If you saw my posts on firing our ‘medieval’ kiln this week, you might like to see the results. All are exact copies of original medieval tiles, made as authentically as possible from clays dug on the same site as the kiln, and using hand-carved wooden blocks. Aren’t they beautiful?

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“Sorry it took me a minute to get to the door; I have diarrhea” I explain to a family dressed as the Incredibles as I hand them little boxes of raisins

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happy halloween

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wistfully imagining a world in which the US and UK didn't overthrow the secular democratic government of Iran in 1953 to replace it with a brutal dictatorship at the request of an oil company facing nationalization because it was too racist and greedy to comply with an audit

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No matter how much we futz with the clock, the ultimate problem is that there just isn’t enough sun like November to April. The whole “daylight savings” argument was manufactured to keep us from asking the real question: why has science not figured out how to make the days longer year-round?

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