Off To The Bank,

I had a subscription to the club to pay,

 and as I do not have internet banking it was a walk to the bank, a grey day,

 as I made my way past the council Christmas tree,

 and church, 

 walking past the now renovated cinema,

 and memorial, into the bank,

 and I was on my way to Kingfisheries, in Croydon Road, Beckenham, Graham had called to tell me a new shipment of marine fish and invertebrates had arrived,

 and thought I might want to have a look,

 so I popped down and found the shop had a couple of clams, (Tridacnid/Tridacninae),

  amongst other invertebrates,

 in the invertebrate aquarium, 

I made my way home stopping at Waitrose to pick up a few items of shopping, then home and feet up, until Diana returned from her work, and she had a surprise when she did, a parcel had arrived for her,

 from a company called Coach,

 and nice it looked too,

 monogrammed as well, I guess it will be used very soon!

 after our evening meal, I popped out to the club to met up with Steve, no one in the tennis courts tonight,

in the club we chatted the night away, after saying goodbye it was home for a night cap, and then off to bed.

Diana Was Already On Her Way To Work,

as I feed the crows,

 and today the magpie,

 the one with the curled foot here again, beak full of peanuts,

 next stopdown to Kingfisheries, to return a water container I used to take water home for the aquarium,

 whilst there I had a look at the invertebrate aquarium thay have there, above a cluster of zoanthid polyps,

 some tubastraea, or sun corals as they are known with their tentacles not extended,

 one of the many species of pulse corals, Xenia,

 a large polyp stony coral, Euphyllia,

 another cluster of zoanthid polyps,

 this piece of rock with more than a few corals attached to it, if only I had a larger aquarium!

 after picking up my 2 months prescription, totally free of charge now that I am a OAP, (old aged pensioner), I made my way home, noticing that the Christmas tree in the garden of the Foxgrove Lodge had been taken down,

 that was my cue,

 as I walked past the cherry trees,

 that will hopefully be in flower in a few months time, I decided that I would disassemble our tree and take it upstairs, easier said than done! it refused to come apart in the three sections it arrived in, but eventually it did, then the really difficult bit, actually getting it upstairs, what a struggle, but eventually it was there for the next time we need it,

 I also decided to attach some of the orchid flower stems to longer flower supports,

 this one was still not a problem,

 but this one was, so I gave it a longer support,

 the same for this one, the flower stem now at 90° to the main stem,

 

 now all is well,

 another candidate for a long support, 

 this particular one just keeps flowering, which is nice,

 before,

 and after,

 perhaps the most successful orchid we have, if you count the number of flowers and flower stems it is throwing out,

 and nice the flowers are too,

 a couple of the smaller orchids,

 also needed a helping support,

 another really successful plant, it just keeps on flowering,

this one I bought in a bargain basement nursery on ebay, the bidding started at .99p, I put in my usually unsuccessful bid and won, the postage at £2.95 was more than my bid! it arrived with no flowers, but in just a few months it started to flower, and has not stopped, I was going to play with some photographs upstairs,

 but I noticed A Man For All Seasons was about to start, so I watched that instead, after Diana arrived home and our evening meal it was feet up for a few game shows, and one from Murdoch Mysteries,

we rounded the evening off with a couple from The Witcher, next for us, we were off to bed.