For me, dungarees can double as a tea towel, a headband hides the fact I haven’t brushed my hair and stacked Converse give me a little bit more height. Find a daily uniform that feels super comfortable.She gave them to neighbours, then friends, and started a subscription service.
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She learnt how to make sourdough from Chad Robertson’s Tartine Bread and baked four loaves a day. It was alive, it needed me, it gave me a sense of purpose.” Kitty didn’t stop.
Then one day, Alex, who baked the odd loaf of bread, suggested she help: “It was amazing: I could feel the dough breathe beneath my fingers. Her parents encouraged her to go on walks, paint and sew, but nothing stuck. Kitty’s depression escalated and she had to leave school. I became badly depressed – I didn’t want to do anything I didn’t want to go out.” The pressure was like never-ending torture. “I’m the youngest of three children and I wanted to stand out… If I got an average mark, I would be distraught. “I wanted to be the best at everything, to be in all the sports teams and all the plays,” she says. Bright and popular, Kitty had started to struggle.
Back in 2018, Alex taught dyslexic students at the University of Oxford, while Kitty went to the local state school. Best-laid plans.īut for all Kitty and Alex’s success, running a bakery was never the plan. Regularly manning the till, she greets almost everyone by name, is familiar with their children and their dogs, and knows who can’t do without a cinnamon bun on a Saturday. Its sourdough is fluffy, its cinnamon buns fragrant and Kitty, the chief baker, is a delight. Since it opened 18-months-ago, The Orange Bakery in Watlington, Oxfordshire, has become a floury sensation, often clearing out within a couple of hours.
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