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Sausages enveloped in some kind of flatbread–baked inside a pastry shell or a bread roll, wrapped in pancakes, steamed in a yeasted dough or simply dipped in some kind of batter and fried–are somewhat universal. Sausage rolls featuring seasoned minced meat wrapped in pastry and baked are popular throughout the British Commonwealth, Ireland, Africa. Countries all over Europe have similar dishes–Wurstbrötchen in Germany, worstenbroodje in Belgium. Dumplings and other bready …

New title added to the Autumn 2024 list!Frontier Soldiers of New France examines the official and regulation dress, weapons and equipment of the regular colonial troops maintained by the French government in North America from 1683 to 1760, including unpublished information with a focus on new illustrations, line drawings, and photos of rare portraits and surviving artefacts from public and private collections.This volume is the first of a series of …

**Natasha Mac a'Bháird - The Tower Ghost: A Sycamore Hill Mystery - Published by O'Brien Press Ltd (1 April 2024)**Chapter 1: A New Beginning at Sycamore HillThe grand gates of Sycamore Hill Boarding School stood tall and welcoming as Clare nervously stepped onto the cobblestone path leading to her new home. The crisp Donegal air filled her lungs as she took in the sight of the ancient

LAST SUMMER, Bill McKibben wrote about a question he often hears from people worried about climate change: where should I live? McKibben acknowledges the privilege that accompanies such a query—a great many people have no ability to choose where to live, and must face whatever the climate throws at them wherever they happen to be. But it’s also not an unreasonable thing to consider. For those of us with the …

I started on a more systematic 2023 retrospective post, and found that a pretty significant amount of my 2023 centered on stuff I don't want to talk about on my blog. Feel free to ask …

Who are you, and what do you do? My name is Anthony, but most people probably know me as decryption, the online handle I've used for almost 3 decades now. I write about computers for a living! While I do a bit of freelance writing here and there, my main job is The Sizzle, a daily newsletter that goes out to 1,350 people daily who pay me to tell them …

Selection: And On The Third Day https://londonjazzcollector.files.wordpress.com/2023/07/michael-gibbs_and-on-the-third-day_mchael-gibbs_deram_sml1063_1970_ljc.mp3 . . . Track List: A1. Family Joy, Oh Boy!A2. Some Echoes, Some ShadowsA3. LiturgyA4. Feelings And Things B1. Sweet RainB2. NowhereB3. ThrobB4. And On The Third Day Artists Chris Spedding, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar; Brian Odges, Jack Bruce, bass guitar; Ken Goldy, Maurice Gee, Ray Premru, bass trombone; Alan Ford, Fred Alexander, cello; John Marshall, Tony Oxley, drums; Ray Russell, …

While the broth of Ultima Online was slowly thickening, not one but two other publishers beat EA and Origin Systems to the punch by releasing graphical persistent virtual worlds of their own. We owe it to them and to ourselves to have a look at these other POMG pioneers before we return to the more widely lauded one that was being built down in Texas. They were known as Meridian …

https://video.wixstatic.com/video/5897e0_fd46ef20406c4575b9cd464b8f6ab5be/1080p/mp4/file.mp4This is amazing. A photo of the "Vote for Genocide - Vote Labour" poster I designed was featured in the BBC Newsnight intro last night, right after a shot of Starmer getting into an SUV. Makes it look like an official Labour campaign lol. Delighted with that.

John Nelson’s One Style to Rule Them All is an ArcGIS Pro map style that applies fantasy map design elements to real-world geographic data. It does something similar to his earlier (2018) map style, My Precious (described here) only differently and with fewer assets (and 1/60th the download size). John has examples and links to a four-part video tutorial at this ArcGIS Blog post. Previously: Maps Middle-earth Style: By Hand …

Silently losing critical life infrastructure Published 2024-02-16 I’ve been having a pretty bad time recently. I don’t intend to talk about the details, but suffice it to say I’ve been extremely stressed, depressed, and anxious, and my appetite and sleep have completely fallen apart. This isn’t about that, not directly. It’s about some interesting things that this has revealed about my personal infrastructure for supporting my mental health. One piece …

This always makes me laugh, and it's one of those questions which just never stops appearing: just yesterday, someone said to me “I suppose you're off work now, until spring.” They must have realised, from the Look which I gave them, that they'd said the wrong thing, but they ploughed on, regardless: “I mean,” they said “there's nothing to do in the garden now, right?”Wrong.Oh, so wrong! To see the …

As I prevued images I shot in the past, it always works out that 90% of the time the ones that jump out at me are the ones with great light! Very often I go out in great light and look for subjects! I found these four recently when looking at a trip to Portland’s Japanese Garden’s work. Study the light and how they added to the texture and shapes …

For this post, I am going to wander into the world of crime in the late eighteenth century, and the grisly fate that befell many who committed the heinous crime of highway robbery. (Full disclosure: I’m not an historian of crime, gibbets or highwaymen…perhaps the case I’m about to discuss is very well known. But he’s new to me, and I love a good story, so he makes it into …

Sitting down to write your proposal for the 33 1/3 open call? Will Hagle, the author behind Madvillain’s Madvillainy, offers his advice for would-be authors keen to be part of the series. Here are his top three tips for writing your proposal. Hello,My name is Will Hagle and I am here on the 33 ⅓ blog to present three tips for submitting a proposal for Bloomsbury’s open call. Before I …