Jobs to be done

Well following the aftermath of the storms and the Christmas fiasco, we are left with a few jobs that need doing.  Having spent a lovely morning with Pam, enjoying coffee and a chat I returned home to go shopping with Sarah and sort out her finances.  We seemed to spend a long time sitting in Barclays waiting to see an advisor and eventually managed to transfer her children's saving account into an ISA for her.  Took some time but we got there in the end.  Funnily enough I am off to do the same thing with Daniel, why they cannot co-ordinate this between them so we only have one trip to the bank I simply do not know.  However it did give me the chance to get my photo yesterday for the daily photo challenge - a colourful rainbow - before the heavens opened yet again and we were met with more rain to finish the day.  I have had enough of rain now.  It can go away and let us have some blue skies.

Sadly when we had the storm over Christmas we lost a number of fish from our marine tank and would have lost them all had Martin not stayed up all night with the tank and agitated the water to allow the oxygen to get into the tank.  We managed to save our shark catfish, our nemos and one of the Monos however we lost our puffa fish and our regal tang as well as some of the smaller fish.  Sarah and Martin went off to replace some of them and came back with a new puffa and a new regal tang.  Our tang is very camera shy and hides in the rocks however the puffa seems to be more outgoing that our previous one and is happy to pose in the rocks, virtually sitting still for his photo shoot.  Not great quality but...................he camouflages beautifully into the rocks. 

We still have a number of other outstanding jobs to get sorted - namely the tree that needs to be removed from next door's lawn and the tall fir tree at the bottom of the garden that needs to be taken down before it falls down.  We also had someone come and look at the fence in the front garden and that has been ordered to get done as well.  We will slowly get back to normal I am sure.