It’s been a while since I last posted. Thinking back to those now distant days of lockdown when there were bigger spaces of time to sit and write compared to now, when there’s more happening to potentially write about but that means less time and with it the discipline to […]
Part One For a birthday treat this year I booked myself a night in Bath. The main objective was to visit the spa; as well as sightseeing and just enjoying some time off work. I visited Bath for a day trip a few years ago and found my way to […]
Pizza. Homemade bread. Homemade cake. The moments in long runs when you’re so in the flow that you’ve forgotten then remember that you’re running. Running, even when it sucks. A hot shower after a cold run. A hot chocolate after a cold run. Coffee. Reading in coffee shops with just […]
Having a socially demanding job. Agreeing to cover extra classes. Two. Back to back. Unfamiliar people in a place I haven’t taught at before. Finishing around my usual bedtime on the evening before my early Thursday morning Body Balance class. During the week of my low hormone phase meaning fatigue […]
Following the success of the Saturday white loaf the following weekend I started on the the pizza recipes. In the book I’m working from all the bread recipes start with 1,000g of flour. That’s double what I had previously worked with and, as I mentioned last time, enough for two […]
Over the last few years I’ve built up a reasonably steady routine of baking sourdough bread most weekends. There have been a LOT of dud loaves in the past but for the last year or two they have been more consistently good, but, still not quite as nice as the […]