisher]

My eldest suggests Cyclops, and failing that then Bob (I'm not even going to try to figure 'Bob' out).

My hubbie and daughters were over your way today Lynn - watching Norwich beat Leicester.

[Lynn White]

Hehe Alison.. well Bob is my Dad's name as it happens...and he is a terrible jokester (as in terrible jokes) so I can bet my bottom dollar if I call it Bob he going to say "Eye ...eye .. eye.. whats all this then?"

Ohhh yes, that was quite close! Football I mean! Go much further East and you fall off the end of the world..!!

Lynn

[Alison Fisher]

Bob's my Dad's name as well.

Um, I'd rather fall off the edge of the world than watch football, but shush and don't tell anyone, okay?

[Lynn White]

Well now thats where he gets Bob from then lol... though I wont ask why he thinks of your dad for a one eyed goldfish... I'm thinkin gof giving him a crutch and a parrot (the fish I mean) and calling him Long John Silver,.., shiver me timbers!

And as for football... Well... strictly between you and me, I can 't stand it either - quickest thing to put me to sleep known to modern science.. but keep it quiet as I have a mad Trini in the house who is jubilant the Soca Warriors are down to play England. Do you realise they declared 2 whole public holidays when TnT qualified for the world cup? I think the whole population was drunk for the entire week!

All this for a game that... ahhhh I think I'd better stop there!

Lynn