Circle of Life

Well, after the sad demise of Dom Froggy on Friday, lo and behold nature showed that life and death are really two sides of the same coin, with the birth of 9 new little fishies on Monday! They are quick little blighters, so I only managed to capture a couple, and you will need to look closely!




In other news, my baby (X) has been to the orthodontist today and will be getting braces next week! At the grand old (or not!!) age of 10. Apparently they don't like to do it that early because its a big responsibility and then a lot of years to wear retainers afterwards, but the orthodontist thought she was older than she was, and had offered them to her before he realised. So, despite half an hour of anxiety on the way about braces, she then was desperate for them straight away!


Finally, more changes afoot, as a new moty car is planned for me! Watch this space...!

RIP Dom Froggy

Alas, little froggy Dom has been a bit off colour the last few days, and finally admitted defeat this evening. RIP little Dom Froggy :-(

New additions

New fishies for Christmas - welcome to Milly, Molly and Mandy!

Much more exciting though.... new froggies for me!!!!! They are African Dwarf frogs, Dick and Dom, and they are just so lovely - I could literally watch them all day.

(Dom's on the left, Dick's on the right!)

Good and Bad Friday

Yesterday, nagged by X, I filled in a competition slip for something or other that Magnum are promoting whilst in Tesco. This resulted in being allowed to pick an instant win ticket for a Ipod shuffle stylee Mp3 player - and lo and behold, we won!

Today, my baby fishy, which I have lovingly watched for the past nine days, appears to be no more.

I guess that's karma!

Fingers crossed

A while ago I got myself a new aquarium so that my poor lonely goldfish, Mr Hubbles would have a nice home with a filter etc. We also got him a new goldfish friend, Fish 1 (named by Y!) and 2 little minnow friends (Lightening and Houdini).

All was well for a few weeks but then Mr Hubbles began to display some signs of illness, (which is ironic as he was living in a really rubbish tank before!), and we had to remove him from the tank. A few days later Fish 1 also began to get poorly and despite the purchase of a seperate tank and filter, neither of them survived.


Since then the minnows seem to have thrived. They are both happy and healthy (to my knowledge) and we have held off getting any additions until I am sure the tank is safe, when I intend to get some aquatic miniature frogs to join them.

However, this morning I thought Houdini seemed to be acting a little strange, though as he is a hider most of the time it is hard to tell. So, after feeding them their breakfast I sat down to watch them for a while, just to check. And what did I find...? A tiny, teeny, miniature, ghostly little minnow! A baby!! He is swimming around quite freely, and is perfect, although only about 4mm long and 1mm high!! We haven't named him as I'm aware that babies don't survive easily and I'm not prepared to take any special measures. Nature will do her thing and take her course and he will survive or not. That said he is still there this evening, and it is very exciting! So fingers crossed that the tiniest possible addition to our family might just survive!

Oh its small pleasures for me these days :-)

New additions

Finally got round to replacing Spongebob and Jim today. Meet Bubble and Dave!