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Further Adventures in Baking Bread
Baking is calming. Soothing. Taking flour, water, yeast and salt and making something edible from just these basic elements. It can feel like some sort of alchemy is being practiced. Eating some bread that you have just made… it can sound overdramatic but it is a magical feeling. Despite all of my efforts, I cannot claim to have had this feeling often. It is good to keep trying. A nice distraction from some of the other things in life. Winter I cannot claim to be a passionate baker. Far from it. It seems that winter brings the baker out in me. Well, the guy trying to be a baker. Especially…
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Making the Most of Doing Nothing
Operations are not something that you do every week and an inguinal hernia is not a major one. In fact, it’s very minor! Still, you are put to sleep and someone slices up your insides and then you wake up and feel like you have arrived on another planet. Which is the easy part. It is then a case of doing nothing. Recovering, effectively. And doing nothing is actually pretty challenging. Laying Around To be honest, I did not realise how much the operation would take out of me. I even thought I would go back to work the week afterwards. Which now seems incredibly deluded! Fortunately wiser heads than…
