Another batch of cherry spatulas. People keep buying them, so I keep making them. Vox populi, vox pecuniae.

Saved the fun part for Friday afternoon.

Amid all the talk of index cards, here is how I keep my recipes… or rather receipts, to use the older term. A receipt is something received and therefore (by implication) given; a recipe is an algorithm to be followed slavishly. Receipts make me part of a human community; recipes make me a mechanical instrument.

So says I, anyhow.

It is a lovely box, I think. A good find.

Cooking up spoon butter in an old pickle jar. What do y’all use your old pickle jars for?

Times like this I wish I had a bigger workshop, so I could have twice as much clutter.

Just bought the version 2 suite of Affinity apps: Photo, Designer, and Publisher. I tend to be wary of upgrades but the apps have been so sensible in both design and pricing that I’m looking forward to seeing what’s new.

Apparently whatever else I can do, I am incapable of using a calendar. The Pirate Panther Princess will be published next Tuesday, December 6. (This is what happens maybe when you are trying to run two unrelated one-man businesses.)

Hey folks, my novel The Pirate Panther Princess comes out next Tuesday, December 6!

It will be available in a softcover edition via print-on-demand, but the first six chapters will be available free online, so you can preview before buying. I hope you’ll take a look next week!

At long last, the recipe for my famous fruitcake, for which people have been not asking for almost thirty years. 🍞