THE A-Z OF FAILURES

How to Be a Failure (Part Y)

The penultimate episode

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Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.— Bruce Lee

I’m going to be honest, Bruce. I’m not entirely sure that my attempts to get to grips with . . .

Yeast

. . . could accurately be described as “great”. If only I had known I would be writing about failures, I could have entertained you here with approximately 56 photos of flat bread rather than the single photo I took of my one and only success. Behold!

Photo by the author of the single loaf of bread I eventually managed. Even then, it went as hard as a stone after about ten minutes and proved impossible to slice. Two knives were destroyed in the attempt.

Yesterday

I failed on numerous counts yesterday. But I did learn from three of them.

Just a fraction of the piles of paper wrapping used in our house move. Photo by author.

We have just moved house, and the next time we move (hopefully NEVER), I am going to give the removal men who do the packing the following guide:

1. If you wrap anything sharp, please use this red Sharpie pen and write SHARP in big letters on…