do you own anything unusual in your home??

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We have a few taxidermy pieces dotted about. I have a shop mannequin in my room. There are chickens in the garden, quails and very soon we shall have 2 ducklings.

Ooh my mum just reminded me she has her nana's false teeth, hairs and glasses in a little special box.

A working Geiger counter.

- A newspaper from September 24, 1991 that I found under attic floor boards while poking around; it speaks of the first president Bush warning Saddam Hussein that there might be more military intervention if Saddam keeps badmouthing the United Nations, and it mentions the Soviet Union, which was dissolved about three months later. It was apparently cloudy in Barendrecht in September 1991. There should be several, perhaps dozens more newspapers under those boards, as my parents had a subscription to that when they were renovating the house. More interesting, perhaps, is that they had a wall with electric fittings put in the attic in 1997-1998, yet apparently didn't change the floor in any way.
- A former Soviet Union navy hat which, for some reason, fits perfectly on a white teddy bear first dressed in baseball clothes that I've had since I was a baby.
- A lot of strange books. I wonder why my parents need a typed version of the Domesday Book with photographs or descriptions of locations mentioned in the book. I'd better ask them.
- In the tool shed, there seems to be, or have been, a ladies' bicycle from the 1960s that stayed there until last time I checked. Since the 1990s, I don't remember anyone using it.
- In that same tool shed, I found kites clearly meant for me but never given to me, and a lawnmower we still have even though we've replaced our lawn by stone and gravel years ago. There also seem to be enough materials to build a small shack, and enough chemicals and fireworks to wipe my house from the face of the earth. The fireworks are my fault - I usually buy too many fireworks, and I can only legally set them off one day a year.
- My father's study has some self-constructed miniature battlefields that he uses to display parts of battles from the time of Napoleon.
- There's access to a secret crawl space below the front door mat. It's large enough to fit a few adults, and only really contains some pipes and a lot of dead insects and occasionally some rodents. Perhaps we should start putting stuff there.

There must be some more, but I'd have to look for it. This place is a mess.

A chemist's still. I've never distilled anything with it but it is a beautiful example of the art of glass blowing.

Five fezes

Two pages from a breviary printed in 1556. Nothing too ornate or illuminated, just rather nice for the red and black Gothic lettering and that they still exist in perfect condition 456 years later.

This tattered up old bible, and a really old (I don't know how old) Webster's Dictionary.

EDIT: I took a look at the publishing date, and it's 1898.

A small rug made of kangaroo skin/fur.

I saw Bobby Brown at Madison Square Garden in NYC years ago. I'd paid $75. For that, not only did I get his 'My Prerogative' CD but also a life-size standee of Bobby Brown. I used to display it in my apartment. People would get startled when they walked in and, out of the corner of their eye, saw Bobby standing there! That was rich.

Let's see...

2 Shortwave radios that I use with a Slinky and a piece of wire to listen to broadcasts from around the world. One is kept in a Faraday cage along with a solar panel for use after a large solar flare knocks out electronic communication.

Vintage radiological monitoring devices from the US "Office of Civil Defense" including:
3 CDV 715 Radiological survey meters
1 CDV 700 Geiger counter
6 CDV 742 radiological dosimeter pens
1 CDV 750 Dosimeter pen charger
Several pieces of original literature on how to read the instruments

A shop press (on the front porch)

A flux core welder

A toy Lunochod I from the Soviet Union
A toy tracked polar vehicle from the Soviet Union

A late 50's vintage sewing machine from Japan (I liked the way it looked and bought it for $20 from a thrift store. I then rewired it and made it work again, but I was not able to use it for upholstery work so it now just gathers dust.)

A vintage Smith Corona portable typewriter. (It's manual so it's good for a grid down existence.)

Several toy Trabants, a Trabant 601 model kit and an original Trabant kombi brochure from East Germany. I also have a commemorative plate from the Trabant museum in Zwickau. (I LOVE Soviet block cars!! !)

Geo Metro parts, brochures and service manuals

Several vintage Kodak cameras ranging from the turn of the last century to the mid 1950's

A collection of Hess trucks

At my dad's house, I have a starfish. It's a dead one, but still.

Oh yes, I also have a Flamefast tilt-crucible aluminium melting furnace in the corner of the living room (no, I'm not crazy enough to use it in the house!).

A bit of my idiosyncratic stuff:

- skull of sea gull
- dried shell of rainbow crab
- knitted Cthulhu (present from my friend)
- three perfectly round stones I found in mountain creek
- alabaster elephant from hundred years old pharmacy (from my grandmother)
- musket ball I found in forest
- a ton of strange books (including Holy Books of most main and some not-so-main religions)
- hand made tomahawk
- food supply for me, for one month, in french army rations