Cranky old man with a series of ethnic backgrounds of miscellaneous sort. Poet and painter, mainly and overall, anything else for the sake of paying bills, so, landscaper, gardener, jack of all trades. Hello all.
Open remote profile ↗Been to the food bank. Not much left, it opens at 9am or so, still... managed to get a cabbage, 6 boiled eggs (still in date, just), Brussels sprouts (somewhat worse for wear) two cans of tomato sauce, two avocado, spuds, bag o'beans.
There was a lot of bread but I took none cos I make my own.
InchAllah and shucrain. (sp wrong I know)
Bought a bag of barley straw, £3.50 at a pet shop nearby. Doesn't show the weight, about 3 or 4 kilos.
Pulled out a bundle, wrapped it in a piece of old net, added half a brick and put it in.
There are algae at the bottom, have no clue how much it should be, so am experimenting...
Will report.
#pond #photography #allotment #straw #barley
Went for a quick shopping foray, on the bike in driving rain, cold too.
Bought 1 kilo of Turkish flour; 15 British eggs; 5 EU lemons; 1 pack of Egyptian flat bread;
An am glad am not keen on dried fish, or else might have bought 'barracuda fillets'... African...
This shop won't cease to surprise me.