Another stretch of the river walked today - up to Sawbridgeworth, the next town up from us. After 10 miles yesterday, and 3 already done this morning going to and from the supermarket, my legs were feeling it a bit by the time we got back from this one! On the other hand it feels really good to be able to happily go out and walk this far now - the “time on feet” will undoubtedly benefit my running as well.
Handily my new bread proving basket arrived yesterday so I was able to use it for proving this week’s sourdough loaf ve right. Less handily I need more practise getting the right amount of flour in the basket - as the dough stuck, and then the loaf “pancaked” when I finally managed to tip it out. Next time MORE flour! Definitely looks more the part though with the characteristic sourdough ridges from the basket, and more importantly still it tastes bloody amazing! If I get nothing else from the lockdown experience, finally getting a sourdough starter going and learning to make wonderful tasting loaves of undoubtedly my favourite bread definitely counts as a win!
On the Covid-19 front, non essential shops have now reopened in England - with the entirely expected massive queues at places like Primark. In England single people living alone can now link up with another household in a social “bubble” as the toll on mental health that having so little company for the last three months has wreaked on so many has been recognised. Scotland have now followed suit on this one too. In England we are still generally limited to meeting in maximum groups of 6, and only outside - in Scotland this is up to a maximum of 8, but they may only be from two households. We are still unsure whether things will have been relaxed sufficiently to allow us to travel to the Hebrides in a couple of months - if things happen on time it looks likely that in theory at least we would be OK to go - in practise though we will have to wait and see if the Islands are comfortable with visitors by that stage.
Robyn
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