Over The Past Few Weeks,

one of the orchids has been producing a flower spike,

a  big one,

 having measured it the stem is over 2 foot long, 

 there are 2 of them in fact, the orchid is known as a Pacific sun spots orchid, (Oncidium catatante), which we bought on a day out to McBean's orchid farm,

also looking like it was going to flower, 

 was one of Diana's succulents, 

 I have no idea of what the flower will look like,

 saying there was one, in fact two were flowering, we had a quiet day indoors, just watching a few television programs, 

 in the evening our meal,

 pate to start, 

 Diana mentioned the fox was waiting for food,

 so I threw a few peanuts for him,

much to the annoyance of the crow,

 he did not move from the lawn,

 and chased the crow and magpie off,

 next I tempted the fox with a couple of slices of ham, but quick as a flash the crow was down and grabbed them both!

 I then realised we had three foxes visiting the garden, the one that was here now, the one with the white on the tail,

 and this one, that had a bad case of mange,

 on to our main course, beef stew,

'Cheers!',

strawberries, meringue and cream for dessert,

 Diana decided the aquarium needed a haircut,

 so scissors out, 

 some of the ground cover plants had grown a little tall, so a trim was needed,

 whilst throwing the odd bits of plant away, I noticed the fox was back waiting for some peanuts,

 trim over, one of the red bee or crystal red shrimps was out, 

 time for a Jamaican coffee,

 with a Dominican rum to finish, 'Cheers!' we listened to music for the rest of the evening, I had bought a few CDs and added them to our play list, some of the ones I had bought were Holst, The Planets, a collection of classics and a 3 CD set SKA, which still seems to be popular today, as the midnight hour approached we were off to bed.