Well, Vinnie is now in fine fettle.

He is very playful and appears to have a second wind on with life!

I won't go into great details about his eye, as it has been very traumatic for me and him, but all is going well.

He has to suffer the pain of antibiotics until Monday evening, but I am confident that all will be well from then onwards!

I am very relieved as it has been horrid to watch him being driven mad with this infection.

I have also had to lay the law down as far as fighting in the home goes. Every time they look or make moves to attack each other, I step in, have a few stern words, make some scary noises and the situations resolves immediately.

I am please also to report that they only spent one night apart, they are now both sleeping together with me again, which is a great relief.

I find that when they fall out, feeding them treats alongside each other (treats meaning only ham or small pieces of fish) helps the situation.

I am planning a nice quiet weekend this week. I am thinking of a bottle of wine, big fluffy warm clothes and lots of unnecessary telly!!!!

Hope you have fun, whatever you are up too.

Well, this weekend has certainly been centred around Vinnie.

On Friday night he kept pressing his face against me, and kept rubbing one side of his face against everything he could find.

Saturday morning, we are down the vets first thing as his itchy face and it turns out that he has been in some sort of fight and had a cut on his lower eye lid.

I reckon it was Scooter than did it as they have been like a pair of WWF wrestlers on a sponsored fight all weekend.

We left armed with antibiotics and went off home.

Yesterday I looked at his eye again and was not happy.

This morning we were waiting outside waiting for the vets to open.

The soft lump under his eye is now the size of a cherry and gone rock hard, and his fur has come out around the area in question.

They took a good look at him, referred him to the other vet and then put a needle in and tried to draw something out.

The lump was hard with no gunk in it, so that is a really goods sign as an abscess would be soft and the area would leak like mad.

So, after a short delay, off home we went again to drop him back to the safety of the flat, and I just have to keep a watch on things and if I am not happy by Wednesday, then I shall have to take him back on Thursday as the tablets should have kicked in by then.

He seems ok in himself, and is eating and darting about so I think that it is worrying me more than him!!!

Had a mad weekend…. Hope to update on that tomorrow as bit mad here today!

How was your weekend?

It has been a busy time for my fish recently, and I am surprised that they are still alive with all the excitement that has been going on!

They have been treated a new light, which has enhanced their lives no end and increased my all day and all night viewing pleasure!

I have also gone a step further and changed the huge bulky heater that I had and swapped it for the official BiOrb heater.

Now that has made a real difference as it has created loads more room in the tank and now I have a clear view of what is going on the whole time! Not that much ever really happens, but I like to be prepared!!!

The new heater also means that my fish can now swim round in a full circle without interruption, which must be better for them.

It is non stop excitement really for my four finned friends!!! Now, I shall let things settle again before another 2 join the gang!!!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend, I have friends over for dinner on Saturday, so I am looking forward to cooking and having them round.

Here is another photo of the BiOrb in moonlight mode.

Well, as promised, I did some fiddling about, I tried my best to get some photos of the BiOrb in the basking moonlight mode with the iLight!

I currently have the light set u on the standard eight-hour daylight mode.

I am sure that my fish have grown since I got the light, or maybe it is just that I can see the fish now!!!!

I have gone abit mad as I have now ordered the BiOrb tropical heater pack! I currently have a massive water heater that I have to keep turning off to do water changes and it is just so big that I decided to treat the fish and I!!

I am going to go mad and get two more on Saturday!

Water Readings

Friday 14th September
Nitrite = 0,2
Ammonia = 0,5

10% water change carried out!

Sunday 16th September
Nitrite = 0,2
Ammonia = 0,5

but I did not get round to taking any photo's of the fantastic new light in my Biorb.

Now I know that for some of you, this will be devastated by this news, and you will feel robbed and cheated by me, and for that I am sorry.

I just felt so rough and so tired that I spent the whole evening eating ice cream whilst wrapped up in blankets!!!

It was just what I needed though as I do feel alot better today. I feel as though the cold is chucking me now and on it's way out! Never in my life have I been so happy to be chucked!!!

I had a funny old morning as Scooter was making a right commotion by the cat flap about 7am. I ignored him as he sometimes has mad moments when he rushes in and out like a lunatic for no real reason.

Suddenly, Vinnie, the king of lie ins, leapt up and joined in with the commotion by the cat flap, so I was forced to get out of the shower to see what was occurring. As I approached the flap, I saw the boys attempting to drag a huge pigeon in!!!

They had not a hope in hell chance of succeeding, so after much faffing about they decided to guard the pigeon outside and wait for me to solve the problem. Scooter wandered off bored, and Vinnie stared at the pigeon whilst I went to find the backdoor keys.

When I came back, I really wished that I had my camera ready as Vinnie was sitting by the pigeon with feathers all over him, poking out from the corner of his mouth, on the top of his head and all over his face!

He just looked at me as if to say “What?“

I did laugh and that put me in a much better mood today as I keep tittering thinking about Vinnie!!!!

Have a good weekend people. I am off to wedding tomorrow and then a flat cleaning and lazy day Sunday if the weather is bad, but a busy Sunday cleaning the van if the weather is good!

Take care and be happy.

as I have raging face ache on my left side, and obvious evidence suggests that my cold has turned into an infection of the left side.

My cheek bone is throbbing.

My eye is throbbing.

My head hurts.

If I move my head round, bend down or make any sudden movement I feel as sick as a dog.

My upper and lower teeth hurt on the left side.

I keep having a crispy nostril on the left side.

Luckily, my Biorb light arrived last night so I have the excitement of getting home and taking some photo's to post up tomorrow.

I just hope that I manage to get a decents nights sleep as last night was a nightmare, red hot, freezing cold, body hurting and face throbbing!

I really am such a drama queen eh?!!!

I just really hate feeling under the weather.

Still, it could be much worse and I could still be waiting for my light!!!!

Thanks for listening....

The Grumpy Drama Queen.

p.s and another bloody thing, Woolworths have already got Xmas decorations on show.

I am testing a new system at work.

As with almost every company you can ever work for, it is disorganised chaos.

I have to say that I am finding it rather tedious and want to stop it now, but that is not possible as I have only just started.

To cheer myself up, the accounts man went to the bank which is right near a bakery, so I ordered a hot cheese slice.

It just seemed rude not too as he was going into the bakers anyway.

I am in that sort of mood today!

I miss being at home with my boys just lazing the days away.

On the way home tonight I may go really mad and buy a lottery ticket. If I win, then I will be able to stay at home through the winter and keep an eye on the boys whilst they sleep through the cold weather!

I feel restless, I feel naughty, I feel like I need to throw myself into a project but I am not sure what yet.

You would think that the fish and the boys would be enough excitement really wouldn't you?!!!!!

Well, on Saturday 8th September I threw all caution to the wind and bought two black widows named Maz and Maud.

The main reason for buying them was because after 6 weeks, my 30 litre Biorb has still not cycled with the two zebra danio, Stan and Ollie.

I have added these two to try and move things along as I have decided to add another two black widows in the next month. After that, I am thinking that I will add another 4 fish and that will be it.

2 zebra danio, 4 black widow and 4 undecided will then become the occupants of Kackers Biorb!!! Any suggestions on the 4 undecided would be gratefully received!!

So here are the two black widows in their bag before the big release!!!

The proceedings, as usual, were closely over seen by my babycakes Scooter!

Then, all excited I took some faffy arty shots too!!!

MUCH EXCITEMENT as I have ordered my Biorb Intelligent LED light so that could be here by mid week. I am excited as I will look forward to taking lots more photo’s and night time fish watching!!!

I have thrown all caution to the wind and have just ordered this bad boy light for my Biorb tank!!!

I am also hoping to get 2 more fish tomorrow....... to bring my total up to four.

This is due to my tank still not completing it's cycle after 7 weeks with 2 fish in.

I cannot begin to tell you how excited I am!!!!

It all happens here!!!!

Well, my week off does actually sound quite boring when written down, but it was a great time off for me, getting loads of jobs done, having a good tidy and shuffle around, and managing to fit in some on the sofa with the boys watching telly time!!

I went to my good friends for a bar b q the first Saturday that I was off, and it was all fish based. I had sardines and I loved them! I have only ever had them with sauces, but freshly caught with a quick go on a griddle is certainly the way forward!!!

I had a friend come over on Bank Holiday Monday and we hit the vodka and watched loads of telly whilst putting the world to rights.

Then I had a fantastic week of having a real spring clean in the flat, finally folding down 5 large cardboard boxes and smashing the packaging up, sorting out my hallway storage and have a major clean u of my bedroom. It feels so much better and I am sure that I am sleeping better now the room is no longer cluttered and disorganised!

My mum sent me an early birthday cheque and I bought myself a microwave in a sale so I emptied all my kitchen cupboards into the middle of the room and had a good old sort out and a new arrangement is in place!

For the first three days after the arrival of the microwave I lived on scrambled eggs and jacket potatoes! I also made loads of fresh cooked meals which I have now frozen, cauliflower cheeses, pasta sauces and a vegetable casserole! I divided the all up into meal size containers as now I can heat them in the microwave! Honestly, I am so excited.

I have been in my flat since Xmas Eve, and I have managed to keep on to of running the flat, the 2 cats and keeping a van and car on the road, so I guess that I now know that I will be staying here as long as I can imagine!

It was a good week, though to some it may sound too boring for words! I was fine though as I had no money and feel much happier with the flat after the big cleaning frenzy!

I have also decided to sell my van and get a newer model next year. That is a huge decision for me, but I know it will make sense.

Have to get on and catch up at work, so behave and welcome back!