was that it had developed this rather unsightly algae,
so out with the bucket and syphon,
algae and some of the coral sand removed,
I had already washed some sand which I then added, the box fish having a look at the new substrate,
I made a short video of the aquarium just as I feed them, unfortunately the camera records a different light spectrum than we see, hence not the colors that we expect,
so here is a photograph of the aquarium, all looking bright as it should,
for my evening meal a sherry,
before a salmon salad,
with a glass of wine or three, just as I was about to begin, Diana arrived home,
so noodles for her,
'Cheers!',
and for dessert two treats, firstly a creme brulee,
followed by an excellent Jamaican coffee,
by now it was late, so time for just one film, Ex_Machina, which we both enjoyed whilst snacking on some roasted chestnuts, and with the end of the film we were off to bed.
starting with a clean of the protein skimmer, and then the insides of the glass, I then had some really good news, a few months ago I started getting a pain in my left upper leg, eventually bad enough that it woke me up at night, so a few days ago I went to the doctors, where I was given an examination and with a printed out form told to to go straight away to the local hospital to have my upper leg X-rayed and a number of blood samples taken, results in 10 days, to say I was worried was an understatement, but 3 days later, today, I had a call form the doctor, nothing untoward was found, it seems that a number of nerves have decided for no apparent reason to make themselves felt, the x-rays and blood work showed no abnormalities, thank heavens for that! I have a rub jelly that hopefully will take care of the ache,
so to celebrate it was off to the local supermarket,
where I stocked up with,
several boxes of wine,
in the evening it was time for a read,
and a glass of sherry,
for tonight's meal, a turkey salad,
'Cheers!',
I then took a couple of photographs of the box fish, who has settled down really well, looking at me,
and side view,
and here he is waiting for a feed,
between the regal tang and the flame angel,
I continued reading Unlikely Stories, Mostly, but I have to admit I got a bit bogged down with Logopandocy, for a thesis of Alasdair Gray's work here is one by Bruce Graham Charlton MBBS, I decided to take a break from Alasdair Gray, and started another short story which I will make a separate post about, just after midnight Diana called to say she was on the bus home, so off to the bus stop, and in no time we were back home, where I gave her the good news about myself from the doctor, we had a quick nightcap and then for us we were off to bed.
and there was a photobooth in Beckenham, also I was nearly out of boxed wine, so we would go to the photobooth and do our weekly shopping in the only place that sells 3 liter boxes of wine in Beckenham, Lidl, so photographs done, shopping almost completed, the wines and spirits just by the check out, and you know what I am going to say, no boxes of red wine, so bottles it is then, which is such a huge waste of resources, one cardboard box and liner to fold flat and dispose of, as opposed to 3 or 4 glass bottles, making the same volume as a 3 liter box, unlike Thailand where wine can be bought in 3, 5, 10, 12 or 15 liter boxes, the bigger boxes for restaurant house wines, here in the UK boxes seem to be all 2.25 liter boxes, with the exception of Lidl who have 3 litre boxes, or if you have a card Costco that have 5 liter boxes,
so Diana was off to work, as I and the bottles in the bags clanked,
back to the bus stop for home, I spent the afternoon on the computer, I had a message that my Google space was almost used up, and if I did not buy more space I would not be able to send or receive emails, so I spent the afternoon deleting hundreds of old emails,
in the evening time for a sherry,
for my starter a prawn cocktail,
next a wine,
for my main course I had a selection of Italian cold cuts and biscuits, to keep in the Italian theme what better than a selection of Italian music?
so what better than this 6 DC box set, I hummed along to songs like ths,
Zucchero E Pepe by Bruno Rosettani and Trio Aurora,
I had so many books to choose to read, I decided on this one by Alasdair Gray,
as just recently he passed away aged 85, the book was titled, Unlikely Stories, Mostly, I read several of the stores over the course of the evening, some short, just 5 lines, two that stick in my mind, The Comedy of the White Dog, which was far from a comedy and The Great Bear Cult, a look into the past,
so everything was A-OK, just a shame that Diana was at work,
but when she called just before midnight I walked her back from the bus stop, at home she said hello to our new house guest,
I am hoping to keep him well feed so he does not bother the soft corals, as it happens he beat the clownfish to a mysis shrimp I put in for food,
as he grows over the next year or so it will be back to the shop as he will eventually outgrow the aquarium, Diana just loves him already, well he is just so cute at barely an inch long, we watched one from Have I Got News For You, and for us we were then off to bed.
