Falling back in love with food. Friday, 13 January 2012. I will continue to write a more personal blog here. Which will include my ongoing love of baking sourdough bread. Monday, 17 October 2011. After the battle with the sticky tea towel my bread had a rustic shape to it but smelled divine. The texture seemed fine and the colour less garish than the purple sticky dough I had left to rise for a couple of hours.

Testing scalar type hints in PHP7 and PHPUnit. I have recently been playing with some of the new features in PHP 7. Although only in alpha release at present, I am pleasantly surprised at the platform stability and the backwards-compatibility which allows most of my existing code to run unmodified. Scalar types and return types. The two features which most interest me are scalar type hints.

Nor does it contain any bread. What it does have, is my cousin, who is the best guitar player I know. It bears mentioning that I am a semi-professional musician, and have met, seen, heard, some world class musicians in my time. Why am I going on about this? Anyway, enough familial bias and musical gushery.

Bread, the Garden, Walks in Green Places. One of my favourite rye breads. Published Errata for Baking Books. This is the noonday sun on the last day in August. Today is the first of September, the beginning of the new year in my head. I left a tray of my own ho.

Introducing the next instalment in my life Forge Bakehouse. Martha and I hatched a plan to start a bakery in Sheffield while we were at The School of Artisan food and here we are, well on our way to opening! You can follow our progress over on the Forge website as well as on our twitter. Does this mean the death of a bit of butter? Filed under Things I do. Filed under The School of Artisan Food. Came to talk to us.