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Category Archives: fish
First, catch your fish… #writephoto
I can’t remember when I last felt so tired. The past couple of weeks have been hectic… in the best possible way… what with the workshop, reconnecting with old friends while they are in the country and all the usual … Continue reading
Posted in fish, Humour
Tagged aquarium, beauty, darkness, environment, fish tank, moving home, poverty
50 Comments
Murder most fowl…?
The sun rose, casting a rose-gold glow across a frozen world. I watched the daily miracle soften the sky, grateful that my home faces east that every day brings a reminder of renwa, and every dawn reminds me that now … Continue reading
Posted in Dogs, fish, Photography
Tagged beauty, blame, Garden, life lessons, pond, snow, spiritual journey
47 Comments
Horror in the sun…
It could have been worse, it could have been raining, but it was a springlike day of clear sunshine. Unseasonably mild, it was just the type of day for pottering in the garden. So I didn’t mind too much when … Continue reading
Hello…
There was an almighty racket in the garden. It could only be a wren. The tiny songsters have a voice far too big for their size, and their song is incredibly rich and varied. This, though, was a persistent, juvenile … Continue reading
A tale of tails
I had to clean the fish tank out Although it’s hot and steamy… The fish were swimming to the glass And couldn’t really see me. There’s one in there, a monster fish… There’s smaller sold for cooking… And he is … Continue reading
Posted in cats, Dogs, fish, Humour, Photography, Poetry
Tagged aquarium, cat and mouse, rhyming verse
36 Comments
What price life?
The fish seem to have noticed that it is spring. The little male gourami needs floating plants in which to build a bubble nest before his mate will take his advances seriously. As they have, quite inconsiderately, eaten all the … Continue reading
Posted in fish, Life
Tagged care, consciousness, fish, love, ownership, pets, responsibility
6 Comments
Nemesis
“Just out there,” said the cat, “There’s a pond full of fish. And fish, as you know, Is my favourite dish.” “There is one,” she continued, “With tail all askew… And to catch such a fish Should be easy to … Continue reading
Posted in cats, Dogs, fish, Humour, Photography, Poetry
Tagged Ani, cat versus fish, doggerel
22 Comments
A sad tail
The water in the winter pond is as clear as glass. At this time of year, when the weeds have sunk to the bottom to escape the ice and the various algae have ceased to bloom in the sun, you … Continue reading
Posted in fish
Tagged acceptance, gifts, golden orfe, hope, kink in tail, pond, recovery
72 Comments
Small Fry
I’ve written a fair bit about my son’s pond, from the drama with the worm-full pump to the marauding heron and especially Simon, the bubble blowing ghost koi with whom I have a bit of a thing going on. I … Continue reading
Posted in fish, Life, Photography, Spirituality
Tagged carp, fry, koi, lesson, orfe, pond
36 Comments
First, catch your fish…
I spent all morning in the garden. We have another dodgy looking fish. After losing Round Fish recently, I am keeping a close eye on the pond and spent a fair amount of the morning dangling over its rails, trying … Continue reading
Posted in Birds, fish, flowers, Life, Photography, Rose
Tagged ambition, desire, dream, goal, out of reach
26 Comments