Just flyin' the flag

I have a new icon! Courtesy of shewhomust, behold the flag of the British Empire, Steampunk!Mars style...

I probably need one of these

Amazon is selling a mug showing one of the canals on Mars.

This is relevant to my interests.

(I was actually looking for editions of Percival Lowell's books, but I got sidetracked...)

A question! Of Dutchness!

Does anybody happen to know what the Dutch word for the Dutch language is? (I am finding autotranslation sites ... unhelpful. They keep giving me Dutch-the-adjective, rather than Dutch-the-language.)

It's not all awful, y'know. In case you were wondering.

Yet one more of these gorgeous hot and sunny days - hellbelow, will this nightmare never end? It's as if the very weather conspired to make me happy! - and I am sitting here with a glass of Old Rasputin Imperial Stout and a tapas-plate of chicken livers and bread fried in bacon grease, working unhurriedly on Human Engines while I wait for my wife to come home. In the meantime, I have roasted some chopped apple in sugar and cinnamon and set a slow dough to rise overnight. Come morning, I will combine them - with some pecans, mayhap - and bake a bread of it.