Sarah and Alaric Snell-Pym living in interesting times
We are creating a new Category "Future Shock and Its Rot" to go along with things like Aethelflaed and All Things Anglo Saxon, Moon Mania and Beyond, and Ammonites and All Things Cephalopod. These are categories that define specific topics of research or longer form projects such as poetry collections. Topics written about in these […]
Today! Thursday May 7th 2026 7 pm doors for a 7:30 pm start Pay what you want The Folk of Gloucester 99-103 Westgate Street (just down from the Cathedral) Gloucester Gloucestershire GL1 2PG Fiona is amazing - I really loved the story walk she did for use a few years ago. The Gloucester StoryTelling Cafe […]
It's been just over a year since I found out I was deaf and had always been deaf to some extent. I went because my hearing had gotten worse - it often gets worse when I have colds etc... and then goes back again except I had covid and then covid and more covid and […]
My left hand isnot behaving at the moment but we have resurrected Mocktales - this was our fortnightly writing night we just did in the house and invited people to join us so especially with NanoWrimo being no more we decided it was time to bring it back properly. So far we have mainly been […]
So, I've been thinking about data. I'm going to explain my thoughts with enough background so that non-programmers should be able to follow along, but don't worry - I won't be going on huge tangents with basic tutorials, so if you already know everything about pointers in C and SQL databases, you can just skim […]
Or Taking the Long Way Round A conversation with our youngest, who is 14 years old, came up recently when we were talking about taking buses to and from school. Mary was under the illusion that I had not taken busses when I was at school and I was like "oh no I started off […]
Equipment Knife for chopping veg Chopping board Large hob safe cassarole dish or pan or a crock pot. With adaption it can easily be cooked in an over or slow cooker as well. Oven gloves or mitts or heat proof cloth (Sarah here - ok so I also bought us knew halloween/autumn oven gloves but […]
A few years ago I created Boodles - initially as a thing just for us in our extended hell scape of lock down and on going medical emergencies afterwards. Last year I decided I would share them after a friend said they found Inktober and the draw a whole thing every day too intense and […]
Its a weird time out there at the moment and as I think I mentioned before I have found it hard working on The Punk Universe in recent years as the point at which our actual timeline and the fictional timeline were supposed to diverge into a slow multi origin apocalypse/societal collapse was Britian leaving […]
Developing user interfaces to software systems is incredibly rewarding. If your software system has a user interface at all - and most do, even if it's just for service engineers - then interacting with a human is, presumably, part of its function. And since humans generally pay the bills or otherwise reward and motivate the […]