New is The Year

Here's hoping for Better in 2018!

Christmas Wishes (Bunny Style)

Merry Christmas!

Nadolig Llawen!

Christmas Bakes

Took a couple of days off before Christmas - to brave Morrisons for the food 'shop', and get ahead with the cooking.

Today was a baking day - made some frangipane mince pies . . .

. . . and decorated the keeper from last year's cake bake - very much in the same style too.






Not pushing the boat out too much on the baking front this year, as it's just the four of us on Christmas Day and we don't have any family staying over. 

That said, there'll be the now traditional Sticky Toffee Pudding to go in the oven, Christmas Pud (again held over from last year), and I can feel a post-Christmas chocolate brownie baking session coming on!

Firewood

Having been less than industrious on the wood gathering / chopping front this year (too busy with the hedges!), we decided to buy in some firewood, and on Tuesday evening (just as it started to rain) this lot duly arrived:

Fortunately they were able to back up to the garage and drop the wood inside (Martin was most impressed with their trailer reversing skills!).


So an hour or so this morning (while it was, briefly, not raining)  was spent moving just over one bag full from the garage into more permanent storage in the woodshed.  Will move the rest on another day (if it ever stops raining again!).

Snowy Sunday

In common with most of the rest of the country, today we had snow - perhaps not as much other places - but, actual snow . . .

In fact it snowed for most of the day - even quite heavily at times - although we only ended up with a light covering, and the roads remained pretty clear.





By the evening, when it had stopped, it did all look very festive . . . 



Unfortunately (or fortunately - depending on your viewpoint), it had mostly gone by the morning, although I did have to spend a good twenty minutes or more removing the impacted snow and ice from the car!