Best bread

The last batch of bread of the year is now in the airing cupboard, weighing in at a record breaking 5lbs 8.5oz, compared with a nominal 5lbs 7oz. It usually varies up to about half an ounce either way - kitchen scales not being precision instruments - but never as much as this before, in all 395 batches so far, all the way back to the beginning of 2011 when bad back brought cycling to Cheam to an end.

But very steady as regards batch rate, as can be seen from the line graph from the breadsheet snipped left. With the odd kinks sometimes corresponding with the two week summer breaks.

A record breaking morning also in that it is very cold, with the sharpest frost yet. To the point where the lid of the compost dustbin had frozen on, making its lifting with one hand difficult - with the other hand holding a collander full of hot boiled bones and stuff, the last vestiges of the Christmas chicken.

PS: I note in passing that the breadsheet lives in a Dropbox public folder, with Dropbox having served notice just before Christmas that public folders are being withdrawn, effective some point in the year to come. New Year's resolution to organise withdrawal from same indicated. A project for the first half year.