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You are not accounting for people who can't get down, meters which are covered in muck, busy streets, in the road, have a heavy cover, be difficult to identify from an array of them, etc. I'd do the same as you - photograph - but it isn't always simple.

So if they supply 20,000 litres of water that leaks, the bill will include whatever that percentage is. They cannot split "used" from "leaked". Agreed about ground drainage!

I think the waste water charge would apply. They don't meter waste so they add supply and disposal rates together and apply to the total supplied. And my first scan of prices showed some areas could reach around £30,000.

The cost, as a customer, of 20,000 litres a day could be tens of thousands of pounds a year. I'd have thought any efficiently run organisation would be doing something to avoid that sort of cost without any need for the imposition of external targets. Starting with meters on the biggest pipes...

So they claim leaks fell - and so they did for a while. Meandering around the horizontal from about 2000 onwards. No continuing improvement. My personal involvement in a water leak, around 2014, showed me how poorly Thames were operating. My estimate of losses is around 20,000 litres a day...

Maybe: Two-thirds of Tory voters back temporary nationalisation of energy firms – poll Exclusive: Opinium poll also shows overwhelming support for Labour’s policy to freeze price cap...

It makes at least as much sense as the current other "plans". But I do think the issue of prepaid meters being made comparable to other tariffs is an important step which they have also put forward. The idea that the "social" subsidy would cover any excess costs of prepaid meters seems quite...

My only try was even further back. Everything was so s...l...o...w. I tried to stand up and it took about five minutes. But whether that was because it was that slow, or just seemed it, is much more difficult to know. But from what others said, I think it really was slow. The good bit wasn't...

A common mushroom of deciduous and coniferous woods and grassy areas in late summer and autumn, Paxillus involutus forms ectomycorrhizal relationships with a broad range of tree species. These benefit from the symbiosis as the fungus reduces their intake of heavy metals and increases resistance...

I have the advantage of being the photographer (the image I posted and many more) and having seen it come and go over several years. Some years its identity was much more obvious than others.

More appreciate by slugs, in my experience.

Meripilus giganteus! Chicken of the Woods is a real problem. There are many sources which go on and on about how wonderful it is - and safe. But there are also reports of CotW causing at least upset stomachs. Last I did a bit of searching the possibilities seemed to include there being...

One of the world experts of the time, I think 19th C, died from eating fungi. It is suggested that some could be eaten occasionally but, if consumed regularly, could build up. Or misidentification. There is one safe rule. Don't eat fungi. There is one less safe rule. Don't eat fungi that are...

Used to live near a quite extensive wood. And there were so many of numerous species. Got into photographing them for fun, interest, and our own records. E.g. from 2004:

If Truss gets in, it will be Uturnia.

If I were going to have to drive back from Sebastopol, I'd choose Sebastopol, Griffithstown, Pontypool, Wales. About two and a half hours.

So, unlike Hotel California, you actually can leave?

Who will be the first to charge a car while actually in the car wash? That could be fun. :)

I see Trump is complaining about the large group of FBI agents who raided Mar-a-lago. Just think how upset he'd have been if it had only been a small group. :)

I agree about texture! Some time back, I had an endoscopy and chose no sedation. Got through it - but they expressly commented "Very strong gag reflex". Dentists have also commented. And that is what I get with things like straw mushrooms in Chinese food. UK mushrooms are not quite that bad...