Doctors, castles, settings and guinea pigs

Lets start with guinea pigs.

I've decided that my life wouldn't be complete with rabbits. Rabbtis are lovely, amazing, and all kinds of wonderful, but guinea pigs offer things like hugs and cuddles which most rabbits do not like at all.

It's okay Fuzzy, I still love you.

 Which led me to start calculating how much dream-Tulin life would cost. I made a spreadsheet to add the yearly cost of rabbits, guinea pigs, fish, a parrot, bearded dragons... Etc and then went further, and decided where I'd be living.

Obviously, I'd be living in a castle.

It'd be £2.5 million if I was happy to live in the middle of nowhere, up in Scotland. Suddenly my ambititon to earn just a million by the time I'm 30 doesn't seem ambitious enough.

So I get down to writing. I have a special writing assignment already which will probably take me around a year, but in order to guarantee future clients I've decided to focus on a portfolio that displays my writing and what I can do. I've been fortunate enough to spend a week at a Spanish island recently, and found a lot of the views truly amazing. But what inspired my writing most was how different the houses were, the castles, etc. I learnt that my settings were not varied enough. I need to liven them up.

Jereme Peabody is a talented software engineer and artist, and his gallery can be found on deviantart.

Jereme's work is very inspiring to me, and I hope my writing will begin to benefit from this.

In another world, I had an appointment recently with a specialist. She told me that yes, it's chronic, it'll be there all my life. She said there will be good days and there will be inevitable bad days, whatever happens. But then she said there's hope that under certain procedures it can be 'good weeks and bad days'.

Here's for a good week.