Posted inCheesecake Cooking & Baking
Passionfruit Powder Perfection
Well, it's spring and the chickens here have ramped up egg production to the point where I almost need to be making more cheesecakes just to keep on top of…
Posted inReading
A long time ago in a bookshop far, far away…
Some of the oldest possessions I've got are books. Sometimes, like the Ship of Theseus, they're copies of books many times removed - I'm on my fourth copy of Good…
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Warning! Reading can be bad for you!
On the 18th January 2026, Winnie the Pooh turned 100. Quite incredible, really, that a bear of very little brain should have such a long-lasting place in the collective memory…
Posted inRPGs
Where Do You Get Your Great Ideas?
This week, one for the Dungeon Masters/Games Masters/Keepers/whatever your game happens to call it. Fair warning, this doesn't work for all roleplaying games. It's not great for dungeon crawls (whether…
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The Great January Reading Reset
Got to make a start on organising things this year. Prioritising. Making sure stuff gets read. And that means tackling the TBR pile. And that's scary.
Posted inEducation
Oh, Good. There’s a Tiger Behind Door 3
The way I see it, we've 2 potential futures ahead of us. Behind door 1 is The Terminator future. Rise of the machines. Technology going from being our slave to being our master. And there's plenty of other examples of this in dystopian fiction. On the other hand, we've door 2. Behind door 2 is the Star Trek future. The protopian future...