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August 26, 2025

At Signed Books Direct: not what I had planned, but…

With intense regret and annoyance, Signed Books Direct will be going “Sold Out / No Inventory Available”, and therefore unable to complete any sales, for the immediate future. The (apparent)…

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Published on August 26, 2025 09:28

January 12, 2025

Moving our food posts to a new home

Bringing order out of chaos, one recipe at a time: all our online household recipes are moving to a new home

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Published on January 12, 2025 08:46

August 14, 2024

The household crumpet recipe

The background The recipe The basic recipe for crumpets may possibly have originated in the English Midlands as a variant of the older pancakes and griddle breads that were already…

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Published on August 14, 2024 05:03

June 30, 2024

From the Ditching Adobe ASAP dep’t, a recommendation: Crazybump

People who’ve listened often enough to my rantings about digital art tools will know that I’ve been a Corel user for a couple of decades now ���maybe even a few?���and…

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Published on June 30, 2024 05:01

June 25, 2024

On Inventing a Romulan Language

A quick note about this entry: The material below initially appeared in my very first blog (hand-coded, every page of it…), “Homeward”, at our old owlsprings.com site. That domain���originally sited…

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Published on June 25, 2024 06:50

June 16, 2024

Bloomsday again

…that most meta of Irish holidays, and certainly the most Dublinesque. So on this special day only, the urban fantasy novella Herself is naturally free to download! You can download…

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Published on June 16, 2024 12:25

April 10, 2024

That flammkuchen recipe

Via Peter’s Tumblr: he kindly translated the original from the Betty Bossi Swiss baking cookbook for me. Alsatian tarte flamb��e This delicious speciality from Alsace is also ideal for an…

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Published on April 10, 2024 10:45

December 1, 2023

Bye Bye Birdie

ETA December 2023: I’ve revised this post a number of times since I first added it to OOA in November 2022. It started out with concern about what was happening…

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Published on December 01, 2023 01:06

November 1, 2023

The Young Wizards series turns 40

…And yes, we’re having a sale to celebrate. But that can wait. ���� I’m sitting here looking at the date and considering how amazing it is that, despite the changes…

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Published on November 01, 2023 10:22

August 24, 2023

Norwegian Butter Squares

Just posting this recipe here so that it can be found a little more readily. A tip of the virtual hat to the source on Tumblr, @locusimperium@locusimperium. The ones in…

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Published on August 24, 2023 23:02

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