The Loafery

Making good bread in Bawtry since 2018

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I'm pleased to say that I've shaken hands on a deal to sell everything to a young local chef who'll be baking Real Bread in the centre of Doncaster somewhere. I'm looking forward to being his first customer.

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.@realbread and anyone who's looking to gear up a small bakehouse, I'm afraid the pandemic and my responsibilities as a carer have done for The Loafery as a commercial entity. Before I sell everything as a job lot to a dealer, maybe someone might like to make an offer on: 1/

[The Loafery @LoaferyBread]

The ovens might too, but you'd have to be braver than me to manage that.

[The Loafery @LoaferyBread]

.@realbread and anyone who's looking to gear up a small bakehouse, I'm afraid the pandemic and my responsibilities as a carer have done for The Loafery as a commercial entity. Before I sell everything as a job lot to a dealer, maybe someone might like to make an offer on: 1/

[The Loafery @LoaferyBread]

No sensible offers refused, I'd l rather sell direct to a Real Bread baker than to a dealer any day of the week.

I got the oven into the bakehouse with a Hiab truck, so you'd probably need to hire something similar. Everything else will happily go in a taillight truck.

[The Loafery @LoaferyBread]

Back when restrictions started easing, I was asked when I’d start baking again and I said, “Not until at least September.” And... well, it’s nearly September and none of the things that would make me feel safe to reopen are in place, so I’m afraid I won’t be baking this month.

[The Loafery @LoaferyBread]

This thread, on my personal account got a little out of hand and turned into a kind of… something that I thought Loafery followers might like to read too. The Lockdown has been a trying time, but we’ll come out of it still baking the best bread we can. Roll on the day.

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@RealBread The attitude displayed in this tweet does not make me proud to be acmember of the campaign.@ kindness costs nothing.

[The Loafery @LoaferyBread]

One “advantage” of running a one person bakery is that I can self isolate and still bake. But this is probably my last batch for a while. Diabetes and my wife being in her seventies mean that our acceptable risk is rather lower than for some of our customers.

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@DrugCrazed They did indeed!

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The 0330 alarm on a bake day isn’t my favourite thing, but the larks in the field next door to the bake house were singing their hearts out when I set off with the deliveries so there are compensations.

#BakersLife

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@Local_Branton Damn! We have friends coming round to sing folk songs with us today or we would so have been there for that. Boston baked beans? Count me in.

Is it always the first Sunday?

[The Loafery @LoaferyBread]

Raising a mug of Jenny’s Blend from @Imperial_teas in memory of a brilliant woman who seemed like a fixture at one of my favourite shops.

So long, and thanks for all the brews. https://t.co/I4c88uKwjS

[The Loafery @LoaferyBread]

The realities of being a one man band – If I’m ill for even one day of a production cycle, that’s the whole thing lost. #BakersLife

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Note to self: Sort out packaging for seasonal products like stollen at least a season before you sell them. Stollen packaging this year will be... functional.