Side effects

I think the fourth pill, taken up with fanfare at reference 1, may be having some side effects after all.

Up bright and early to make the 482nd batch of bread, I got the apron on before I realised that I did not have enough white flour of the right sort. Hitherto I had always kept a close enough eye on flour stocks and this is the very first time that such a thing has happened. Maybe the brain had been confused by the presence of the stuff from the windmill, noticed at reference 2. Plenty of wholemeal flour of the right sort, but bread made with a lot of it is pretty grim: don't want to go much over 25% if you actually want to eat the resultant bread.

So there were three options. Make up the weight of white flour with some of the wrong stuff from BH's stash (immediate). Buy some bread flour from Costcutter (0800 start, 1,000 yards away). Buy the right stuff from Waitrose (0800 start, 2,000 yards away). I settled for the latter option, turning up outside Waitrose at 0755, to join a small queue there. Maybe a dozen of us by 0803 when the shutter went up, quite a cross section for such a small sample. Young, old, men and women. The older chap next to me explained that there was a select group of regulars, there every weekday morning at opening time. He was first off the blocks, ducking under the shutter before it was quite fully up.

Manged to score three bags of flour on the self checkout, rather than the two which I actually had, but the helpful lady next to me knew how to cancel an item, so I have learned something.

Ashley Centre shops mostly shut, but the fruit and veg. stall on the market place outside was fully deployed, waiting for customers.

Temple Road dug up again, this time for gas works. Seems no time at all since it was last being dug up, more or less at the same place. Must be a pain when rush hour gets going, which it had not when I went through.

Back home by 0815 and the dough was in the airing cupboard for its first rise by 0835, only half an hour late.

Reference 1: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/2018/06/big-day.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/2018/08/oldland.html.