I talked last week about my efforts to get out more and refill my creative well. So, what did I learn from my experiment?
Day Two of my bread making course was great. I prepared a sour dough loaf for the oven, cooked a focaccia bread and prepared the dough for another sour dough bread, which I cooked at home. Since then, I’ve had a go at baking my own flavoured sour dough loaves – marmite and cheddar and the result was lovely. I felt so proud to have achieved the process from start to finish with my own sour dough starter too! I’ve even had a dream about different sour dough flavourings lol.
I wasn’t quite as successful in trying to replicate my wire wrapped pendant from my jewellery course, but I think that was caused by not having the correct wire. I’ve ordered some more so will try again this week.
The most valuable lesson from all of this was that I need to continue getting out and about more. If readers want to recommend anything new I should try in the comments, please do. I found that when I was more active, I got more done at home, writing more on my current work in progress novel and even starting to work on my family tree once more. We won’t talk about the two days lost to a horrible migraine.
I have also been rethinking this blog. My posts got so busy with guest authors that I didn’t reserve enough time for my own thoughts, so I want to balance this a little better going forward. However, if you are an author reading this and would like to book a guest slot here, please get in touch with me in the comments.
Today I’m off to a garden centre with a friend I have known for many years, but don’t see as often these days and tomorrow is Day Three of the bread course. For those who asked, the bread course is being run by The Doorstep Baker in Bewdley Worcestershire – link here. I’ll report back next week.
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Very sensible to make the most of your time in a more valuable way. Life ticks by. This Saturday I am trying a willow-structure making course at our local museum. Where we live in Italy, willow grows all along the banks of the river and we did have a full day with an elderly Italian friend who showed us how to make baskets. But I have forgotten how to do it already, although we have our baskets to show our efforts. I also appreciate your comment about having guests on your blogs… and thank you for allowing me to come on yours later. I shall reciprocate.
I also play tennis and love to walk – I can totally switch off playing tennis and walking helps me unravel my worries. I love that you are trying new things.
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Ooo looking forward to the pictures after your willow structure course!
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