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In December 2024, I watched this video about how to make a realistic vegan turkey: And there was nothing else I wanted to make for Christmas 2025.

Originally posted to Facebook in September 2025, but I keep going back to reread it and get excited again, so thought I’d save it for posterity.

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To prove how much of a nerd I am, here is a photo of the only time Pope Benedict XVI wore a papal fanon in public.

Daniel Ladinsky (not Hafiz) Please note that Daniel Ladinsky produced several books of “translations” of Hafiz, a 14th century Persian Sufi poet, but scholars of Hafiz concluded that he has essentially written his own poetry and just said they were transl…

Two years ago, I had covid for the third time.

Darren Carvill is now known to the world for serial fraud and embezzlement with multiple convictions and is now serving a three year prison sentence for fraud.

I asked ChatGPT for a hot grape punch drink recipe for a Bonfire Night I was holding as a I hate mulled wine but love the concept and wanted something similar everyone could drink, as we had children, nursing mothers and drivers in the crew.

Edward VI – Aged 10 Edward VI, King of England (1537-1553) was the only legitimate son of Henry VIII, who broke away from the Catholic Church in order to obtain a divorce from his wife after twenty years of marriage had produced only one daughter, later M…

Originally published in The Pickle at Vashti Media on 23rd February, 2023.