Recovery

It's not so much I physically knackered after yesterday, its just I ache a bit ;) And as a consequence of such I've decided to take it a bit easier today and just plod along rather than gallivanting!

We go into Oxford today, for 2 reasons... one is to try and get those elusive rail bits for Phil after his failure yesterday to buy any, and secondly for me to get some last minute things before I head off on hols. I do very well, picking up a super winter coat in the Millets sale at a snip of the original price, I also get a nice top and also some girly indulgence bits in the form of Benefit lipscription which for you girlies out there is a "silky lip balm and buffering lip beads exfoliant" ... I personally just like the packaging, but then I am fickle about such things :)

However, Phil doesn't fair so well since the shop he'd planned to visit was closed for a stock taking exercise, and he now thinks someone is telling him that trains aren't for him after all... I'm sure he'll get the bits, we've just hit one of those bad luck and inconvenience streaks that most people get for months on end...

On the way home we stop at the fish shop, my puffer fish needs to go in a bigger and better tank since the one he is in at the moment is a plastic one with a curved front panel, which proves to be a bit difficult to clean because it scratches easily and the bend in the plastic makes it tricky to get standard aquarium cleaning equipment to do a good job. So we decide on a tank and get the various accessories to go with it. We also get a spotted puffer to keep my red eye company since apparently you can keep different puffers together provided they are well fed so they don't eat each other.

So, 120 quid lighter we go home, and after a bit of lunch we set up the new tank, but its gonna take a while to settle down me thinks. We also put the new puffer in with Sedgewick.... I've yet to decide if it was a wise move, though they seem to getting on OKish, I guess, it's hard to tell, they are both puffed up and at opposite ends of the tank giving evils.

Posted by Abi on the January 29, 2006 10:08 PM

sjon at February 1, 2006 11:15 AM