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Recent life things

Yo, here’s some stuff that’s been happening. This one’s probably boring, but a while ago, our toilet started running. You might have an amusing image in your head, but actually, it just means that our cistern was leaking and the toilet was essentially flushing itself about once a minute...

Sleep masks are great

I bought a new sleep mask on Etsy recently and I want to have a bit of a rave about it. I used to have a cheap supermarket one, which sufficed, until I inexplicably lost it in my own house. It’s not down the side of my bedside table,...

My secret weapon against spiders

This is an August essential; it’s now that the T. gigantea start coming out (although apparently they’ve now been named Eratigena atrica). I was bitten by one once during an aforementioned blanket incident, and I never bypass an opportunity to bang on about it. There was one at my...

The Tomb Raider Trilogy on PS3

I’ve been playing the original Tomb Raider on the PS3 recently. It’s the only console that we’ve unpacked since moving here (and also the only one we have the right cable with to make it work with my partner’s TV). I had a sudden aching to play the Anniversary...

My weird hobby: Playing Tomb Raider levels backwards

This is very much explained by the title of the post, but perhaps could use further elaboration. On the original 1996 Tomb Raider game, it is possible to play some levels in almost-reverse order, avoid trigger points for enemies, and other such things. In the last few years I’ve only...