The joys of working from home

I've been a bit ill over the last few days and I'm still not feeling back to normal, so I decided to work from home today. It's been the first time I've worked from home for quite a long while, and it's actually worked out quite well - I've been surprisingly productive. I'm doing some programming for work at the moment, which does mean that periodically I need to wait for 15 minutes while my code runs to give me some results for debugging purposes. As I'm home, I thought that rather than wasting that time on the internet, I'd get Aage out and have a bit of a play (yes, I'm a terrible pet owner - Aage does get horribly neglected). I just did a standard, half-quantities loaf of bread (250g wholemeal flour, 150g water, 5g salt, half of Aage), with a handful of chopped up olives out of a jar thrown in for good measure (which is why I left the oil out of the dough), but still a good use of spare time I'd say! I was really pleased with this loaf. The rise was pretty good, and the texture was lighter than my average sourdough loaf as a result, but what really made it was the crust! Not too hard, but developed well enough and with a fantastic crunch.