Thursday
With the snow getting heavier and no let up in sight , i knew today was going to be a long s...
PLEASE NOTE, WE ARE CLOSED FOR THE WHOLE BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND AS NORMAL. ON FRIDAY WE ARE OPEN, BUT ONLY KOI THAT ARE IN THE SHOP CAN BE COLLECTED. SALE SALE SALE NOW 1/3 OF ALL KOI EXCEPT THOSE IN JAPAN 2025. FOR ONLINE KOI SALES THE CODE IS DGU2SJE2. All koi are now out of quarantine, and koi in the Annex and Forge can also be seen, We are reducing live stock levels, as we need to take the pressure of Sue and myself. .
Wednesday PM
After the most unpopuler lunch ever , we went round the corner to talk about tosai with our ol...
Wednesday AM
Feeling a bit out of sort sat the start of the today as i actually had to be awoken by the ala...
Tuesday
Today diddnt start off to well , an early appointment booked with Marudo koi farm , will have ...
Monday
Today we were joined by Mark Gardner whome im sure most of you will either know or heard of ...
Sunday
After having may be a few drinks too many the night before , i awoke this morning in a panic ,...
Saturday - Day One!
Myself and Mark Chetter arrived safely at Narita Saturday morning . We then spent an amazing f...
Tuesday : Trip summed up !
This trip was once yet again a very sucessfull one for Gatwick koi . I think we raised the sta...
Monday - The jouney home
Today was just about doing some work in the hotel room untill our 3pm train to Tokyo .After br...
Nogyosai show
Sunday morning was a good chance to catch up on alot of the internet work that needed doing . ...
Perfect end to a mad week!
Today is the last day with our agent , so with the Nogyosai show tomorrow and traveling back t...
Doitsu and the wierd and wonderfull!
This morning we were really looking forward to getting back to Shinoda today as we hear he had...
Not all the time , but sometimes size matters !!!
We left the hotel in high spritis today knowing that we were looking for some rather large koi...
Harvest Time
Todays adventures started with a trip over the top of Mushigame to harvest a mudpond of Maruhi...
Ups and downs
Since yesterday afternoon when we made the appointment with Sekiguchi , ive not been able to g...
Carlsberg doesn't do koi buying days, but if they did...
Monday morning and we had a lot to get round and do today , appointments were made the day bef...
Sunday
Last night i just seemed not to be able to sleep and the raging stomache bug ive had since i l...
The start of things to come ?
As some of you already know , three years ago i sat down with a very close friend of mine and ...
And were off , or are we ..........yes we are!
Finally left the shores of the UK for the mountains of Niigata this morning at 8am ( Thursday ...
Stiched up completely, totally and utterly!
Finally got some sleep last night , but when i awoke i realised that i really was ill and not ...
Monday
By now , most of you will know that we have started a sister comoany to Gatwick koi called Nis...
Exhausted !
Today was a great day , but unfortuantely ive not been able to sleep again since i arrived , i...
Showa Time!
Awoke today to a slighlty cooler 16 degrees , but that wasnt going to bother us any , as today...
Friday 10th : and we're off...
After a very favourable flight landed us in to Narita airport 30 minutes early , i found mysel...