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Alas, ice and lack of oxy­gen have got to the fish. There were four, then three, then one — now no more. RIP.

Down through the woods to Hay­burn Wyke — a favour­ite des­tin­a­tion. The ferns in the wood sur­pris­ingly live and green for Decem­ber — very dif­fer­ent from the dead bracken of the moors. Stream had formed a pool on the beach … Con­tinue read­ing →

Hansa’s veget­arian Indian (Gujar­ati) Res­taur­ant in North Street Leeds is really good. Cheap-ish, tasty, quick ser­vice. Only a couple of minutes walk bey­ond the Grand Theatre (via one of the most ped­es­trian hos­tile envir­on­ments ever nav­ig­ated — just wait for … Con­tinue read­ing →

There are four !   In spite of Rob’s con­fid­ence that there were none there I saw four, all together, the other day.  What sur­vi­v­ore !  Bet­ter start feed­ing them again.

In spite of the man who gut­ted the garden and cleaned out the pond say­ing “There’s no fish in there, mate,” there are !!! Three of the wee bog­gers. They obvi­ously gave him the slip.  Whether they will sur­vive in the … Con­tinue read­ing →

We had the pond cleared out.  “Watch out for the fish,” we said.  There were no fish.  Some­time in the autumn they must have given up their fishy souls to the great aquar­ium in the sky — or pos­sibly ended … Con­tinue read­ing →

Haven’t seen them since about end of Octo­ber — so either there are none or they will re-appear in the Spring.

Even though I know my read­ers are few, I feel I have let you down these last six months buy not post­ing any­thing at all on this “blog”.  Reas­ons: mainly, a prob­lem with the web­site which meant I couldn’t update … Con­tinue read­ing →