Before I Start On Today's Post,

here is a short video of our trip to the Isle of Sheppey,

it was a glorious day, and back to today, Lee called round in the morning, armed with a saw or two, in no time at all the doors upstairs in the 'manattic' had been trimmed to allow them to open once the carpet has been fitted, 

over the past few weeks I have been buying odds and sends for our small marine aquarium, 

I had picked up the glass condensation tray, last week from Osborn Glass, in Norwood, who had made a great job of cutting two half holes in it, 

 one at the front to make it easy to feed the fish and remove the condensation glass for maintenance,

and one at the rear for the protein skimmer, great job done on the glass,  

 so time to fill it, RO pre-salted water put in, next Carib Sea coral sand added,this has all of the usul bacteria in and around it, so unlike days of old the aquarium is virtually matured from day one,

 I also added a Poly-filter, to help with water purity,

  Ta-Da! yes I know it looks a mess, but this is how it is supposed to look,

 I adjusted the light timers so that they are now working, 

next stop to Kwik fit, the log book for the car had finally arrived so new number plates for the car, then to Kingfisheries in Croydon Road Beckenham, where the ever helpful staff supplied everything for the aquarium,

 this is the shops marine invertebrate aquarium,

 with all manner of sea life in it,

 hopefully some of these will still be here when it comes to stocking the aquarium,

 Graham loaded a plastic bag with some rocks for the aquarium, which I placed in the tank, 

 then time for our evening meal,

 advarcaro prawns for our starter,

 a quick look at the aquarium, which after a few hours the filter system had helped to clear, 

 on to our main course, a half of the steak pie we had bought when we were in Sittingbourne,

 'Cheers!',

 and for dessert a chocolate cake,

 with a touch of cream rounded off the meal nicly, after listening to music for a couple of hours, we watched a couple more from Game of Thrones for the rest of the evening,

a last look at the aquarium, the water now crystal clear, well it will be tomorrow! and with that we were off to bed.