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Reasons to be cheerful 2022

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    We (by that I mean I) make our own bread, and it's lovely ... but I never dared make a Tiger bloomer ... I'd be the size of several houses ..........  :o

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    One problem with home made bread is that it doesn't keep as long before going stale.  The next problem with home made bread is that you feel the need to eat it all before it goes stale, after all there's no sense in going to all that effort and not eating it. :D
    Many years ago there was a great bakery in town.  My dad used to go there every Saturday to get a cottage loaf.  More often than not it was an empty shell by the time he got back home on the bus.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Make two small loaves and freeze one so that you can't get at it so easily.
    I found that I ate more when I first started making it but now it's just bread rather than a treat.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I probably bake a loaf every four or five days ... it doesn't stay fresh for long but it makes marvellous toast  :D

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I'd look like that big blimp/Michelin man in Ghostbusters if I started making bread - I'd always be  'kneading' to eat it....  ;)

    It's also the reason I rarely bake nowadays. I can easily polish off a teabread or a load of scones in short shrift.  :(
    RTBC today is that the white tailed blackbird has finally discovered how to get herself into the little ground feeder. It's slightly enclosed with branches etc to keep the bigger birds out. She looked a bit chilly sitting on the snowy shed roof though. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Years ago we were on holiday in Canada and stayed for a couple of days in a B&B in Vancouver.  Waking up to the smell of freshly baked bread was wonderful.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    my RTBC is having just watch Top Gear Christmas special
    Devon.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    my RTBC was just meandering in a big SM and then two GCs today, first time for months.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    pansyface said:
    😱

    Never mind that, what if they had met someone coming the other way?
    towing a caravan
    Devon.
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