BTW, the bridge seems to be settling…

…in a good way. No splits have appeared, and it no longer creaks and gives conspicuously. Because it is an arch, the stresses are spread along the span, it is exposed to sun above and humidity below, and I think it’s kind of settling-in, in a carpentry...

Now and again you screw up something you're so used to doing…

I hardly use a recipe for bread any longer: cup and a half of warm water, 3 glugs of olive oil (from a liquor dispenser), 50 cent sized center of your palm of salt crystals (sea), then 4 cups sifted flour, a big pour of wheat bran, and 2 tsp of yeast. Only two things...