I know you'll probably find this boring...

...but, I'm quite excited, in an 'oh-good-grief-i-have-no-life' kind of way.

I went home at lunch time to see my bro, who's making VERY HEAVY WORK out of doing some gardening for me (he needed some cash, so I said I'd pay him to clear a bed out).

Aaaanyway, when we moved into our new house in December, there was a pond in the garden that was completely drained by the previous owners, but it filled up with rain over the winter - then we noticed that we had lots of toads visiting in the spring, and were quite happy with that - and then loads of baby froglets appeared... again, happy with that.

THEN we noticed what we thought were stickelbacks... and then we realised they weren't, but they might have been gudgeons... but they weren't... here's what they are.



How weird is that? OK, yeah, maybe not VERY, but, nature will always find a way - a COMPLETELY emptied pond, and we've got at least a dozen Koi Carp in there, they're quite small at the moment, but I'm fattening them up and giving them colour enhancing food too.