Bread Is Life

 

Last year sometime, I found Kev Alviti's blog An English Homestead and immediately fell for it as we share some things in common. He is a stay at home father though he does run a woodworking business. He lives on a small acreage and loves to garden. Best of all, he is a prolific writer and even video producer of all these things. 

Towards the first of December last year, Kev made a beautiful bread board with inset carved letters stating "Bread Is Life" along the top. You can see that post with video HERE. It just happened to coincide with my wife's deep dive into sourdough baking and I thought it would be a perfect gift for her. I immediately went to the Etsy site where he said it would be listed and tried to buy it but, I'm sure due to mailing logistics, it wasn't available to oversea customers. Since Kev lives in England and I in America, we thus have an ocean between us.

I let the idea stew for a week or so but saw that it still hadn't sold so I wrote Kev and offered to buy it and pay for all shipping costs as well. To my joy, he agreed and even put it in the mail before I had even paid the fellow. He was concerned about it reaching us in time for Christmas even if I wasn't so concerned about the timing.

As luck would happen, it arrived on the doorstep a few days before Christmas and my wife intercepted the package. She asked me why I had bought a cutting board (contents of foreign mailed packages must be written on the outside of the package) when we have so many. Also, by coincidence, my wife had just pulled a loaf of sourdough bread from the oven. So I opened up the package then and there and gifted my wife an early Christmas present (don't worry, there are others) and she was thrilled.

Thanks so much Kev! We will treasure your bread board and it has already seen a lot of use since it arrived into our household. For those who don't know Kev, you should stop by and read his blog, subscribe to his YouTube channel or I'm sure, any number of his social media websites.