The Orchid,

with the large flower spike,

 was beginning to open

  and nice it looked too, 

 with lots more buds still to open,

 breakfast over it was time to go shopping, we parked in the cinema car park, and again almost had the whole park to ourselves,

 I joined the queue to go into the bank, which is opposite the cinema

 Diana went a few shops along to go into Tesco,

 next stop, to Kingfisheries Aquarium, our local tropical fish shop, it is at 308, Croydon Road Beckenham, BR3 4HR, telephone number 0208 6503716, they are open 11.00 – 4.00  Monday to Saturday, as a guide it is on the opposite corner that the BP petrol station in Croydon Road is on, 

for us we needed some RO water for the aquarium,

opps! spilt some!

looking at the rear of the shop in the outdoor cold water section,

I noticed,

that they had a nice selection of water lilies in stock,

also they had some some sterlets, (Acipenser rutheneus), it is the commonest of the sturgeons, unlike other sturgeons, this one spends all of its life in freshwater,

 in the afternoon after a few quiz shows, time for our evening meal,

 for our starter, mussels in a garlic sauce,

 'Cheers!',

 before our main course I took a photograph of the aquarium, if you look really closely you might see one or two red shrimps,  

 as I was doing that I noticed the fox waiting for his peanuts,

 he grabbed a few,

and disappeared,

 on to our main course, 

we had a lamb shank each,

 another 'Cheers!', as Diana was putting the plates in the kitchen she mentioned the fox was back,  

 and there he was, patiently waiting and looking up at our window, more nuts for him, 

for dessert Diana's favorite, sticky toffee pudding with fresh cream and ice cream, delicious! we listened to some music then we watched the television, one each from Sherlock Holmes, Poirot, and New Tricks, all of which brought us up to midnight when for us we were off to bed.