Diana Was At Work,

so I had a quiet day, 

and decided to make part 9 of a visit I made many years ago to an aquatic trades show in Singapore, in this video I looked at the 1^st Singapore International Betta Competition, I should say that the term Betta is a part of the Latin name of the Siamese fighting fish, (Betta splendens), in the video there are all manner of different classes, some of the fish with smaller fins are females, which normally have little colour, but breeders are producing strains that are highly coloured, also the males which have much larger fins and stronger colours have different effects to their fins some called comb tails, in some of the aquariums you can see small bubbles on the surface of the water, this is a bubble nest that the male is forming, when he sees a female and is in breeding condition, he will entice the female under the nest and squeeze eggs out of her which he fertilizes and then attaches to the bubble nest that he guards, until the fry hatch, also worthy of note is that Siamese fighting fish are anabantids, meaning that they breathe air from the surface of the water, keep them submerged for too long and they will literally drown! after my evening meal a Giant Lobster Hunters followed by a Outback Opal Hunters before a film,

Spenser Confidential, if you like the alleged 'Bad Guy', proving that he was not a bad guy after all, this is the one for you,

 

I followed that with The Forgotten Battle, as war films go this was one of the better ones, as far as realism is concerned, the film is about the Battle of the Scheldt, in World War II there were a series of military operations led by the First Canadian Army, with Canadian, Polish and British units attached, to open up the shipping route to Antwerp so that its port could be used to supply the Allies in north-west, although the story is told through the perspective of 3 different people, as war films go I have to say it was very good, during the film Diana arrived home, so feet up for a coffee and a chat, and with the end of that we were off to bed.