During the summer months you will find moth stuff, and you'll also find a new project on the front garden railway along with a slightly older project on astrophotography.  There's also Samson and Delilah, our ferrets.

Active Topics

1. Ferrets - our experience of ferret keeping, updated 8 January 2022.
2. Moth stuff - how to trap moths and the results of our moth trapping, updated 31 July 2016.
3. Front Garden railway - a garden railway on a postage stamp, updated 1 October 2023.
   
4. Astro - progress on astrophotography, updated 22 January 2017.
5. Photos from our garden - photos of interesting stuff we've come across, updated 3 September 2023.
   
6. Unhealthy obsessions - some unhealthy things to make and do, updated 30 June 2013.
7. Misc projects - this and that, updated 10 July 2021.
8. Our life stories in 100 words each - last [partially] updated 27 July 2022.
9. Recipes for the things we often cook - last updated 10 October 2023.
10. Blog - mostly venting, nothing to read here, updated 6 January 2021.
    

Site Archive

1. Robot stuff - progress on the design and build of RoboOne, an autonomous robot, last updated 5 November 2016.
2. Keeping lizards - keeping a bearded dragon and several chameleons, last updated 19 May 2015.
3. Keeping marine fish - keeping a marine aquarium, last updated 18 March 2013.
4. Locust breeding stuff - progress on our attempt to breed locusts, last updated 26 January 2009.
5. Hazel's gallery - last updated 21 December 2014.
6. Leo's gallery - last updated 16 June 2013.
7. N scale railway - last updated 7 May 2007.
8. Formicarium - last updated 2 December 2007.
9. Rob's dad's songs - some old recordings of Rob's dad singing some even older songs.
10. Beer and cider recipes - Rob has lapsed, so this was last updated 3 March 1998.
11. Drabbles - if you don't know what one is, click to find out.
12. Piper J3 Cub model plane - Rob only flew the model twice back in 1996, but it was immense fun to build so he's kept the pictures here.

Worthy Links

1. Essex Ferret Welfare - Wendy and Alan, the slightly mad ferret people.
2. Saffron Screen - Saffron Walden's cinema.
3. Saffron Hall - a state of the art concert hall in Saffron Walden.
4. Keele Quidditch Club - once Hazel's exercise regime.
5. ukmoths.org.uk - loads of pictures of moths at rest, essential resource for identification.
6. www.birdforum.net - not just birds, but lots of other stuff including forums where you may get help identifying moths.
7. www.ukleps.org - a great place to identify the eggs, larvae and pupae of British butterflies and moths.
8. www.beardeddragon.org - the A to Z of bearded dragons, including the famous arm-waving and head-bobbing videos.

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