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Paper modelling. If you think aquascaping takes patience, try this! My current project, a Japanese castle called Himeji:

You're too kind, George :thumbup: It's all down to clean living - NOT!! Perhaps having no kids has something to do with it - either that, or not discovering the dubious pleasures of fighting algae until I was already fairly ancient! :angel:

Please bear with me chaps... Each separate element in each diagram is the same in both, no? As the blurb says: "The partitions are exactly the same as those used above." The two shapes they are used to construct are the same, too - right-angled triangles with sides measuring 5 by 13 units...

Well it didn't spoil it for me - I still don't geddit... :shifty:

Isn't the point that, if you don't tell your insurer about any mods it can invalidate your insurance? What's the point of paying £1600 for NO insurance, rather than £3000 and being legally covered - or not making the mods in the first place? Maybe it's better to wait until you're an old...

Agreed - Rodrigo y Gabriela are very special - and they started out in a heavy metal band! But 'the best ever'? Try Nick Drake, Paco Pena, Paco de Lucia, Andres Segovia, John Martyn. And that Andy McKee video is simply remarkable, too.

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Andy - volunteer. If a lack of confidence is holding you back, then experiencing how nice most other people are by volunteering will cure you for sure. EVERYONE lacks confidence - you just have to go for it a bit, without acting like a mad axeman. Eye contact and smiling really matter - if...

...just as well they don't work in fish shops!

A long shot, but you might try places where there are wild fluctuations in demand for labour, and only a small resident population to service that demand - the Lake District springs to mind. If you know anyone here whose floor you can sleep on (sorry, I can't oblige), and can make beds, clean...

Hi Andy I'm 50, I've never worked in a fish shop, and I don't know much about fish, but... I'd suggest you think carefully about your skills OTHER than the fishkeeping ones. Any retailer worth his salt will want someone who can sell (but sell responsibly), build relationships with customers...

I've just today got a copy of RRCi's 'Rock Crawling Special' mag, and the 'Off the Beaten Track' DVD, so lots more info about crawlers. The technical side seems comparable to planted tanks in a way - get your head round obscure stuff, get the right kit together, then try to work out how the...

The problem with UKAPS is that members are just as anoraky as me, and I wind up finding other excuses to spend. That passing reference to rock crawlers caught my eye, as I loved my old Tamiya and we have a few rocks here in Lakeland. :wink: So I googled "Rock Crawler", and now I'm working out...

That's seriously nutty - and technology has obviously moved on a bit since I had a Tamiya XR311 - does that age me? It had plastic torsion bar suspension which didn't last too long - rather lost interest after that!

Nah, they're an introduced pest species. I wonder if you can get loaches that snack on them - or perhaps Assassin security guards, that kill them by sucking them out of their uniforms? (oo-er!)

Er, I think you'll find the plants are just the other side of that wrought-iron fence - quite an adventurous 'borrowed landscape' approach imho...

I found lenses seriously liberating. Dinghy sailing would be much, much less fun with specs, and there are many other activities that are easier/better/more enjoyable with lenses, not glasses. I wear rigid lenses, which are easier to care for but harder to get used to. They also give better...

As a daft aside - you know when you stand up suddenly from being crouched down low, it can make you go lightheaded, or even faint? A good way to stop that is - wait for it - to clench your buttocks! The big muscles force blood back up to your brain, apparently. It was a trick used by...

The choice is yours, of course, Thomas, but I'd say it might be worth a bit of perseverence. I've worn lenses for years, and allthough they're not perfect they're a sight better (pun intended!) than specs - for me at least. I certainly wouldn't give up when you haven't really given yourself a...

This is what I 'drove' in London for six years - amazing machine. In the wet you could drift it round corners with all three wheels sliding, and I'd be looking up at the very lowest sports car drivers - a wild machine, so long as you could take the ridicule! :lol:

Aah! Just got 'London Calling' on CD myself - my original vinyl copy disappeared years ago. Impressed with how well it's worn.

That's interesting, Bazz. I just got an authorised bootleg of early family recordings of Nick Drake. The sleeve notes (by his sister and childhood friends) suggests he was much less of the mysterious, isolated depressive than has been claimed by others since his death. Still sad, I suppose...

:text-+1: All the radios in the house are permanently tuned to R4. Move round the house turning all on as I go, so the flow isn't interrupted - until The Archers comes on and it's a race round to switch 'em all off again!

Recent listening: Nick Drake Erykah Badu Dame Shirley Bassey Skatalites The In Crowd (Northern Soul compilation) Portishead The Who (Who's Next - Baba O'Riley) Duke Ellington (Far East Suite) Fela Kuti - and (apprehensively) the sound of snowflakes falling on Kendal...

Come on, Aaron, you just know it'll feel great to get up into the stratosphere with Paulo!

An arborist friend tells me that a tree's 'life' is only half over when it dies. This figure is extended even further when it remains standing, which is why arborists are finally taking a more robust attitude to leaving dead trees alone unless they're in REALLY busy locations.

Merry Xmas one and all!

Congratulations - she's a real little smasher! Go on, treat yourself to a stiff whisky...

HB, G-man! :wave:

Lovely story. I've done a lot of bicycle touring, and have found all over the world, when you're in a vulnerable situation (as you are constantly on a bike), that people of all sorts are overwhelmingly good, kind, generous and helpful. It's a wonderful world - it really is!

As a Cumbrian resident, I can confirm that these have been a serious few days for thousands of local people. You'll all have seen the washed out bridges, flooded homes and heard about the sad loss of a local copper, but behind these headline grabbing stories there are many, many more people...

Aah - even people who live wthout cars can be miserable, grasping, selfish types. Not me though - honest!

Got to agree, too. I lived car-free in London for 15 years, and loved it. Living car-free is massively underrated. All we need now is brilliant public transport countrywide - in my dreams...

Re: what car are we driveing? Citroen Berlingo 2 litre diesel. Because I can get all our sailing gear in it and tow the dinghy behind,no problem. It'll also take a 100x45x55 Opti-white plus cabinet in the rear with ease. And I'm not into cars...

I also suffer from Seriously Hot Hand Syndrome, but my pastry is excellent. You need to get yourself one of these. They really work! Err, Leah, I've just made the connection between these fabulous-looking cakes and your picture in the Members' photo album - I do hope your husband appreciates...

Ewwww! :lol:

Well, people who stop spending on fags will tend to spend the money saved on other stuff (aquaria?!) that carries taxation, albeit not at such a high rate as tobacco, so that'll offset lost tax revenues a bit. Plus there'll be a huge saving to the NHS, which should help balance the books...

I still pinch myself sometimes on my good fortune. But I did take a massive pay cut for the privilege of working here. :thumbdown: Tap water quality is outstanding, though. :D

I'm town centre manager for Windermere, Bowness, Ambleside and Grasmere. Lots of water, lots of moss, lots of rocks... Oh, and agreed, Saintly's work looks beautiful - great to see genuine craftsmanship alive and well.

Hi Mark, I've just read this entire thread, then gone back and re-read your original post. You said: Well congratulations, the responses so far (and I'm sure there'll be more in similar vein) prove that you have acheived that, and much more besides. It was the top aquascapers posting...

Well, there you go - an excellent explanation for why we have that front-end - thanks SC. And it occurs to me now that the intro pages did exactly what they're meant to do when I first accessed the site! As I said, I know sweet FA about web design :cry:

As a newbie myself, I've got to agree with others that a well-intentioned newbie section would probably be counter-productive. When I stumbled on this site, I started off by reading the articles and tutorials, especially Ed Seeley's outstanding one on setting up a high-tech tank. The...

50, but I don't feel 35 (sob)... :cry: :cry:

...you VERY young guys :shock:

That's a cracker! :lol:

Thanks again guys. Easy paper round, Grecian 2000 and clean living! :lol:

Yeah, just turn up and hunt around. This has worked for me for years. In the holiday season it works anywhere with a good range of accommodation providers, because there will ALWAYS be last minute cancellations. Top tip is to start looking at lunchtime, or you'll get stressed and spare rooms...

How kind, chaps! I'm loving the heat up here, and my missus is holding back on buying me a pressie until my Optiwhite turns up in a week or a few. She doesn't yet know her hard-earned is going to be spent on rocks, sticks and dirt!

I think you're all missing the point. If all the bees disappear things will get very confusing on here. Here's a typical post-bee post: Sorry, I think the wait for my very first aquarium has finally tipped me over the Fluval Edge...

Not sure about all this north/south rivalry - I'm the first PROPER resident northerner to post on this thread, IMHO :wink: Driving up the M6 this am from Lancaster towards Kendal in clear blue skies, brilliant sunshine, roads clear, and a line of crisp white fells on the horizon... :lol:

I'm from Kendal (of course) in Cumbria! That's a first! And I haven't even got an aquarium (yet).

I found this thread - and Jeremy's blog - fascinating. As an aspiring planted tank fishkeeper, I find the animal welfare issues far from straightforward. I assumed at first that all/most tropical fish were captive bred, but now realise many are wild caught. In trying to get a handle on this...