Up Early And Out,

to drop the car off, 

and have breakfast here, the Toby Carvery at Eden Park,

I dropped off the car here at Eden Park Motorist Centre, 

I arrived just as they opened up, keys dropped off, 

so over the road for a help yourself,

all you can eat breakfast buffet, 

2 eggs, 2 bacon, 2 sausages, mushrooms and beans,

I was still a tad hungry so up again for the same, except the mushrooms, the bill including unlimited coffee or tea £8,49, after which I picked up the car, it had passed its MOT with colours flying, £54.00 later and I was on my way home, but just as I entered the building onside in the front garden,

just past the car park are some pine trees, and I could hear a woodpecker, 

and there he was,

tapping away, he was the Great spotted woodpecker, (Dendrocopos major), I had often heard them but never seen one this close, after Diana left for work, 

in the afternoon I decided to make part 4 of a trade trip I made to Singapore for the aquatic trade, the first stall I looked at gave the aquarium inhabitants a chance to watch television! On the stall there were a number of protein skimmers for aquarist that keep marine fish and invertebrates, next a look at a stall from a French company Rena, that amongst other things makes air pumps, on to American Pharmaceuticals, but in a shock move, Mars Fishcare, owners of Rena, Aquarian and API, have announced that they will be pulling out of aquarium production and sales, next a product that is becoming increasingly popular over the years, mini or desk top aquariums, and of course you need to feed your guests, Hikari is a huge brand in the fish food market, the fish are brought to us normally in plastic bags but these boxes are considered to be the way forward as they are easier to fit into boxes and keep more fish for longer given the space they take up, one questionable thing on display here are the fish all artificially coloured by hand, many shops like Kingfisheries do not import these as it is considered cruel to put the fish through this process, after finishing the video I watched Extreme Fishing with Robson Green: At the Ends of the Earth, this time Russia, by now it was time for my evening meal, it appears that BattleBots has now finished being shown so I decided on a film,

so The Abyss it was, a disaster movie, a huge mining complex is collapsing the ground above it, and on the ground there is a town, quite enjoyable as there are a number of relationships all going on at the same time,

next Dark Waters, a film of the true story of corporate attorney Robert Bilott, a new partner at a prestigious law firm, is visited by one of his grandmother's neighbours from West Virginia. Angry farmer Wilbur O. Tennant asks him to sue chemical multinational DuPont, during and at the end of the film actual people that had been maimed and others that appeared in the story are featured, for the true story that the film is based on, have a look here, after which Diana retuned home from work so it was a coffee and a chat before we were off to bed.