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CG: I am unsure about the palatibility of koi

If the local shops continue to clear out of food on account of the state of the roads for delivery, perhaps we shall need to eat them

Don't eat the roads, rayray! then you'll never be able to get out.

Koi are highly edible and that was the point of farming pond-raised fish in the first place. A Sunday Japanese buffet we used to go to had a cooked koi from time to time.

The fish were selected for attractiveness because the more picturesque ones were left to be allowed to breed, resulting in a dual purpose pond fish.

2.18 I hope the kitchen looks a lot better by now!

Good morning all - my avatar today is to give all of you suffering from freezing temperatures something nice to think about.
Amelia - it's warm up here too but I don't think we'll get any sympathy from those in the cold and, to be honest, I'd rather be here. It's annoying but we can get relief More...

Thanks Gail :)

Plum - I hope you can find the right bandage for Plums hand I have no further advice - the others have used up any ideas I might have had.
Rayray and others - I never considered what would happen to fish in a big freeze, or what to do about it. You learn something new every day.
Angie - More...

You're welcome Angie ;)

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Mo, sadly with you in sympathy.
I have not seen my Punchy Boy since I have arrived back home, last Friday night.

Shiela:
Thanks for your details abut how to use a pump to aerate the pond. I shall adapt our pump if the cold gets worse. Our pump powers a waterfall that is still aerating the pond water to some extent. After reading your account I realised that the waterfall is still running because its water More...

I am just eating a penguin (a brand of chocolate biscuit). Very symbolic.

Lots of interesting stuff here today.
RR...you jest I hope...those poor little koi...
Have learnt a lot about the perils of being a fish in a pond in your neck of the woods.

I can't imagine the kind of cold that many of you are experiencing as it's way outside our experience. I'd gladly share a little of our heat if I could. It's 38C right now, heading for 40, so we're told. Yesterday made 41 and tomorrow's forecast is 42. That's over 107F. There was a time when a day More...

Tonight will prove once and for all that Jupiter is sub-tropical, not tropical. A truly cold night, with prolonged temperature below 30 for the first time in decades. It will be interesting in the morning to look see which of the plants folks planted in the last 20 years were unable to take a true freeze, and not just a frost. Including my own of the last 5.

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Plum I am very concerned about the injury and where you may be up to now with the home remedies...
I do not claim to be the oracle where it comes to healing wounds but here is my two bobs worth.
Is the gauze off yet? If a wound is clean and not infected it is ok to leave well enough alone. In More...

Jim, why not go outside with a flashlight and cover your plants with a sheet of plastic or a tarp? If the temp is just near 30 and not too far below, that may protect them.

Bean, I think you may be right when injuries are serious enough to require the attention of professionals, in a professional environment like a hospital.

But you are pretty much alone when you say that "peroxide has no place." I think that saying it "has no place" may be More...

Dropping down to -4F tonight.

When my dad had a quintuple heart bypass, one of the leg wounds (where the surgeons got the veins to replace the ones clogged for my dad's heart) got infected and I had to dress the wound every day. I was told to clean with saline solution and not with peroxide because peroxide would not allow for More...

Thank you all for your advice and concern. Let me reassure everyone that the wound is now doing much better.

After over 2 hours of soaking we just went ahead and ripped the rest of the remaining gauze off. It bled, of course, but we let it form a soft scab and, once the bleeding stopped, More...

I'm just taking a break from reading almost 50 third graders' science essay on survival strategies used by plants and animals in the desert. I'm getting the facts but the writing is an atrocious! Boy, do I have my work cut out for me!

Quick hello, been asleep most of the day, now up for a roast dinner prepared by Mr P, then off to work again - sigh!

I don't know if anyone is interested in this - the first photos/videos of the sunken Australian hospital ship - the Centaur. It was torpedoed off Brisbane in 1943 and until Dec 09, it's exact whereabouts remained a mystery.
I'm so sorry that my mother is so far into her dementia to be able to More...

Looks like someone's pulled more than the plug.

Gail, I hope Punchy Boy returns soon. It is 2 weeks today since we last saw Sammi.
I have taken a photo this morning from our study window. It is in my gallery on my page.

When uploading that photo I realised that today is 10 01 10 this side of the pond and 01 01 10 over there(US)

actually that should read 01 10 10 in US

That brought back my binary lessons. In fact I have a binary watch somewhere, must look it out when I finally get round to unpacking small things. Sorting linens, towels etc., at the moment.

Might as well go for a cp as I haven't had one of those in a long while.

Thanks Mo, it's a yucky feeling.

"Eve - It is amazing we survived, isn't it?!!!!!"

It is not amazing that we survived, it will be amazing if the latest generation will be able to survive.

Sparks I am glad you are prepared to stand corrected...You are wrong regarding peroxide and healthy tissue. I hope you read Shosho's comment which by the way is how you promote healing on a deep wound...not a surface wound like this.

Saying "it has no place" is NOT alarmist and More...

Plum I am glad the wound is doing well. Pain is natures way of prompting you to protect this area while it is healing and is to be valued & respected. It isn't surprising that it bled when the dressing came off [I explained why that happened in my post yesterday]

It is good that there More...