OK, haven’t been able to blog ’cause of internet troubles – or rather, router troubles. We invested in a belkin wireless router about six weeks back. Things were going great until it suddenly stopped working. We took it back to the store only to find they don’t stock that model anymore. So we were refunded our £55 and had to go to Pissy World where the cheapest we found was £90.

This one was a different brand (buffalo) and we couldn’t get the damn thing to work at all. On taking it back to the shop, the tech guy kindly informed us that they’d had lots of these back ’cause they don’t work with belkin adapters. So another refund and no internet! We decided to give up and buy online, and the new one arrived this morning. So far (touch wood) it appears to be working perfectly.

Feeling really sad right now. On Saturday, we purchased a new fish – a dragon puffer. He’s about 4 inches long and quite aggressive. Given that we already have dwarf puffers and the rest of the tankmates haven’t had any problems, we rather stupidly thought things would be ok. We were wrong.

Just an hour ago, P noticed one of the dwarfs floating dead on the surface. We scooped him out and saw that he was a bit bloated on one side. P suspected dropsy as we have been feeding quite a bit of bloodworm lately. Then a few minutes later, we saw another dwarf with a huge chunk of flesh hanging off his tail fin. I knew only one fish in the tank could have done this.

P had to do the horrible deed and euthanase him. I cried – I adore my dwarf puffers. To make me even more worried, I can see no sign of the remaining two dwarfs anywhere in the tank. I think our dragon may have eaten them… He’s been put in a quarantine tank for now.

I do hate to end on a bad note. My blogs have really been depressing lately, haven’t they. I’m still not enjoying work like I used to. I rarely put myself down for extra shifts nowadays. I also forgot father’s day – haven’t got round to phoning dad and apologising yet. Have been to see mum though. I bought her a giant cuddly tortoise for her birthday, lol.

Need more visitors to My Worst Nightmare. Do people not have bad dreams anymore. How dull!