So a while ago I thought that I would get a Lamy fountain pen to see if it would help with my handwriting.
So off I go looking around at what is available and find the Lamy Safari, then I find the Lamy Al-star which cost a bit more than the Safari and I prefer metal pens due to my gorilla sized hands.
So I buy the Lamy Al-star with a fine nib, some Lamy blue black cartridges and a converter.
Wasn't really happy with the blue black ink (wasn't dark enough) so I went looking and found the Diamine blue black ink which is my new fave.
Got a small bottle of that plus a bottle & cartridges of Lamy black ink and a EF nib for the Al-star.
Time goes on and I see people talking about the TWSBI ECO and the Platinum Preppy pens.
So after some debate I visit my local fine pen and stationary shop (kind of dangerous to my wallet) I am now the owner of a TWSBI ECO with an EF nib, a PP with EF nib, Platinum Pigment Carbon Black Cartridges & a A5 Rhodia Webnotebook.
All was good for a while then I had a need for a better pen to carry in my bag.
So today I purchased an Kaweco AL Sport with EF nib, another Platinum Preppy with a fine nib, a box of Kaweco perl black cartridges and a box of Diamine blue black cartridges.
Hopefully I have enough pens for now but something tells me that I don't.
Kind of surprised that they haven't done what NZ has done and have one company that owns and maintains the physical network then sells access to ISP's. The company installs fiber to your house and terminates the fiber in an ONT (a box that converts from fiber to ethernet) that any ISP can connect to (or multiple ISP's depending on the ONT).
That way you have a choice of providers and there isn't multiple fiber installs being done.
Right now I get an uncapped, no contract 300down/100up for about £45 and if I wanted to I could bump it up to 950down/500up for another £10 a month (before any bundling discounts).
The speed is pretty consistent & often slightly over and I get a choice of router that I want to use (currently a MikroTik RB960PGS).
And I just looked it up and 2/4/8 gigabyte symmetric plans are being rolled out as they upgrade the cabinets and they aren't much more expensive.