Air raid sirens are one of my interests, probably started by the original Silent Hill game when I was a kid. I think I also just like things that cover a lot under brief symbolism. I like flags and they represent an entire landmass, people, language, and way of...

I decided to try my hand at another sandbox zoo, after the one I was originally working on started crashing. In my last zoo I was going to have all the animals of the world in different sections. However, I was still working on the Africa section when it...

Believe it or not, my floorplanning obsession did not actually start with houses. While I have always wanted to build my own house, and I was stupidly small when I started scribbling designs, my first floorplan was actually a zoo! I did it on the back of a spare...

I’m pleased to say I can finally tell you about our new house! It has a number of similarities to the Arrested Development model home, such as a “Jack and Jill bathroom” between two bedrooms and a door in from the garage. It could also be described as a...

I’ve been meaning to write this post since October, but as usual, life got in the way. To cut to the chase, I want to tell you about something alarmingly simple called Plum.   Now, it’s not a secret that my financial situation is not amazing. I live on...

If you’re into that sort of thing. I’ve got gradually better at looking at it without completely freaking out. Today is the first day that the top of the knuckle hasn’t split and bled when the old dressing was taken off. It did bleed earlier in the day however,...

I didn’t expect to blog so soon again after my last post, but a mildly traumatising thing happened to me and so I am going to bang on about it. I can’t actually type properly at the moment so I apologise if there are typos and stuff. So anyway....

Not a lot of especially interesting stuff happened in the past week, but it was a bit of a weird one anyway. Also for some reason, in the post before last, photos that were uploaded in the portrait orientation, became landscape after I published the post. I don’t know...

Visitors from Google: don’t forget to check out this post about setting up an improved tank.   Although I haven’t had my snail Jupiter for very long, I’ve just put together his big tank for him to grow into, so I’m doing a post about that in case anyone...