Here we are as promised a picture of the new fish. There is a big difference in size but it won't be for long. The big shubunkin was about the size of the new fish when we got it but it soon grew into a beauty. We have now identified that the comet (the yellow one) is a male and the rest are female so we may soon hear the gentle swish of tiny fins.
Tonight was my weekly visit to my knit club. There was 10 of us there tonight and we had a good laugh and good chat as usual. I have been busy knitting away and next week we are having a talk from a man who is with the charity http://www.edinburghdirectaid.org/. They take any items so I will be busy this week finishing off what I have knitted. That is thing I hate the most the sewing up, on a positive note I did finish off something today it was a tank top in a lovely green marble wool by James C. Brett. It is quite a thick yarn but the finished garment feels very cosy.
A horrible thing happened when we were coming home tonight. I was given a lift from one of the ladies at the group and just as we were about to leave the car park a woman and her young daughter stopped us. The reason they stopped us was to beg for money, of course she came up with some cock and bull story about how she had come to the hospital to visit someone but when they got there they were not in the hospital and now she has no money for her and her daughter to get home. My friend gave her a pound but she wasn't happy with that luckily we were in a car and could get away quickly. I really think it is shocking that these "professional beggars" get away with this. If they got a pound from everyone they asked they would be rich, and to use a child to get sympathy is just disgusting. But this is a regular occurence where I live you can't even go to the local shop without someone asking you for money. I thought that begging was a criminal offence please feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
Anothere bug bear I have is those people who sell the Big Issue, I spoke to someone who sold it and he told me not to buy it as most of them who sell it are not in fact homeless. They "work" all day selling and then sit in the pub all night drinking their earnings so I for one will not buy the Big Issue. I know that there are probably a lot of genuine homeless who sell it but for those who are not they are giving them a bad name.
Right I will get off my soap box now and love you and leave you.
Cheerybye the now
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