Giving us all our daily bread is a more complex operation than most of those otherwise engaged in battling against Covid, Islamaphobia, White Supremacy and Chris Whitty might imagine. In today’s diary fragment, Nobby opens the door to every professional secret on the subject of separating the wheat from the chaff.

Many ask, ‘how do I become a kneader of dough?’ My answer is you’ve gotta have some dough. It’s essential you have access to it. Pretending it’s dough when it’s not dough and then pointlessly kneading it only serves to delude oneself into believing you’ve kneaded dough when you really haven’t. In short, it’s a waste of fucking time. Whats more, wanting to knead a lump of dough and being able to knead a lump of dough are three very different things.

My thrice yearly Dough Kneading Course begins with a demonstration on how to make dough, how to…