Hello from Cambridgeshire, UK

Hello ladies and gents, have been lurking here for a wee while and just want to say a big thanks for all the fabby info, recipes and tips that can be found here - it's been seriously enlightening. And very helpful.

I live really rural here in deepest, darkest Cambridgeshire and I started baking bread a couple of months ago after miscalculating quantities in a grocery shop. Didn't fancy a 10 mile round trip just for bread so thought I'd give baking some a whirl. I'm normally found making cakes, biscuits and Lebkuchen to fundraise for Cats Protection (aided and abetted by my two feline assistants), so baking per se isn't alien. Managed to pull off a fairly basic loaf - and quickly realized that what I turn out, no matter how flat, cracked or wonky, tastes far better than just about anything I can buy out here...

Seeing some of the things you folks turn out has been an inspiration to try even harder and strive to make the best bread I can. This was Wednesday's bake - a double quantity of Karin's German Feinbrot. Seriously tasty. Did one in a loaf tin as I only have a single banneton...

Bests,

Witty.

P.S. The cinnamon, raisin & oatmeal bread is also *horribly* addictive... ;-)