Dropping in on Edd Kimber to check out his newly completed kitchen — a cool plywood design by Uncommon Projects — after he has been away for a long weekend makes for bad timing.
The winner of the first ever series of The Great British Bake Off usually has freshly baked goods to pack visitors off with, but today all he has to show is a block of butter softening up on the worktop. “I joke that I’m the Pied Piper of baking,” he says of plying neighbours and his dog-sitter with homemade spoils almost daily.
