OK – I bit the bullet. I bought a breadmaker – a ridiculously cheap breadmaker. I got it from Woolies for �19.99. They’d reduced it successively from �39.99 to �29.99 to �24.99, until finally I deemed it cheap enought. I bought some flour, yeast and other bits and bobs, and as I type, I’m theoretically less than 90 minutes away from my first loaf. Could be interesting…