Fish in a barrel

Our youngest, on hearing that we had said to our eldest that if she gets grade 8 on the piano she can have a dog, asked whether he could have a goldfish if he gets grade six on the saxophone. As he does not have a saxophone or saxophone lessons we thought this an unlikely outcome.

We decided that we would get some goldfish that could live in the garden. We tried to get them at the pet shop, but our environment did not meet their criteria. Fortunately our eldest's godfather has an abundance of goldfish in his pond and gave us two.