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Fish only or soft coral marine tanks aren't too bad. The only real requirement is to keep the tank at ~23c though I'd recommend higher to help with summer fluctuations. It gets expensive when you start adding hard corals because you need proper lights, way more consumables, dosing pump, reactors...

Water supply is only one part of their job though. I think you'd be hard pressed to argue that the other bits i.e. sewerage, wastewater and future infrastructure investment (and, you know, running a financially viable business lol) are working as expected. Also, how the actual **** can you fail...

It'll be an absolute outrage if the taxpayer foots the bill to avoid investors losing out in the event TW goes under. A private company that deliberately loaded up on debt to increase dividends whilst simultaneously running an essential service into the ground and poisoning our waterways? Madness.

I think the key words on the increase being 'at least'. A huge problem is that because these things are unregulated the management company is under no obligation to be cost effective. For example there's nothing at all to stop them sub contracting maintenance to affiliated companies at inflated...

Yeah I think self management is often a terrible idea. What’s needed, and what RTM is intended for, is a management company that works for the leaseholders rather than a freeholder who is either disinterested or worse has a vested interest in high fees (kickback from the agent or holds a...

I suspect the more publicity this gets the more 'fleeceholds' will turn out like leaseholds that have high ground rent/service charges - i.e. almost impossible to sell. Maybe even worse because in a lot of cases there's literally nothing you can do as the management company is baked into the...

If you have a lot of virgin points you could: Go the other way, i.e. via LA using virgin + delta? Virgin to Shanghai then cash ticket or I think China Eastern are a SkyTeam member? Virgin to Dubai then cash ticket? KLM to Singapore then cash ticket? Korean Air to Seoul then cash ticket? Or...

Sorry to hear that, hope it all turns out ok for you. If it's any help we're going through a similar thing with my dad, and the timelines you've stated there sound similar to what we experienced pre formal diagnosis. Hopefully not, but if it does turn out to be bad news bowel cancer UK ([link])...

Quite enjoyed this, not as much as BoB or the pacific but a good watch imo. I can't decide which of the three shows has the best intro music!

One more finished, might get the squad done by the end of the year at this rate! Tried to freehand the marble base, might try a different technique next time because I'm not sure how much I like it. edit: Man it's crazy how photos bring out flaws in the paint that you can't see without a...

Re-watching the HBO series Rome. Forgot how good it was!

It's a really satisfying result when you get it right, I just find doing it with multiple shades to be hard. I guess I could just drybrush instead but I want that GW 'eavy metal look!

Anyone else get stuck in the infinite loop of highlight -> touchup -> highlight -> touchup? :D

I have the same set of AO brushes. I like the two smallest ones but seem to have trouble with the 0 and 1 - can never get the right amount of paint on the brush. It's almost like the bristles are too long. Probably just me being bad at painting though. Might've been a bad idea buying nice...

Sure, but I don't really expect much. Only that people are competent and at least somewhat pro-active.

Yep, am noting everything down.

Let me preface by saying I've normally had good experiences with healthcare in this country. This is a minor rant mostly out of pure frustration at not being able to do anything but here goes: My dad got diagnosed with colon cancer about a month ago, grim prognosis unfortunately (do your...

Painted my first few minis for about 20 years recently! I'm enjoying it so far but it does take me about 20 hours or more to do a single model :eek:. Took a few quick photos of my latest (6th) model. The first 5 I did in the typical box art custodes colours, they look ok but I primed them with...

A Russian source I read quoted ~16k Russian KIA and ~5-7k Ukrainian. https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1759508960355262755

Sadly we're back yes :(. We loved it, probably the best holiday we've ever done. I took some (shaky) snorkelling footage around the resort, this was from 2-3 hours over a couple of days: