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[alp]

@Logan Try the cranberry juice as it can harm you. Talk about which, I had to peel the pomegranate so the I drink the juice .. Pomegranate is like pineapple, a bit of a nightmare to prepare.

 

[alp]

Very grey today with a chill in the air... Need to do shopping 12 to 21c A very pleasant day. Lots to do

 

[Logan]

@alp thanks, yes i will. Googled it and it's got lots of other benefits.
Last day of physio this afternoon, next week i can do the Gardening instead. Might do some weeding in a while.

 

[MaryMary]

Good morning to all: @MaryMary I used to keep guppies, skeleton fish and neon fish.. It's nice that you feed them food other than fakes.

Yes, fake food sounds very bad for fish!! (A typo, I know, but it made me laugh!! .)
I must look up skeleton fish - they sound very cool!!

Wonder if the worms should be too cold.

IF I remember correctly, they will not survive at temperatures less than 40F, or 4C.

@Logan Try the cranberry juice as it can harm you.

I hope you mean "can't" harm you...

Info on cranberry juice:
http://www.webmd.com/women/news/20100823/cranberry-juice-fights-urinary-tract-infection-quickly





Now, in my time, it is 2:50 in the morning and I must be up in 5 hours.

Good night to all, and throw another log on the fire, will ya; you're in charge, night shift, out!!

 

[alp]

@MaryMary Hahaha! I know FLAKES and I often typed slugs as sluts, threee (my shorthand teacher said it was my mental aberration!)

Sleep well, @MaryMary

Went to add something to the wormery and will add more wet newspaper. Just emptied 4 flexitubs of water.

 

[Zenj]

Morning all starting to get a lot cooler on a night now here talking of tropical fish I kept them over 20 years ago cichlids ,Rams Discus and blue acaras nice hobby ,alp never heard of skeleton fish are they the same as glass fish?

 

[alp]

@zenji Would love to see your fish. Skeleton fish is like a tiny fish with all the bones showing .. hehe! Quite fun. I kept them for years. But I didn't like the whiff of smell when I came home from outside, so I decided to get rid of them. Last week, saw a much smaller one with a display shelf being given away.. well, as usual, I was too LATE!

Yes, I think glass fish is the same, but those that I saw were a big slenderer. By the way, have you bought the nomocharis? I would love to get some now that my meconopsis (3 of them) are still surviving. Mummy takes water over to the only spot to make sure my babies are moist and happy. Hopefully, millions of hellebores will come out of that spot. or the ants have had them already.. I'm tired of putting them out in pots and forgetting about them ... The pots either were full of dry compost or moss with fern .. I actually have a fern growing in nursery area! Self-seeded! Very pleased.

You only keep pond fish now,@Zenj ? That's a shame. Your grandkids would love to have fish as a hobby. If my fish tank hadn't been so big 3' 6" and 18 inches tall, I might still have kept them.

 

[Verdun]

Sunshine and blue skies.......peaceful and relaxing an hour ago at the beach. A couple of signs of autumn but amazing blue sea
Checked over a new build home yesterday......my niece will be moving in later this month and already I have been appointed gardener and plantsman. Minimalistic planting but a trachelospermum, early small flowered white clematis, a couple of camellias and honeysuckle are earmarked. Muggins here will be paying, of course

 

[Zenj]

Hi alp. Yes very tempted with the Nomocharis don't no weather to try the seeds or plants when they are available going on holiday shortly so will place a order when we get back, don't even keep fish in the pond as they eat the wildlife but the grandchildren like looking for frogs snails and all the other odd ball things in the pond ,there is a garden centre near us which they like going to as a big aquarium department as a massive indoor Koi open pool they sell bags of food for the kids to feed them some are over 2ft and that used to people the kids stroke them.

 

[Verdun]

Blimey! So hot. Need a break, a banana will do nicely

 

[Logan]

@Verdun

 

[Verdun]

Wot?

 

[Logan]

Just got back from the physio, I've been signed off.

 

[BigC]

Hope everything is OK with you @Logan with the meds etc..Been busy here decorating...Tomorrow hopefully I'll get to make the waterfall..I have all the ingredients...The only thing that can fall over now is the rhubarb leaves which I'm supposed to pick up in the morning...I want them as large as poss...fingers crossed

 

[Logan]

Thanks @BigC haven't been too bad until now, started aching again. Been drinking a lot of water. i hope you get your rhubarb leaves.