Jay Z and Beyoncé join the family...

So last week we welcomed two new additions (in the form of Gold Fish) to the Syllabus Family....

Gideon had previously expressed his desire to house a shark tank in the Syllabus office, so for his 25th Birthday we made a start on his aquatic collection and surprised him with Jay Z and Beyoncé the Gold Fish.

Now seriously how hard can two Gold Fish be to look after?.... You would be surprised!

The first problem began when the man in the nice fish shop up the road told me that I needed to have a 'mature' tank (not bowl) to put them in with a working filter, greenery and water that has been in there for at least 2 weeks! - Now in true Lauren style I had left this to the actual day of Gideon's birthday and could not wait 2 weeks! So I thought quick on my feet and pretended that I already knew this and had a fully working fish tank already housing a couple of fish (I even named the pretend fish... quite worrying really)...

Anyway so after persuading the nice fish shop man I left with my two fish, Jay Z and Beyoncé, and headed back to the office where Joe, Jon and Leo had their new home waiting for them.

On arriving back I discovered there was a slight issue with filling the tank, of course the Syllabus office has to be on the 3rd floor and the only tap is in the basement, Hmmm... This was a job for Joe!

With Gideon happy and me happy, having two new additions to talk to who would actually probably enjoy my rambling the fish swam happily around in their new tank.

However it would appear that we hadn't (or I hadn't) quite thought this through properly, who is going to feed them on the weekend? So on Friday we over fed them hoping that they would survive...

On arriving into the office this morning Gideon expressed his regret that Jay Z and Beyoncé had sadly passed away from weekend starvation :-(

AND THEN....

A miracle happened, Jay Z and Beyoncé took another fishy breath and came back to life (they had obviously had enough of the boys and decided to play dead until they heard my voice)

We have now come to the conclusion that our Gold Fish may be depressed, so have filled their tank with pretty green things in an attempt to revive their spark for life...

And so the story of Jay Z and Beyoncé continues, lets see if we can make it through another week...

L x