Well, folks, I am sorry that I can't join you in Ferintosh where I spent five glorious days last summer. I am booked into a Burns supper in the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh the same night. But I will be thinking of you all.

And just last weekend I went back to baking the brown bread that I learned to make over thirty years ago and which tastes as good as ever. Great with smoked salmon and lemon (or indeed, anything you care to put on it).

I could have brought five loaves and a few fishies with me... dunno about the feeding of the five thousand, but I could stretch to the rabble at Ferintosh!

All the best

Niblox