Hi all. As you know by now, Sue and myself have split up. The damage is irreversible, but we are trying to keep the shop going together, but im not too sure if it will long term. So we are drastically going to reduce koi stocks, so we can may be work around it. So from Saturday 10 there will be 1/3 to 50 % of all koi in the UK. If we can, we will show you around the Forge as well so you will have 100s if not 1000s of koi to see. Everything is now out of quarantine. If you want to see the Momotaro pond, the water is clearing, but call first to double check before travelling.
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Woke up a little bit groggy today  ,

and would like to blame the altitude , jet lag , hot fish house , or may be , just may be , the red wine drunk with the steak last night , and then joining Tim Waddington and co for a quick guiness in the Irish bar , which then turned to another  , then another , etc etc etc ! But showered and hit the road , and was fine , just a combination of everything ! 

       first stop Shinoda , went up as our agent needed some doitsu , gin rin and hi utsuri for a client , and i also had a hi utsuri that won a gold medal at the young show in azukari . When we arrived , there were some doitsu available , so we bowled them up , and purchased some more . Some people have all ready commentated on how many non go sanke we are buying . All i can say is , its selling , and thats our business , and thats that  .

     From Shinoda , we went to Yagenji who had very little loi for sale , and then to Shinatro . He had many great go sanke for sale , his motto is maker of dreams  , and i could see that was easy to believe . We dont buy his high grade koi , thats not our business , but what we do is buy many resonable koi , at what he calls asda price . But it seems Asda doesnt open in Mushigame until spring , then we will return for tosai , and whats left of his nisai , that is affordabe to our customers . 

      We then went down the hill to Kawaguchi village to visit Tsuna , breeder of the finest kin ki usturi i have ever seen , but he had no nisai , so it was then on to Yamazaki . Some times you walk into a breeder and you are shocked , i was met by almost empty pond everywhere , Yamazaki are having a wonderfull season , and seem to be selling everything they harvest ! Long story short , i ended up with some nice small nisai , and then two female kin ki utusir around 55-60cm , and a male doitsu karashikoi , which was nothing less than superb .

 

       To be honest , we were then struggling for breeders to visit , so we rang Oozumi for selection of some small nisai 25cm , cheap and east to pack due to the size .WRONG ! His nisai were 30-35cm , and a few nice ones in the ponds . A deal was struck , and we ended up with kin showa , beni kikokoryu , doitssi metalic ochiba , and great kujaku that are bred by crossing kuhaku with goshiki , yuki asagi and many more . We have an option on some more koi , i need to think about over night . 

   Went for a box of higher quality nisai first .

Then it was time to call it a day , and head back to the hotel .

 

 

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