operation successful

Very exciting.

I took a few jugs full from the pond and put in the barrel but have to let that settle. Put a jug in the “water feature thingy” (WFT) and a couple of jugs in the fish tank.

And then lifted the tadpoles…..it HAD to be done…the fish would have eaten them otherwise….,managed to rescue about 10? Teeny ¼ inch tadpoles..put some in the WFT and some in the fish tank. Left about 5 in the jug where I could see them.

Now “down the other end” ..PAST the wire…you may remember there is a [collective noun] of spawn. You stare at it for a long time and you can see it wiggling. I haven’t worried about this, as you know, because they were the “men behind the wire”….BUT….i had the hose on to replace the water I stuck in the tub etc etc and I come back and all the bloody tiddlers are under the water….can tadpoles drown???

Common sense says no but then again…they were lying on top and wriggling around and now they are under water.

Am I truly the Karen Mathews of the fish world?

I stuck my hand into the gloopy mess and it came out with loads of them clinging to me….popped them into the WFT.

I’ve left some in the jug n the side.

Lets hope that - morale of miracle – just for once the teenagers dont come home and think they will ….tidy up

Anyway…we will see how we go….we have tadpoles aplenty dispersed amongst out various breeding devices…..

Fingers crossed.

I still have my mind on a midnight trip to preston park to catch a newt in a crisp packet.

And PS. Call me sentimental but it aint the same in the pond without that big old fish. To think that fox actually came and dug up the big daddy and he sat at the end of the garden and munched him. There are scales around the grave and I really have to harden my heart about it.