And then there were two...

You may remember some time back that I mentioned our fish. Well, one of them died some time back, which was quite sad and it had appeared to have been bullied by the other three fish. Wouldn't you know it, now another has died of a similar fate! And not only that, but when we found it dead, it's tail was missing - ugh! Even fish canibalism makes me squeamish.

So now it's a battle between the remaining two fish, both of similar size. I must say that now I know what they get up to when we're not around, I'm not all that keen on getting many more fish, their calculated coldness to consistently bully another fish to death and then eat it's remains doesn't exactly float my boat. UGH!

And we thought fish were such nice simple creatures.

Bad Habits

I'm happy for you to disagree but in my opinion drinking beer could be classified as a bad habit (no offence Dad!). But I suppose perhaps you just need to start early enough to get the taste of it. I was flicking through some photos on the computer today and came across this very cute one of my goddaughter Jemima. I'm thinking that she will probably be a big beer drinker when she gets older! It's a Boag's draft for those of you who are interested. Maybe she could become a Boag's tester reserve?

Greenthumb

Actually, I've never been much of a greenthumb myself but now that we're moving out I figure the small courtyard area we actually have should be kind of tidy! So on holidays a couple of weeks ago I was out there with the weed spray and went CRAZY! Hmmm, not sure if that's really called "gardening" more like "weedocide" (like genocide but with weeds). So this weekend has been the weed killing aftermath. I've uprooted all the weeds along the path, the paved area, the rocks and the soil area and while I did kind of kill the few plants that once lived there, I'm hoping that the weeds won't come back too strong before we move out so that my greenthumb days can begin in our new place that actually has a nice garden. In fact, I've already got a Japanese Maple tree all ready to plant when we arrive. (If you go to the picture a few blogs back, I want to put it near where that bushy thing is near the window on the right.)
A successful weekend had by all - except for the weeds (and the snails - I have it in for them too!).

Cricket

For those of you about to tune out because even the word cricket puts you to sleep - WAKE UP! Tom's parents recently returned from a trip to Europe that included a trip to the famous cricket ground of Lords in London and brought me back a tea towel that generously explained the rules of cricket - for those uninitiated, like me, I thought it would be helpful to share the tea towel's words of wisdom...