Sid's Blog

glad your fishes were ok,,,,, lets ban footballs lol

Definately!

Ok Ok Sid your pond is lovely and clear how did you get a straw bale into it? Footballs everywhere at present our garden also backs on to school playing field Jane works as a teaching assistant so I have to appear reasonable in her company - but when home alone...your water hyacinth will be lovely supposed to have a vanilla fragrance .Good luck to the little fishes ..oh go on then any names for them yet?

Ha ha ha - every day I go down the garden and expect to find it has all gone to pea-soup! I haven't done anything to keep the water clear tho - just two bunches of pond weed in there - can't be those can it? I think if I put a straw bale in there there would be no room for my little fishes :-D

Re names, my mother imaginatively suggested One and Two, then when I told her to be serious she suggested A and B then. Well, honestly.... Tut.

Maybe GoYers could suggest names for them? Bound to be better ones than my mum's ideas..... Splish and Splosh are already taken by my sister's fishes ;-)

nice pond! i like to recycle loads of stuff into my garden. but i haven't put fish in anything so far. noe you've got me thinking!!

Go for it, Sandra :-) This cistern tank was previously used as a water butt - it's designed to hold water, so I thought, why not? An ideal pond liner!

Given that they are swimming in a cistern how about ball and cock? To our transatlantic readers a ballcock is the mechanism which regulates water into a water tank (cistern)

Way to go Sid!! Looks lovely... may I suggest Orca and Willie! two famous whales! Good idea with the pond weed it's an oxygenator.. the fishies will also help keep your plants groomed as well and chomping down all those lovely larvae.....I bring my nymphaea in for the winter and I have three little fish left after losing all the rest, and they've spent the winter keeping the plants groomed and eating the algae... Algae won't kill anything so you don't have to be too worried about your fish should the water become a little green. Isn't nature wonderful? We just have to supply the elements and it ticks along amazingly.

Thanks for the suggestion, Bonkers. But what would people think?! x-D

Thanks Lori - good suggestions (and polite too - take note, Bonkers!) I went whale watching once off Vancouver Island and saw some orcas/killer whales - absolutely magnificent. Also visited the aqueriam in Vancouver and saw their whale - one of the saddest things I have ever seen - this magnificent creature just swimming in circles in the tiny pool. Can't understand their justification for keeping it there when there were wild whales people could see not far from shore. You have such wonderful wildlife in your country, Lori.

Polite? Well what is that thing called that regulates water into a cistern?- thank God you didnt use a bidet!Best behaviour I promise.

Ah you have a soft heart, Sid. Did you know that they closed the aquarium in Stanley Park? The whale was released off of Puget Sound in hopes he would reconnect with his pod... He was so used to people they were worried that he wouldn't be accepted by the wild whales.
No creature should be incarcerated...zoos give me the chills...but at least the powers that be in Van. got it right eventually. It's been a long time since but I seem to remember that the story did not have a happy ending.
Oh ...and perhaps Bonkers meant Sphere and RoosterPMSL......

Thanks Lori yes there was some form of innuendo but these things really are called that so sphere and rooster actually sounds pretty good now what you think Sid?

I'm now planning a bidet fountain - think it could be quite elegant squirting into the cistern tank - thanks for the inspiration Bonkers!!! (Or maybe I'm telling a cock and ball story...?)

I LOVE Sphere and Rooster - defo the best suggestions so far. Esp when i think of my family wondering where on earth I got those names from........ te he