NOT long ago, the suggestion that a programme about people baking would become a national TV obsession would have met with derision.
But that is exactly what has happened with the BBC’s Great British Bake Off.
The first series was a huge and surprising hit and has made presenters Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood into household names.
As the much-anticipated series two started this week, there was added interest for people in Oxfordshire in the form of Didcot contestant Christine Wallace.
The series has been pre-recorded and Christine is staying commendably tight lipped about how she has fared.
We can only watch and hope that, unlike her eggs, she can’t be beaten.
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