I’m so excited. I have loved Pump Street Bakery since it opened. I live in London but when I started my PhD I did a wonderful Master's placement at Aldeburgh Music. I was lucky enough to stay in one of the coastguard cottages in Orford when I was there, through one of Mr D's work colleagues. It was a very special time in my life. I had left the grind of my old professional life behind, and had the amazing opportunity to be paid to think creatively about music making. I immersed myself in the work of Aldeburgh Music and the beautiful coastal village. I worked hard and sometimes, for a special treat, I popped along to the tiny town square for a jam donut and a coffee in the Pump Street Bakery. Word hadn't spread yet, it was still relatively new, and the bakery felt like my special secret. They tasted like the best jam donuts in the whole world.
After my placement finished, we often came to Orford for the weekend. Sometimes we stayed at the lovely Crown and Castle Hotel, others times we went back to the cottage. We walked all over the coast, loving the bracing beauty in the winter or visiting Orford Ness by boat in the summer. Sadly it was one of these weekends when Mr D died. I had bought him the weekend as a birthday treat, and it was just two weeks after his birthday and three days before our nineteenth wedding anniversary when he died suddenly, on one of our forest walks. I no longer feel I can go back to my special place. I feel a huge need to reclaim it, but I haven't been able to yet. So imagine my delight when I saw a post on Facebook advertising the Pump Street Bakery London pop-up store. Even more amazing it will be 5 minutes round the corner from where I now work. The London pop-up will be at 67 Redchurch Street, Shoreditch, London 13th-18th November, 10am-6pm (closing 4pm Sunday) with @pumpstbakery baked goods driven up from Orford every day. The jam donuts are coming to me! Image from the Visit Suffolk website. You can find out more about the bakery, and on Redchurch Street, Shoreditch here.
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