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Literally what the title says.
How do you automatically switch on fish tank light and feed fish whilst away on vacation?

We’re going for 20 or so days away and this is the longest we will be away from our fishes :(
We go away for weekends and we’ve just missed out on a feed, and when we go on a week long vacation, we just use a fish tank feeder and keep the lights off. They’re usually fine and do okay without the light for that long.

We have a fish feeder but we just prop it on the opening of our fish tank lid since we have a fish tank lid we can’t mount the feeder as we don’t want to leave the tank fully open. It varies on how much it releases so I’m not sure if I should just continue using this?

The light - we turn this on and off manually everyday, I am trying to see if I can get a digital timer to work this but think I’m doing something wrong so is not working.

Any tips or ideas on how you do this when you’re away?
We live away from family and friends so no one can come and do this for us each day whilst we are away sadly.

Hi everyone

I am looking for a private hotspring. I don’t need an overnight stay just somewhere to go for half a day or something similar. I am Muslim so ideally somewhere private so I don’t have to wear my veil. Does anyone know of any spots in/around Beijing? We are due to fly out in 5-6 weeks. Thanks for all your help in advance!

I’m a postcard fanatic, does Coventry have any postcards? I’m in the area tomorrow so thought I’d check if they do? Also is Fargo village even worth going?

Hi everyone
Which shops in Reading sell postcards? I’m a collector and will be in Reading in a couple weeks

This is a message from my cousin, trying to help her find a book:

Hi everyone! I’m trying to find a book I read when I was 11 years old (circa 2009/2010) from my school library (London, UK). It’s an autobiography, and here’s what I remember about it:

- The cover was pink and had a close-up half face pic of a blonde girl’s (authors) face.
- The book is written in first person and is fairly lengthy.
- The story starts with the girl having her first seizure on the stairs at home. Her mum finds her, initially thinking the noise was her playing with their dog.
- As the story progresses, the girl experiences gradual and worsening blindness.
- She was hospitalised many times, and there are scenes where her mum or nurse wash her long hair while she’s lying in her hospital bed.
- Due to her declining vision, she uses a special adapted keyboard to type which she me too a near the end of the book.
- At the end of the book, she thanks a friend who helped take the photo that became the cover image.
- ⁠I don’t remember the name of her medical condition but it’s possible it causes more than just blindness i.e the seizure.

I’d be so grateful if anyone recognises this book or can point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance!

Asalamualikum everyone I am writing this message as I have been going through a lot, I don’t have anyone I can talk to about this right now.

It all started when me and my husband got married 3 yrs back we had a love marriage and we both different culture but both desi/south asian.
Anyways our first year we moved into a flat together but this was filled with ‘jinns’ we spoke with someone who confirmed it is jinns and they don’t want us at the home, anyways we moved out Jan 2025 (about 5-6 months after finding out). During this time we had severe health issues and my husband lost his job, just before we moved out he found another job but was unemployed for 9 months or so. In this time, we felt there was a lot of black magic, one of my sister in law said that there is someone very close to us doing this??

Anyways we are living in a new place and everything is fine, we still both have the health issues but we’re managing this and dealing with this.

I spent the weekend at my mums home and my husband spent the weekend at his mother’s. My sister in law has come from abroad to stay for a few weeks so we went to go see her and my husband wanted to stay over to spend some time with her. I have got home today and my husband said that my sister in law said we still have black magic on us. She said she knows who it is and she said it’s someone close to us, after my husband spoke my sister she said it’s my mum. Astaghfirullah.

I dont believe this and neither does my husband but my sister in law somehow knew my auntie was affected by black magic (this is true). I don’t know what I can do I’m worried, my mum is a niqabi, completed hajj, we went to umrah together in Nov 2025. My mum is strict with her salah, reads Quran after every salah, always doing extra salah’s (tahajjud, duha etc.) I just cannot believe my mum would be doing this. I’m worried about this all, my sister in law has said it’s been happening through the food we eat, the food is only affecting my husband and not me. I do bring food to my husband after my visits with my mum, we don’t go often as mum lives far (we go maybe every 3-4 months) and in laws always want us around every other weekend.

I do not know what to do I am scared and worried, I am a big overthinker. I don’t want this to affect my relationship with my mum and don’t want this to affect my husband relationship with my mum. My family agreed to our marriage but they don’t have a relationship with my in laws so my sister in law(s) have never met my mum outside of the day me and hubby got married. Apparently my mum is doing this to my husband only, is this possible? Apparently she is doing this to keep me very close to her - whatever that means? And apparently she is wanting me to have power over my husband - doesn’t really make any sense to be honest with you.

Asalamualikum everyone I am writing this message as I have been going through a lot, I don’t have anyone I can talk to about this right now.

It all started when me and my husband got married 3 yrs back we had a love marriage and we both different culture but both desi/south asian.
Anyways our first year we moved into a flat together but this was filled with ‘jinns’ we spoke with someone who confirmed it is jinns and they don’t want us at the home, anyways we moved out Jan 2025 (about 5-6 months after finding out). During this time we had severe health issues and my husband lost his job, just before we moved out he found another job but was unemployed for 9 months or so. In this time, we felt there was a lot of black magic, one of my sister in law said that there is someone very close to us doing this??

Anyways we are living in a new place and everything is fine, we still both have the health issues but we’re managing this and dealing with this.

I spent the weekend at my mums home and my husband spent the weekend at his mother’s. My sister in law has come from abroad to stay for a few weeks so we went to go see her and my husband wanted to stay over to spend some time with her. I have got home today and my husband said that my sister in law said we still have black magic on us. She said she knows who it is and she said it’s someone close to us, after my husband spoke my sister she said it’s my mum. Astaghfirullah.

I dont believe this and neither does my husband but my sister in law somehow knew my auntie was affected by black magic (this is true). I don’t know what I can do I’m worried, my mum is a niqabi, completed hajj, we went to umrah together in Nov 2025. My mum is strict with her salah, reads Quran after every salah, always doing extra salah’s (tahajjud, duha etc.) I just cannot believe my mum would be doing this. I’m worried about this all, my sister in law has said it’s been happening through the food we eat, the food is only affecting my husband and not me. I do bring food to my husband after my visits with my mum, we don’t go often as mum lives far (we go maybe every 3-4 months) and in laws always want us around every other weekend.

I do not know what to do I am scared and worried, I am a big overthinker. I don’t want this to affect my relationship with my mum and don’t want this to affect my husband relationship with my mum. My family agreed to our marriage but they don’t have a relationship with my in laws so my sister in law(s) have never met my mum outside of the day me and hubby got married.

Hi everyone I am just wondering if anyone has gotten pregnant with IVF support after both tubes have been removed (bilateral salpingectomy)
I had my laparoscopy 2 months ago, i have stage 4 endo. They drained my endometrioma cysts (they didn’t remove them due to my low AMH) and took out both my tubes due to inflammation.

Im stressed just want to be a mum right now and have some biological children. My fertility doctor isn’t going to see us until August and that means we won’t be put on the IVF list until then. I am in the UK and we are going through nhs first and then will think about private if it comes to it. I am currently on Zoladex and going through the medical menopause.

I need some successful stories or whatever sorry anyone can share I’m heavily down at the moment.