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A few years ago, I wrote my own service monitoring system for my
servers and networks; I did this because Nagios, the common choice,
was just too complicated for my tastes and didn't cleanly fit my
needs. And so, The Eye of Horus was born, and has been monitoring my
servers ever since. I open-sourced it, but I've not [...]
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I thought I'd just do a little catch up on the girls - Mary is walking, saying Mumma, hitting people because she is teething, keeps trying to dress herself, when that fails she brings the cloths to me to dress her then once dressed she gets her shoes and tries to push the pushchair over [...]
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This is our first batch of cake pops - made as a family for a delayed May Day celebration.
I had wanted to get this machine at christmas but with house moving and stuff I couldn't.
We all had fun making the cake pops
I think they looked good [...]
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So I have had my eye on a cake pop machine since before christmas and have bought one for basically £20 from lakeland as the amount of ideas I am having for them means I can't sleep and Jeany wants a darleck cake for her birthday so I would have to get one then!
But I [...]
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I have two thirds of the funding I need for phase on of Science-Art for all. It would be great to get that last bit of money in the pot so I start work on the project.
Also I am working hard on getting Ballads of the Scientifica in all of its forms ready. [...]
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Yep another song/poem thingy.
Flowing by Saffy
This one is about war.
Incase your wondering I am at the moment trying to finish off all those projects I have going and am working my way through note books etc... so there is likely to be a few more. Feed back welcomed.
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I've worked out how to embed the songs now so here goes
Shy by Sarah Snell-Pym
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This post is about inspiration and following dreams and what I consider good fiction writing. However before I begin let me just say that I don't believe gender has anything to do with someone being a good writer - but this post is about females and their perceived place in literature.
Now I have always [...]
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Monday mornings are my child free time so that is when the main creativity activity occurs - this isn't the most creative time but more the time in which I can complete projects and bring ideas finally to bear fruit.
Yesterday I recorded what I envision as a sound track to a shot visual video - [...]
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Yesterday I went to The Battle For The Winds Episode One in Stroud, I had won a bronze medal for my song Windy Gloucestershire. This was part of the creative Olympics and also saw the launch of the Wind Vessel which will be in Cheltenham for the Torch and then will be going on [...]
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Last week saw the Cheltenham Poetry Festival.
I started off by going to see Domestic Cherry - so funny. It was Michael Scott and Hilda Sheechan in the personas of a Swidon Chav and a hyper kitch Housewife.
The I headed out to dinner with one of the stewards and then onto Slak Bar to see [...]
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Back in the Dark Ages, keyboards were simple devices. Putting too much processing power in them would raise the cost unacceptably; they were kept as simple devices that told the host computer when buttons were pressed and released, and the host computer had the job of converting that into meaningful information such as entered data [...]
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Last Saturday, I came down with what I suspect was Norovirus - the rest of the family (apart from the baby) having come down with it on Thursday and me having spent the past few days mopping up after them, this was probably unavoidable; although I'd tried my best by wearing a respirator when performing [...]
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I have made a short film about the creation of the Muse Monsters from my Monster Writing Game - they turn out to have a complex belief system - some of which is portrayed in this video. Also I like the effect I got with a bamboo flute I picked up a few years [...]
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For the first time since I had Jean really, I am starting to be excited about my future and to see something like a career forming. I am not forcing anything, I am not planning or going down approved routes - I am just going with the flow.
I am creating... well STUFF, art, craft, [...]
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Back when I was about 13 I joined a choir/singing group based at Upminster Methodist church - this would have been in the mid 90's I suppose. We primarily did religous musicals like Witness. I just find myself wondering where everybody is these days and what they have been up too.
I am really [...]
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Monday saw me and Alaric in a Chapel within the Campus of the University of Gloucestershire. We were going to the book launch of Communion a beautiful work of stark images and deeply bleak words.
My friend Anna Saunders had written those words and as always her work was hard hitting and brought forth those [...]
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Friday it all started with the arrival of the alien shroom
a.k.a. my father or Ferfer as he is better known. This was accompanied by the rest of my family as in my mum.
My bro and his wife all of whom got family snuggles
Jean had been preparing treats for the last few [...]
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This is Jean getting ready for her dancing at the Stroud Dance Festival. She did really well though had to sit out one of the dances due to feeling sick towards the end - it was very hot in the hall and the kids were doing A LOT of dancing.
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I've spent more time building infrastructure than using it, I suspect. I love building infrastructure, so I've often built it because I can; however, with everything that's happened in the past six years, I've ended up struggling to maintain the infrastructure I already had. So I've had to change tack and become much more pragmatic [...]
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On March 30th I headed to Oxford to read some of my up coming collection Political Converse. Earlier that day I died my hair what was supposed to be purple - it came out not but that didn't matter. I had a weekend then week then month of readings and workshops, it was [...]
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My five commandments (in response to the author Anne Rice's question on Facebook)
Love all including yourself
cause the least possible harm
think for yourself
listen to others but make up your own mind
Do not be wasteful
What I found interesting was that many people just rehashed the biblical code with no thought as to the [...]
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My six year old daughter has a spelling age that is the same as I had at 18. Though my vocabulary has always been massive as in exceeded what is expected for an average adult in the UK in primary school.
I am obsessed with reading and learning things though I still do not have [...]
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I took the day off of work on my birthday, to do something I'd been dying to do since we moved in - get my workshop set up to a state where I can actually use it.
To begin with, I had a load of things to put away. The floor was covered in boxes that [...]
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Friday I went off to Not The Oxford Literature Festival were I read out stuff from an upcoming collection called Political Converse including the song Shit Creek.
I gave out my new business cards which I am very happy with from Moo. Each card has a different picture on either of my art work, photos [...]
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I'm off to Oxford tonight for The Not The Oxford Literary Festival at the Albion Betnik. This marks the beginning of a hectic and creative few weeks for me.
Tonight I perform political pieces such as my No Wage Slave poem and Shit Creek song.
I decided as part of this I needed to re-dye my [...]
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Last night we went for a walk with the kids, we were playing eye spy - as any parent will know eye spy with kids is always interesting
We spent ages trying to guess what began with H and falls off of trees and is a seed with spiky bits (we allow glues if [...]
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Mary has finally walked on her own She has been able to walk for ages but just wouldn't - she always had to hold a finger or use the pink truck walker thing my friend gave us.
Of course she is now walking into things and has bruises on her head :/ She has also [...]
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Science-Art - sponsor me/give me crowd funding have a little read to see what I am upto and what I need money for!
Ok so as many of you know I did a piece of 3D textural science-art for the exhibition In Braille at Centre Arts last year. I have since been asked to do [...]
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Mothers Day was lovely - I received three cards! One from Jean with a painted cat upon it One from Mary with a very similar felt tip pen cat, glittery stickers showing things like camp fires and tents, and lots of scribble, and one from Alaric saying thankyou for making my dream [...]
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Ok so this Dudette who I keep bumping into at poetry things at Wychwood, The Cheltenham Science Festival (Slam the Atom), Art Tournament and the like is in Japan sharing Welsh culture in the form of a modern telling of traditional welsh stories!
She is from Cardiff (if I remember correctly) which always makes me homesick [...]
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I host a heap of web sites (including this blog), email domains, source control repositories, mailing lists, and various other things (such as one of the official Chicken Scheme egg mirrors, a Jabber server, and an IRC server with bots). I do this with a combination of dedicated server hardware which I hire space, power, [...]
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So we have reached the end of National Science and Engineering Week - I have had fun following things on twitter and the like - but also seriously talking to gallery owners about putting on a Science Art Exhibition for next year.
I would also like to see more local event - I could find nothing [...]
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I thought I would just re-high light this collection of which I am part with my poems Where Are You?
The Higgs Boson Anthology
Here is a spoken version of the poem:
Higgs Boson What and Where Are You? by Sarah Snell-Pym
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The lyrics are wrong and Jean forgot what she was doing and it was filmed before we moved but I thought it fitted with the National Science and Engineering theme I was going for with this weeks posts - so here is what is essentially an outtake of a science song for kids I am [...]
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Today is Pi Day as well as Albert Einstien's Birthday so I thought I would combine the two for a piece of science-art for National Science and Engineering Week
It's not the best drawing in the world - it is basically a concept sketch and was done in a note book on my lap [...]
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Todays science-art is an album of science and tech poetry, a possible life origins story and the song I Want To Know Everything. It is available as a free download for the remainder of the week
Enjoy
Ballads of the Scientifica by Sarah Snell-Pym
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It is National Science and Engineering Week here in the UK, this marks a festive sort of atmosphere in the science and tech communities where they try and reach out to the general public and show them just how much science, engineering and maths does for them, how exciting it is and what the future [...]
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So we are on a strict budget for the house - so we went to the charity shop to get a sofa bed... we ended up with an electric organ - a Hammond with Liesel Chorus and stuff!
Alaric is as ecstatic as me and Jeany is really excited and Mary has discovered foot pedals!
Alaric says [...]
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Ok, I'm starting to get annoyed with British Gas, so it's time for a RANT.
When we moved into the new home, it had prepayment meters for gas and electricity. For those not familiar, these are meters where, rather than having your meters read and being billed on what you have used, you have to take [...]
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Jean's school are having their World Book Day celebrations today and this year Jean decided to go as a dinosaur from Harry and His Bucket of Dinosaurs. She loves these books - we met the author last year at Wychwood Festival and she got a signed copy of one of his more recent books [...]
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I have produced an audio book which I am selling to raise money to buy books for Jean's School Library (they get the profit). The disc contains The Little Book of Easter Poetry, The Little Chicken Song and the story Ester Rabbit - there is even me playing the recorder It costs [...]
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Today Jean is going to school with her home made poetry book - she has written and illustrated the poems herself as part of this months WoPoWriMo challenge (World Poetry Writing Month). She is nervous and excited and asked me yesterday if I would make her an outfit if she gets through!
The poems are [...]
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This Sunday the 4th of March at Gloucester New Inn there is the monthly arty chill which I have been attending to read my works poetic. This Sunday however is slightly different as they are running a competition for Gloucestershires Poet Laureate. The first phase of which is audience votes so I would [...]
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There is a fantastic vista tonight - the moon is out with two bright 'stars' - these are the planets Venus and Jupiter and earlier tonight the International Space Station passed by also bright and lovely. So I thought I'd try and photograph the planets and moon as I found the fireworks mode on [...]
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The NHS is in distress
As politicians make it an even bigger mess
Sneaking in private sector competition
Erosion of the health service is their mission
Drs who say, 'hang on a mo!'
Are told they will have to go
Such cost cutting measures
Will kill this most auspicous of national treasures
Lets hope the politicians stop
Before this nation is left to rot
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Is a Computer Science degree useful for people who want to have a career in software development? Many who work in the field come from physics, maths, or electrical engineering degrees, and do perfectly well. There's a widespread feeling that the concepts taught on computer science degrees, such as formal logic, proving the correctness of [...]
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I have been seeing some highly disturbing news reports lately about people being forced to work or having their benefits cut - the issue being that they are not actually being offered jobs but are being put on work experience in places like Tesco and Poundland. Then it turns out that the changes currently [...]
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SO I've had this idea of making Alaric pose as Gotye for photos but then this week I've had my younger cousins staying and the result is that we made a video of it!
It is a spoof of this Gotye song with elements of this cover by Walk Off The Earth. It [...]
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This last week has been quiet busy for me as far as my 'work' is concerned. First off I had a meeting on Saturday about taking part in another art exhibition like In Braille with Centre Arts in order to raise many for the visually impaired. I'm aiming for another piece of three dimensional [...]
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Many years ago, around 2000, I formed a limited company. A bunch of us wanted to rent a rack in a data centre and host our servers there, and it seemed wise to have a separate legal entity to sign the contract with the ISP for the rack.
This cost me some money here and there [...]
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I hate moving house. It's a lot of work, for a start. It's a period during which all your stuff is packed away so you have to make do continually. And you have to tear apart the home you spent years building, while remembering all the fun times you had in the cold, empty, rooms [...]
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This year's going to be pretty busy with settling into the new home, but I have a few projects.
Finish the ring casting I nearly finished before the move. That's a priority.
Resurrect my aluminium foundry. In particular, it's our bronze wedding anniversary, so Sarah's going to design a pattern for a sundial, which I will cast [...]
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Mary has been imitating sounds for months but as expected of a bilingual baby she hasn't really produced words with meaning they are just copies of what we are saying. She like Jean has been raised with baby sign as well so there is no real incentive to talk early.
But as we home in on [...]
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Sometimes I do find myself wondering what would have happened if Alaric hadn't given up the syntherziser and focused on just programming or had taken it back up instead of metal work - as it is he is talking about maybe getting one for the music room when we have more money/one comes up on [...]
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So we have finally achieved the third M = Mortgage which I suppose makes us proper grown-ups or something?
It is not what we had envisioned with the move to Gloucestershire but those plans weren't working anyway and this house seems like it was almost made with us in mind. It is everything we need.
There [...]
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This is a video of me reading The Little Book of Festive Poetry which I wrote a few years ago as part of the PiBoIdMo challenge. I was asked to read at The Brewery Cheltenham as part of a fund raiser for Winstons' Wish organised by Cheltenham Poetry Festival.
In the video Jean is inching [...]
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(Typed up by mummy - spellings are mummy's version of spelling some of which is still wrong - grammer has not been touched)
Lucy Has The Most Wonderful Dreams
Tuesday 1st of November
I saw a rabbit I walked up to it but when I walked up to it I saw something glowing in it's hand I snugged [...]
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A friend has asked me to cast her some silver wedding rings. So I am adapting my aluminium casting experience to silver...
The thing to use for silver moulds is cuttlefish bone, which is soft enough to easily carve into shapes, but can withstand the heat of molten silver. For a single pour, at any rate.
In [...]
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I knitted the bandage - it was supposed to be red bobbles on white but was a nightmare to knit and hasn't come out exactly how I imagined but Jean is over the moon with it and as a first attempt at bobbles I think it's great
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We are currently awaiting info from the vet having approved an operation to wire Hydrogen jaw up and to remove maggots from her feet.
As some of you know she has been missing for 3 weeks now and we have been searching high and low for her. Today - the day Alaric took the car [...]
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It be that time of year again when all the nut balls come out of hiding! That's right it's NaNoWriMo time again - at the witching hour on this All Hallows Eve a bizar and eclectic ritual will take place - writers will begin typing, scrawling or dictating in ernest in the hope that this [...]
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At the Bristol Hackspace this evening, I powered up a Hall sensor.
The Allegro A1321 takes a 5v supply and outputs 2.5v - plus or minus 5mV per gauss of magnetic field in the sensor.
It turned out that small magnets don't produce many gauss, so I added a 741 op-amp with a gain of about 100 [...]
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This is what I have spent my child free morning on :/
Click on the images if you want to see them larger.
They are for a Halloween art exhibit at Center Arts.
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Mary loves textures and manipulating things with her hands - she can't put the rings back on the pole yet but she loves tipping them off or lifting them one at a time and playing with the rings.
We also have film night once a week and this is a cute pic of her sitting on [...]
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This is a photo from last winter - I just really thought I should share these fantastic icicles!
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I found this cute picture of Jean holding the guinea pigs. They are sadly no more but were well loved whilst we had them.
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When I was a child, I had a lot of technical books lying around. My grandmother was a science teacher and my grandfather was an engineer, and lots of their old books lined my shelves. And alongside them, I had a lot of science fiction, too. And from all this, I learnt that technology could [...]
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My Brother is getting married next month so the last two weekends have seen the stage and hen dos! I am still awaiting Alaric to post about the stage
For the Hen Do we went to a hotel in London for a Murder Mystery Event involving Professor Bugle, Flossy the maid and Lady "Rochy", [...]
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The day started with tidying and doing housework, feeding childs and the like, then Al put me on the insurance for the car as my provisional license came through last Saturday. Then he took me to an art class at Centre Arts - it was about drawing with your right hemisphere, whilst he went [...]
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So we have to move and we have been trying to sort it out and get a mortgage and what not which is somehow taking up most of the time we had spare.
But we have found a house we want - my only issue with it is it doesn't have enough grass but it is [...]
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On the back of my neck for years there has been this little bump for years I think it may even predate Jean - it got investigated as a potential for some some of my back pain a few years ago but they decided it was just a fatty lump I think they are called [...]
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Warning - icky 'womens' stuff
I had the coil fitted to try and stop the bleeding and it got worse but then eight days ago it stopped I was however having problems with the thread stabbing me - the dr tucked it all back up again but due to the separated pelvis can't show me [...]
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Mary sat up all by her self from laying completely flat and then proceeded to tip the crib over - off course I had things set up so that the only place for her to fall was straight out onto the bed. But this ment Saturday saw an exhorsted Daddy, Mummy and Ferfer trying [...]
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As of last night Mary has a tooth
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Tomorrow Saturday 24th September 2011 sees the Exhibition in Braille a touchy feely art attraction set up by Centre Arts to raise money for the Gloucester County Association for the Blind. Tickets cost £5 and are avaliable at the doors which are open 12-7pm.
There are some really cool things there for you to touch and [...]
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Wednesday Jean made her promise at the picnic tree in Cranham Woods and became a Beaver Scout - this is something she has been going on and on about ever since she was 3 yrs old!
She did very well and the District Commissioner already knew who she was because she had been so 'helpful' during [...]
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In The Lord of the Flies, the children (marooned on an island and working out how to organise themselves to survive) develop a technique for managing debate: they use a conch shell as a token to represent who currently holds the floor. Without the conch, you can't talk; you have to wait your turn.
Cut to [...]
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So it is a year since I decided to actually learn the guitar properlly and to practice each day rather than having a guitar sitting there gathering dust with like three strings on it - on which I could pluck (when it had all the strings obviously) the intro to Nothing Else Matters and play [...]
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Yep seven months on and I'm still bleeding - doubling the hormone tablets didn't work so they suggested the Mirina coil which I had fitted about two weeks ago - it was horrible and ouchy and then cramps had me wacked for the rest of that day.
And... well the bleedings gotten worse - I'm still [...]
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September has snuck up on me and sees me papier mache-ing like a mad thing - my aim? To create a piece of textural science art for the visually impaired and the blind.
This piece of art work does not just involve papier mache though - it involves knitting, sewing, clay sculpting, sugru, polymer clay, [...]
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So yesterday Alaric picked me and the girls up in his lunch break and dropped us off in Gloucester at the nearest he could to the City Museum. I had a crutch shoved in the basket and handle and limped my way painfully and slowely to the museum with Jean chatting. We went [...]
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Saturday ie tomorrow I will be doing a quick poetry reading in the Waterstones in Cheltenham with some fantastic other poets (it's a quick one as I'm running away to a family wedding!). This event is organised by the Cheltenham Poetry Festival who have been putting on some fantastic events through out the year. [...]
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As some of you know Mum had an accident where her mobility scooter went backwards down a slope and crashed into a kirb. She fell scooter and all - I saw the horror on her face and got dad to hand me the baby so he could go to her. Jeany run up [...]
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You may or may not have noticed a dirth of posts and onlineness from me - this is due to a slight no computer issue But I've got a temporary solution currently!
So what shall I be upto in August? Well like the rest of the summer so far it will be full of craft [...]
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It's widely held that it's a scary experience for somebody to tell
their parents that they are gay. As a parent, therefore, I began to
wonder how I could arrange it so that, if any of my children turn out
to be gay, they could be spared any distress in telling us about it.
I surmised that the distress [...]
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I've been reading a book lately called "The Brain that Changes
Itself", which discusses a once-controversial theory that the adult
brain can rewire itself in the same manner as the developing brain,
with the main difference being that it just requires more effort to
focus the attention. It used to be believed that once the brain had
finished developing, its [...]
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Alaric has had a bad back for months - he thought he'd initially just strained it but it has gone on and on - from home he was reacting I thought it might be a slip disc as I had similar problems when I had one.
He finially went to the Drs with it again - [...]
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I realise that I never did blog about what happened at the Drs after the whole abulence thing - well I had to go to the hospital where they took a biopsy and examined me and their conclusion was that it was actually my hormone levels and the mega bleeds had coincided with mammoth all [...]
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Looking at what I have achieved since the New Year I have decided that June's challenges are going to be a Finishing Projects Month and a Game Design Month.
FiPoMo and GeDeMo - I did a GeDeMo last year which worked really well and I got a beta version of a card game I use for [...]
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Currently, you can go to various providers and buy online storage capacity (IMHO, rsync.net is best, after research I did to find an offsite backup host for work). It's more expensive than a hard disk in your computer, and miles slower, but it has one brilliant advantage: it's remote. So it's perfect for backups.
And that's [...]
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Mary is coming up to 4 months but was three when the picture was taken - she is belly laughing, attempting to sing along with me and Jean and looking round at the world in interest. She will remain sitting up if you put her in that position and if place on her front [...]
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So I had stopped bleeding for about 2 weeks with just a little bit of 'marking' every few days and then I started what I again thought was a period and it was ok for a couple of days and then Mary had a hungry night and fed and fed and fed (breast). But [...]
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Mary is only 3 1/2 months old and I am weaning her - I started by letting her just taste things at about 3 months because she would squeak angrily when we were eating - screwing her little face up and looking like a red Donald Duck. But because World Health Organisation recommends just [...]
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I live near Cheltenham and that town has some very good poetry nights etc... so Friday saw be going along to Slak Bar to an open mic at Earshot (probably my favourite poetry night). But this time it was opened up so that the open mic included acoustic so I thought I'd take my [...]
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Pondering Bitcoin, I recently opined:
Who sets the difficulty of the puzzle and all that? The computers in the network do - when the system was created, rules were agreed, and written into the software. As everyone runs software following those rules, anybody solving easier puzzles or trying to award themselves more bounty for doing so [...]
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When I was about 11, I designed a garden. I remember drawing a plan of it on a page of my spiralbound notepad. Sadly, that means the original design is now long gone, but that's irrelevant - the original design assumed a plot of land the exact same shape as a page of my notepad, [...]
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My recent thoughts about bitcoin reminded me of earlier thoughts I'd had about digital currency.
Cryptographic digital currency is a way of transferring value without trusted third parties being involved in every transaction, but within a closed domain, it's easier to go for a trusted party and cut out all the crypto maths. Which is why [...]
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