Hi:

This is the website for Owen Carter, a British guy who has been living in Amsterdam for the last 11 years.

I'm afraid there is nothing earth-shattering here, no solutions for World Peace, no cures for peoples ills.. Just a few of my photos and ramblings.
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She’s got the berries..

June 30th, 2009 |


Berried crystal red shrimp

Wonderful! A crystal red shrimp carrying eggs in my 10L tank; look for the little ‘berries’ under her belly. I’m really rather pleased to see this happen in such a small tank. Now I need to think of how to get rid of the juveniles, at 3-7 euros each it may be worth feeding them up and selling them.

Click on the image for a better view, she will carry the eggs for a month or more before they hatch as minute versions of the parents.

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Midzomernachtcross

June 21st, 2009 |

Hectic weekend, 10 Miles running on Friday night in the Midzomernachtcross (Midsummer Night Race, not strictly held on the shortest night, but rather the Friday closest to it). It was a really good run held in near perfect conditions. I posted a good time: 1 hour 43 minutes and 43 seconds. Within seconds of my personal best time at this distance :-)
Then on Saturday I had a dragonboat racing afternoon in Amlere; with the EHDC, I’m shattered! We managed to avoid the wooden spoon in the 2km race, which is quite satisfying.

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Flying Boat

June 2nd, 2009 |
Coppelia being lifted

Coppelia being lifted

I lifted Coppelia  yesterday and removed the keel. A hundred kilos of cast iron, pretty awkward to handle :-) but lifting the boat was actually quite easy once I’d worked out the correct way of securing her.

The keel will now be renovated, it’s the last really big job before I can sail her for the first time in many years.

More photos in my gallery; here.

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