Start: 95.4 Last week: 88.1 This week: 88.9
Tuesday 13 February: Bread news seems to have usurped food news as the “diet” continues on its dull and, for the time being ineffectual, way. Last week I did a no-knead sourdough, and it was a brick. Literally. More or less completely failed to rise. I...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 89.1 This week: 88.1
Tuesday 6 February: Things seem to be settling down again, but not a lot to report. On the bread front, a no-knead sourdough failed to rise much. Possibly the starter was a bit old. I’ll have to make another batch sooner rather than later, while ploughi...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 89.0 This week: 89.1
Tuesday 30 January: Not a lot to say these days, as I still seem to be on a plateau. I’m not about to start nose-clipping, or crazy spicing. Maybe what I need to do is eat lunch on my own more often. Yesterday, for example, I was tempted into half a vent...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: ??.? This week: 89.0
Tuesday 23 January: OK, I've been buggering about this 88 or 89 level for way too long now. I have my reasons, of course, but I think the time has come to make a serious push lower. Yesterday, after returning from a trip, I was at the supermarket shopping...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 188 This week: 90.1
Tuesday 9 January: Back on home turf for a few days now and the bad news is that my regular scales are definitely up on those of The Squeeze. I seem to have gone up 2kg in the past month, which is less than the mythical 7 pounds that the average person (...

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