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2020-12-30

Seen yesterday, while gathering winter fuel (pine cones), a trio of Earth stars. First time I’ve seen them in the wild. There were oysters too, on downed pines, but not enough to bother gathering.

An earth star, a type of fungus, fleshy gray colour.

Seen yesterday, while gathering winter fuel (pine cones), a trio of Earth stars

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Seen yesterday, while gathering winter fuel (pine cones), a trio of Earth stars. First time I’ve seen them in the wild. There were oysters too, on downed pines, but not enough to bother gathering.

Bravo! One tip, especially if you have ...

Bravo! One tip, especially if you have a pizza stone (and you really should have one): put a piece of parchement paper or reusable baking paper under the pizza. It keeps the stone cleaner and makes getting it in and out with the peel easier.

Fantastic morning at the beach.

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Fantastic morning at the beach.

@lindsmiddleton Please keep feeding your website. Much ...

@lindsmiddleton Please keep feeding your website. Much nicer to read that than this.

@drhitchcocknz There's brid.gy that can do a ...

@drhitchcocknz There's brid.gy that can do a lot of the work of POSSE for you. I use @withknown, which has plugins for that, like the one that will send this reply to Twitter. Depends partially on whether you already have a web publishing tool set up.

Noted.

Noted.

Please Sir, What does hypeisis mean? The internet does ...

Please Sir,

What does hypeisis mean?

The internet does not know and keeps thinking I mean hypnosis, which I do not.

Thanks

Jeremy

A different kind of wreath.

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A different kind of wreath.

And so it begins, with one of three beef cheeks.

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And so it begins, with one of three beef cheeks.

Lunch, in Ronciglione, of a perfect cacio e pepe.

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Lunch, in Ronciglione, of a perfect cacio e pepe.

My kinda persimmon.

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My kinda persimmon.

Really good news. I would even be ...

Really good news. I would even be willing to transfer known.blog, which I have not been able to do anything with.

Inspired by @domenicacooks to attempt one of the great snacks of Naples (and Ischia, where we first came across them).

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Inspired by @domenicacooks to attempt one of the great snacks of Naples (and Ischia, where we first came across them).

Is there no way to stop the ...

Is there no way to stop the idiocy of having to prove I am a human when I try to use my phone to access a site “protected” by @cloudflare?

Lawks.

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Lawks.

I went to your site at https://simulacrum.party/, ...

I went to your site at https://simulacrum.party/, as advertised in your profile, to see what your interests might be, with a view to making a sensible suggestion. It returned a 404. So, you know, maybe tech is hard?

TGIF

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TGIF

Socially distant Santas at our local bar.

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Socially distant Santas at our local bar.