I'm touched that you were concerned about the buddy
And thank you both for the cheeses!
Sadly, the oven paper did not seem to be helping keep in any moisture, and the buddy showed no signs of softening up at all. I came home one day to find my son had cut it open and had some toasted on a bagel
The bit that was left was too sad to take a photo of.
It was quite nice, he said, but definitely Not A Camembert
and he was right. The rest of it went on a pizza.
I made a second attempt, this time more or less following the recipe for Malembert; they're now sitting in a container in the cold fridge, nekkid apart from their pretty white coats. I put a little pot of water in the container to try and keep humidity up, but so far they still seem pretty solid. There's a while to go yet, though - maybe they'll do their stuff by Christmas.
I live in hope.