Hi' Maisie, yes, bread is a very interesting subject, Beatie's Bread for instance, the war time and post war baps and batch loafs. There were four boys in our family, no girls, unfortunately, we took it in turns to go to the bread shop, or bakers shop in South Street every morning in Garlieston, where I grew up. The standing order, was for half a dozen baps and half a loaf, the loaves were baked in batches of two, and when you purchased half a loaf, the odds were even that you would end up with a good portion of the other half when they were pulled apart, and if it turned out that way, the extra piece would get eaten on the way home, warm fresh bread, who can withstand the temptation, I loved it. A little over a year ago I was back in my native village, and staying in nearby Whithorn, the loaf is still available, but skinnyer and prepackaged, to me it didn't taste the same, and even the baps were a bit on the skinny side, but did taste much the same as they did when I was just a boy. Here in Australia, one can buy bread from more than a dozen cultures and most of them are excellent and mouth watering, so maybe these days I'm a bit spoiled from choice, but I would love to go back to the old days, even for just a short time, and live it all over again. Len.