Breadmill Bakery

10/10/2026

Baked goods as far as the eye can see!

I push the boat out for a Saturday as much as I can and it's always great to see everything lined up and ready to go out the door!

For the newer followers, my Saturday menu is currently as follows:

Bread:
Plain sourdough
Malted sourdough
Toasted four-seed sourdough
White spelt sourdough tin
50/50 white and wholegrain spelt tin
Wholegrain rye tin
Sourdough focaccia cobs
Sourdough focaccia
(All bread is vegan friendly)

Sweets:
Rye chocolate brownie
Panela custard tart
Chocolate orange custard tart
Sticky apple and cinnamon bun (vegan)
Blueberry custard cardamom bun (vegan)
Chocolate and cherry bun (vegan)

Savouries:
Pepperoni and cheddar mini focaccia
Tomato, mozzarella and pesto mini focaccia
Umami bun (vegan)

Doors open at 9am down at Sneinton Market Avenues . Once it's gone it's gone!

See you soon 🙏

04/10/2026

I'm back at The Garage Chilwell and I just had to capture this beautiful sunlight that's making my loaves even more dazzling right now!

It's 3 years since I started trading monthly at The Garage and I love it.

Thanks to everyone for your continued support.

See you soon 🙏

30/09/2026

Absolutely chuffed to bits and so grateful to have received this recognition 🙏

Well done to all the small businesses who work so hard at what they do ❤️

30/09/2026

Good morning!

I've given the ever-popular cinnamon bun a seasonal tweak this week - introducing the sticky apple cinnamon bun!

I was kindly given a huge bag of apples from a customer's garden so had the challenge of turning them into something.

I spent 5hrs on Monday (my day off 😂) transforming them into the most intense malted apple puree.

This has then been added to the usual cinnamon bun filling and brushed onto the bun post-bake.

I hope you enjoy it. They're available today and until I've run out of the puree!

They'll also be on sale at The Garage Chilwell on Sunday, alongside all my usual array of sourdough breads and other goodies.

See you soon 🙏

24/09/2026

I'm excited to welcome Gee & Gee's to the bakery on Saturday!

Grace will be selling her range of sauces, noodles and granola, which are all made a stone's throw away from Breadmill.

Be sure to get down early to try some out!

19/09/2026

Thanks to everyone who watched my video yesterday. Whether you came down and bought a loaf or commented with your opinions, it was all appreciated.

It's made me think about how I use this account in the future and whether it could be a platform for a wider discussion about our attitudes to food and where we want our food to come from, and what we want it to look like into the future.

Keep your thoughts coming as it's really got my cogs whirring - perhaps it's reawakened the journo in me a bit too!!!

Anyway, better get back to baking. Doors open at 9. Hope to see you soon 🙏

18/09/2026

It's 12.30pm and I'm running low on sweet and savoury stuff, but I've still got two-thirds of the bread I baked for today left on the counter.

It's not the first time in recent weeks that I've been in this situation and I'm at a loss really as to why.

My loaves are very reasonably priced and may cost slightly more than the rest of the grab and go goodies, but you can feed yourselves, your mates, your families with delicious bread for a few days.

I just wanted to see if you could help shed some light on this for me please. Bread, sadly, has a bad rep but there's nothing bad about my loaves. They're just flour, water, salt. No additives, no preservatives, no fortified flour.

Anyway, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts. Hopefully some of you will come and buy a loaf this afternoon too!

Cheers 🙏

16/09/2026

Good morning!

Another week of baking is underway, and today's bake is extra special as I've had Jack helping me.

You might not know Jack, but without him there may not have been Breadmill!

In the summer of 2017 he interviewed me for a trainee baker job at and was mad enough to give me a chance 🙏

Come down to Sneinton Market Avenues today and say thank you to him, and buy a loaf while you're at it!

See you soon 🙏

12/09/2026

05/09/2026

Another of life's good ones has been taken too soon.

I had the pleasure of working with Alex at Nottinghamshire Live for a number of years and have many special memories of him, both professionally and as a friend.

I lost count of how many lunch breaks we had in Old Market Square with a Brown Betty's mega sando, discussing his next big scoop. He also made me the best surprise birthday hat for my 30th celebrations at Trent Bridge, which also came around the time that my own journalism career came to an end.

I'll also remember him trying to drag me around the 25 mile course of the Great Notts Bike Ride one year - him a seasoned cyclist and me anything but that. I've barely ridden since but can still feel every bump!

Alex even introduced me to the joys of NFL and invited me to Wembley to watch his team, New York Jets vs Miami Dolphins. Go Jets!

We still kept in touch, even after he moved to London and then Sydney to pursue his journalistic dreams on the other side of the world. It was an honour that he made the effort to come back to Nottingham to meet my son and I'll treasure this photo.

God bless you Alex and rest easy my friend 🙏

(If anyone from the Post would like to share a pint in The Dragon to raise a toast to Alex I'd love that sometime. If you knew him locally then please share your memories too 🥹)