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Feb 21 2013

Disaster again!!!

I hate heaters. Am never buying another second hand one ever. 😦 £300 in two years and they’re both done in….

Got a phone call of the other half today, the baby tank heater has malfunctioned. Raising the temperature from 12d to 29d… crap. 

Babies all sulking on the bottom. 

He turned the heater off opened up all the flaps. Babies are now swimming about. Temp down to 28d but going the steam off it is unreal.  

I am gutted. Going to have to pull it all off at the weekend and see why it’s gone kaput. 

Could be blanket weed all wrapped around the inside. Don’t know. 

At least they didn’t cook. Although pinked up and a little stressed. I am hoping they’ll recover quickly. 

Adding in some salt to help ease the stress. Last parasite check only a a few weeks ago so fingers all crossed. 

 Still not happy it is the second year running. Last year heater packed in and temp dropped from 20 to 10 in one night. 

Seneye isn’t plugged in due to no funds for the slides at present.  another sucky reason or I would have known something was wrong.

 

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This has really been a rough week. With our producer for Best Friends being let down. My co-writer and I had to do a pretty quick re-write. Good job even though the time difference sucks my friend and I work well together. 

The car wouldn’t start on Monday leading to a mad rush. Battery had gone done. £50 for a new one. 

 

And my poor coach/editor E.J had a small accident and hurt her arm. 

 

Jeeze, this week has been a real nightmare. Hope tomorrow brings something nice for us all. 

 

Hopefully we can pull the baby tank apart and see if there is indeed something blocking the heater. Least I can get rid of some blanket weed and clean the tunnel. 

 

Fingers crossed tormorrow is easier than the rest of this week has been. Think we might as well eat out tonight 🙂 

 

Catch you soon. 

 

Dawn 

Feb 4 2013

Never enough time in the day :(

It is great working on so many good projects. I love it. 

Filming on Best Friends Ep 5 will start soon. Can’t wait!!! 

Please check the Fbook page out 🙂 

https://www.facebook.com/bestfriendstvseries?ref=ts&fref=ts

I recently also asked a very talented artist to join the ‘small crew’ for TSK, and I am excited that it is moving on a whole new level. 🙂 

There is just not enough time in the day though. So much is taken with all the mundane necessities of life. I wish there just was more. lol. 

Had a good day in work, although the weather is wild. All fish are happy, 🙂 cleaned and filled both ponds and they all came begging for food. Roll on summer so I can feed them as much as their greedy eyes are asking for. 

Plus, in summer I get time off and we’re going to some cool koi shows.

I’m tired so this is a short one for now. This next week is going to be extremely busy. Editing session with E.J. tomorrow and a sales meeting in work on Wed, busy then for the rest of the week. eeek no time for anything. 

 

Will just take this one as it comes. 

 

Hope you all have a productive one. 

 

Jan 17 2013

YEY! oh, and some pond issues… lol

Hey everyone, 

I’ve been rushed off my feet again this week. With everything going on in work and at home there just doesn’t seem to be enough time in the day. 

 

Good news this morning, my first beta reader got back to me about my revamped TSK – The Beginning Chapter 1 and she loved it… 

 

I have to quote her here, ‘This version is so different I almost can’t believe it.  Excellent job!  I spotted a few little nitpicks but I must say I’m extremely impressed at how well (and quickly) you polished out the flaws.  The first draft read like a screenplay, but this reads like a novel. Nice work. : ) ‘ 

 

Awesome, and it really made my day. I was very happy this morning. 

 

And yeah, then I get a phone call from the other half, there’s a problem with the pond… again… oh no. It’s like 0d outside and they’re predicting snow for tomorrow. 

 

Always, always the way. And I hate it, 😦 why can’t you have problems like this in summer… when there is no issue in getting in the pond to clear up problems. But, nope, it has to be in the dead of winter. 

 

So, I spent 1.30 mins hands deep in 6d freezing cold water. (The pond is slightly heated) sucks… 

 

I’m inside now, had some coffee got the fire up the chimney and the heating on till I get warm. Think I’m going to settle for some reading, instead of writing for today, we’ll see. 

 

Hope you are all fab. 🙂 

 

D x x 

Jan 12 2013

Started well :)

Hey there everyone, this morning started well.

Got some more editing done. 🙂 yey!

Then went to help my brother with the new dance school. Painting and cleaning. They’re having a party for my niece this afternoon, but I didn’t go to that, wanted to get some rest before going out this evening to a friends party in Skem.

Got home and found the bottom drain on the pond blocked had to sort that out… it was freezing, not a good time to mess about in water, but I sorted it.

Had a small sleep, and now we’re ready to go out. Whoop whoop!!

Going to enjoy myself tonight, catch you in the morning…

Dawn x x

Jan 10 2013

Tough first week…

Hi everyone.

It has been a tough week and this has reflected on everything I’ve been doing.

Work is slow, which makes the day drag, I love my customers, love seeing them to chat even for a brief moment while they buy their lunch, but it’s a drag for them, and it’s the same for me. They’re all suffering with January blues and it makes me feel even worse too. 😦

Anyway, last night I went to a gent’s house to do a pond visit. He put a message up on the forum I help mod and seeing as he bought pond equipment off me last year, and lived local, I offered to take a look at his fish.

Paul took me up there, Liverpool isn’t too far away, but I don’t like new places in the dark. lol, we had dinner in a local pub which was really nice and then went to visit the pond.

Catching fish in the dark, wasn’t so easy for him, but we caught two.

When you first look into a strange pond. There are several tell tail signs which your looking for.

How the fish are reacting to you being there?

How are they swimming?

and when caught how docile are they?

what the mucus scrape looks like when you first take it?

to be fair his fish were quite responsive, they were for the most part swimming about okay, one or two were a little lopsided though so that was the first indicator.

The second to me was the mucus sample we took. It was grey and thick.

A healthy fish has an almost clear sample. This wasn’t.

So, really I knew I was looking for something under the scope, I just wasn’t so sure what I’d find.

The first sample was from a sanke, it had pinked shiro (white skin) and stress veins showing. Under the scope, it also had flukes…

First one done. Looking over the slide, probably around 20 flukes.

Second scrape came from a Magoi, much bigger than the first, and although it should have been a rich black, was greying with over producing mucus.

Again this had flukes on, (skin flukes I believe)

But I also found a few Chilodonella as well.

I carried on looking for about 30 mins, checking both slide again to make sure I wasn’t missing anything smaller, like Costia, but even though I thought I saw the odd, tiny movement, I couldn’t spot anything else.

Job done. And I left, at least knowing he could treat the pond correctly and his fish would soon be much happier. 🙂

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On the writing side of things this week.

I’ve read a lot, and I’ve edited a lot of the first three chapters of TSK – The beginning. I’ve also had some very good crits back from the nano website and from the OWWSFF which is a crit site specifically for sci fi, fanstasy and horror writers.

I finally think the first three chapters are getting there. Only another 26 to go… lol.

Looking forward to the weekend.

How are you all doing? Busy, slow, what’s your first full week back at work etc like?

Take care and speak soon.

Dawn