Allotment, Geocaching, Homebrew, Walks 'n Stuff

Been a strange few weeks in the tank. The Duncan was looking amazing one day and the next it was dead… All we have left is a skeleton and no idea at all what happened… It was our favourite coral, gutted such a shame..

Last weekend we decided to buy an orange spotted Goby (called TOBY!!!!)
Plus we got a GSP (Green Star Polyps), leather finger coral and err something else which I have no idea about.

So far Toby has hidden away and the sand isn’t being cleaned by him at all!! git! Earn your keep!!

Start/Finish : 54°25.187′N, 1°11.487′W (Lord Stones Cafe)
Total length : 9.3 miles
Time taken : 4:15 Hours
Min Elevation : 638ft
Max Elevation : 1384ft
Total Ascent : 2200ft

Well it was decided we would do the same walk but start at 7am (ish) and try to beat the previous time. Well we got going at roughly 7:15am and completed the walk in 4hr 15 mins!! No problems with cows this time and boy it was a very hot morning. Finished off at Lord Stones for food and drinks again.

Cold Moor take 2

Start/Finish : 54°25.187′N, 1°11.487′W (Lord Stones Cafe)
Total length : 9.5 miles
Time taken : 5 Hours
Min Elevation : 638ft
Max Elevation : 1384ft
Total Ascent : 2200ft – our biggest ever!

This was a circular walk from Lord Stones Cafe over to the Wainstones and across Cold Moor. I hadn’t realised how hard going this walk was going to be. It was up and down and then back up straight away with hardly any nice easy flat parts! This was out slowest walk we have ever done. Still had time to grab a couple of caches (Wainstones and Sit and see)and drop off our Gecko travelbug.

It was a strange day weather wise, it started off in mist and about 5C and finished in glorious sun 20C+. There were several time we didn’t think we could finish this walk and there were about 20 cows that didn’t want us to either. With 2 miles left to go a herd of cow started to stamp and kept blocking our path. It wasn’t a fun experience and the only way passed was to climb over some barbed wire fences and run over a field.. damn scary cows!

Up to Lord Stones for a pint and chip butties… shattered!!!

GPX file of the walk

Cold Moor Panorama

Elevation of walk

Well we took the plunge and bought 2 more clownfish a week ago. We were very nervous about getting any more, but they have settled in nicely and are eating frozen and flake (wish the Cardinal would eat flake!!!)

A few pics, poor ones of the clowns as they never keep still! The sand is starking to look filthy so vacuuming it at the weekend when doing a water change, plus getting some Nassarius snails and Cerith Snails to keep it clean.

Just put up my brassicas cage of debris netting, hose pipe and bamboo sticks. That should keep the pigeons and cabbage white butterflies off!!

Planted out “some” Brocolli and Cauliflowers under the netting. Broad Been plants stuck in as well…At some point in the last week or 2 I also sowed the following rows. Carrots, purple top turnip, beetroot, cos lettuce, and something else not labelled – ho hum

as the topic says

Water Parameters

Going for 2 types this year.

F1 MINIPOP x 20
The baby sweet corn that is popular for stir fry and salad dishes. This variety does not require sowing in blocks, an ideal variety for mini veg, producing 5-6 cobs per plant, Normal sugar type. Sweet corn mini pop doesn’t need to be planted in blocks it does not require pollination to produce cobs.

F1 CONQUEROR x 30
Super sweet type. A late variety producing a high yield of attractive cobs, which are approximately 22cm in length. Large sweet tasting grains. Reliable crops late in the season. A high class sweetcorn, perfectly adapted to the often troublesome English summer. Plants are strong growing and average 3 cobs and with 14-18 rows of succulent kernels, per plant. Superb eating quality

After the death of the 2 clown fish we lost our nerve at keeping more fish. The clowns just didn’t eat at all for a week and starved themselves to death. A week later we bought a Bangaii Cardinalfish and waited with baited breath to see if he would eat at all. On day 2 he started to chow down, so the clowns died because of a problem they had and not something we did wrong…

Photos just don’t do the colours justice