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Hector’s House

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

The classic 70’s children’s TV programme featuring Hector the dog, Zsazsa the cat and their neighbour Kiki the frog.

Well it could be, this is what we call a shed, but it’s a Wendy House for children, it was described as a shed in the fixtures and fittings and left by the previous occupants. We or I find it handy to fit things in that don’t fit in the garage because the fish house is in there!

It’s in a bad state of repair, and if I don’t attend to it quickly, I think it will rot to compost. I think I could have purchased another one for what the wood, roofing felt, and wood preserver has cost me from B and Q!

All the wood that has been painted in “seagrass” is new. The old wood was removed because it had rotted out.

covered-up for the evening, whilst I paint and seal the wood.

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Cottage Garden Border Re-visited

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Since I’ve been having a few problems with the slugs and snails eating one of my prize Hostas, I thought I’d upload some close-up pictures of them. I’ve always wanted to grow hostas, and now I have a shaddy part of the garden, ideal. I’ve used some sharp grit to mulch the area around the plants, and I’ve boiled-up some garlic cloves in water, and I’ve been spraying the plants and ground to keep the slugs and snails off.

Close up of the three Hostas

If you click the picture and look at the larger image, you’ll see where the snails/slugs have been eating this plant.

I do have the latin names if interested!

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Fine Art Installation

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

What do you think? Does it pass for a Fine Art Installation? I was going to call it “Fishtanks”.

More Tanks1
“Fishtanks 1”

More Tanks2
“Fishtanks 2”

As I’ve been at home today, babysitting the fish-house due to the power outage, well looking after the petrol generator. I had some spare time on my hands to wash and clean the fish tanks I collected some weeks ago, these six 30x15x12 are due to go into the fish house, when the shelving arrives.

The fish-house was on generated electricity from 8.00am – 3.00pm today, and consumed 5 kWh (units) of electricity.

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Cottage Garden Border

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Lindsey weeded this natural cottage garden border under the Holly Tree at the front of the garden. It already has wild garlic, a wild fern and Cuckoo Pints Arum maculatum growing in it, so these were left, but the weeds were thined out.

Front Border
Plnated with White and Apricot Foxgloves Digitalis purpurea, Hostas and Geraniums.

UPDATE The bloody slugs or snails have started eating my prize hostas! I’m off to get some spent coffee granules tomorrow!

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Just returned from another Stealth Mission

Friday, May 4th, 2007

Another long day at the office, and then an hours drive across the Humber Bridge to Licolnshire. Broughton near Bigg, just outside Scunthorpe.

I visited a local fishkeeper, who is shutting down his fish house, only to find he had a Royal tiger shovelnose catfish Merodontotus tigrinus or Brachyplatystoma tigrinum it’s new latin name and an fantastic Green Arrowana in his 7ft display tank.

This is the second time I’ve seen a Merodontotus tigrinus, the first one, was when it was first imported into the UK, and the price tag was well over a 1000 GBP for the fish.

Blog

Friday, May 4th, 2007

I keep getting asked if I’ve updated my website or uploaded new pictures.

“A blog (short for web log) is a website where entries are made and displayed in a reverse chronological order.”

If you would like to be automatically updated when I’ve updated the blog, rather than asking me if I’ve updated it, uploaded new pictures or checking back regularly you may like to use an aggregator.

An aggregatoror or news aggregator or feed reader is client software that you install on your PC and uses web feed to retrieve syndicated web content such as blogs, podcasts, vlogs, and mainstream mass media websites, or in the case of a search aggregator, a customized set of search results.

Aggregators reduce the time and effort needed to regularly check websites for updates.

Aggregator features are being built into portal sites such as My Yahoo! and Google; modern web browsers; and e-mail programs. (Also known as RSS Readers).

So include the following URL into your Aggregators.

https://andysworld.org.uk/house/rss.php?ver=2

Set your Aggregator to update daily, and it will collect the new posts automatically.

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Front Garden at the end of April 2007

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

A few blog readers have asked for more pictures of the garden. He are more pictures of the front garden, because we do not have a back garden!

Right of picture is the pear tree in blossom. In the foreground is the Magnolia, flowering has almost come to an end.

We planted 10kgs of daffodills in the lawn in November 2006, so we are waiting for them to die down, before cutting the entire lawn.

Has the chimney moved?

I’ve also completed and fixed some code, I’ve been working on for months, so the pictures displayed above are thumbnail versions of the original versions which are also stored on the blog server, they are “clickable”. So if you click the pictures you will see the original images before resizing to fit the blog.

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Back to the West Country

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

I’ve been away from my home and fish house, I’ve spent 10 days back in the West Country – Plymouth to be exact. Where the water is soft (ph 6.5-7.0) unlike my local tap water which is hard (you can stand a teaspoon in it!) and ph 8.0 – 8.5. and the vast numbers of tropical fish shops, I spent a day and a half visting them all!

I visited the following Tropical Fish Shops, when visting in and around Plymouth, and excellent stock of fish on display, South American Cichlids and Ls, I just wish I could have taken them all home!

Bretonside Tropicals, 45 Bretonside, Plymouth, PL4 0BB
Devon Tropicals, 146, Union St, Plymouth, Devon, PL1 3HL
Emperor Tropicals, 9, St. Erth Rd, Plymouth, Devon, PL2 3SW
Maidenhead Aquatics @ Plymouth,Plymouth Garden Centre, Fort Austin Avenue, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 5NU
Plymouthdiscus.Com, 48, Thirlmere Gardens, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 5HF.

[by appointment only]

Tamar View Aquatics, Tamar View Nurseries Garden Centre, Saltash, PL12 6PH
Tropical Waters Aquatic Pet Centre, Christian Mill Business Park, Tamerton Foliot Rd, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 5DS
Waterfall Aquatics, 89-91, Victoria Rd, Plymouth, Devon, PL5 1RX