Arts
Fish & Ships
I’d like to begin by introducing you to a rather special lady. She was born in February 1957, the first of twelve sisters. A real local lass, she lived and worked from the Humber all [more…]
Fish
20th Century
Mystery Album, Part Eight
There are pleasures even the most adventurous of lives can deny a gentleman. Despite the tales of derring-do from his previous life more interesting (occasionally mildly exaggerated), there are places your author has rarely visited [more…]
Cooking
Thou shall have a Fishy, on a little Dishy
I’ve reached an age where recollecting the past is (mostly) a good thing, & happy memories of less hard times well spent, come flooding back. Childhood memories are cherished forever, and when we talk about [more…]
Arts
Gardening In A Pandemic (A Seaside Break)
Everything in the garden being as rosy as it could be for the time of year, and our glorious leaders deigning to allow us the limited freedom to widen our small horizons, we decided we [more…]
Fishing
Flies Undone
Ah the joys of British weather. There we were in Bakewell, on a bitter February day. My husband and I had gone across by bus and, when we’d left home, it had been a nice, [more…]
Arts
Postcard From Zakynthos
It isn’t just about swanning around the Lake District, visiting friends in Devon, Air B&B’ing to Barcelona, holidaying on the West coast of Scotland or nipping down to Essex for a couple of beers. There [more…]
Animals
Fish and their Chips
You’ve seen the creation of the Aquarium, introduction of the fish and corals and watched it settle in. The set up took around three months from initial purchase, fit out, water conditioning and maturing to [more…]
Animals
Aquarium Building Continued
In previous episodes I’ve talked about starting a project to keep Marine tropical fish and corals. Such an endeavour is not to be taken lightly or if you are short of cash! With the tank [more…]
Animals
Building the Aquarium
In the last piece I got to the point of having bought a fishtank. Bloody massive thing, weighing in at about 150kg when empty (it took four blokes to lift it out of the house [more…]