Diverted

I spend the best part of this morning lazing around in bed, before I get up and start to do something useful!

First up is to give the house a clean, we've got visitors tomorrow so it might be nice for them not to walk into the current mess that we've managed to disperse all over the place since the last lot of visitors came. So the cleaning takes the best part of 3 hours (after I've made brunch which is some very nice scrambled eggs) and I'm knacked.

It's not long after I've sat down on the sofa to chill out for a while that Phil comes downstairs and suggests we go to the fish shop to pick up some algae eaters. It seems our Pleco is more intent on eating the bog wood we put in the tank and not focusing at the more important task in hand which is to clean the tank up and control the amount of algae which is growing, so we head off into Oxford to the Goldfish Bowl to see if they have any Loaches, which we know from experience love Algae and are pretty good house keepers.

Our plan is somewhat thwarted though since we hit a major traffic jam on the main road into Oxford, luckily though since we were in my car we just pulled up the SatNav and figured a route around the problem and got to the shop in plenty of time before it was due to close. It was nice not to go on the dual carriage way for a change and we got to see plenty of very pretty villages on our travels too, never know, one day we might be rich enough to live in one of them!

At the fish shop we find what we're looking for and also Phil decides to pick up another Red Tailed Black Shark to replace Oscar who we lost earlier in the year. So, with the loaches and RTBS bagged up and also some sea monkeys bagged up we head off home via a load more villages rather than the main arterial route and get home just fine and slightly more wiser of the back roads around here.

The new fish take well to the tank too, with the loaches immediately cleaning the tank and the RTBS already trying to assert his position in the fish heirachy (somewhere near the top is his current aim I think), and all the fish have a field day when we add in the sea monkeys for bit of a live bait treat (they don't last longer than 30 seconds with the Danioe's proving to be the quickest hunters).

We get chinese for tea tonight and after watching the X-Factor (what are the public thinking voting in Phillip, who can't sing at all!!!) and a bit more crap on the box it's time for bed.

Posted by Abi on the October 22, 2005 9:33 PM