Diane Duane's Blog: Out of Ambit

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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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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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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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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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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…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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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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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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…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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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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