Makies in the Snow

Take two Makies.

Hullo!

Add a good dumping of snow.

Snow angels?!

Encourage creativity.

We call him Mr Slumpy

Allow pioneering.

Taa daa!

Provide cleaning facilities...

Flipping heck... 

...and lots of hot chocolate.

Better.

RED ZONE

What a dramatic title!

The Meteorological Office here in the UK likes to give weather warnings a colour. Yellow is a bit iffy. Amber is look out. Red is... omgwtfbbqroflmao lock up your valuables and hang on for a fun time of it.

They announced a red snow warning for today for the UK. Here's why it's a red warning...

Many parts of the Red Warning area are likely to have 20-30 cm of snow with strong southeasterly winds causing blizzards, severe drifting of lying snow and thus severe disruption. The public should avoid all non-essential journeys.

And oooh look. A map!

RED is BAD

Oh dear. The Welsh Institute for Makie Science happens to be on the bottom edge of the red area... and the hospital where I work is well into the middle of it!

When we woke up this morning, there were a good four inches of snow on the ground and it's continued to snow all day. I must admit, once the traffic news started rolling in, I didn't even attempt to get my car off of the driveway. I'd handed over all my patients to one of the juniors who lives on site yesterday, and my Consultant told me in no uncertain terms that if I did make it to the hospital, he'd just send me home again. 

So I've been sat in the armchair, drinking tea and photographing the wildlife through the window... 

Poor Squirrel

...and then some very wild wildlife showed up...

O hai!

More to come!

Cooking With Plink: Christmas Cake part 2

Hullo!

Look what I got for Christmas!

Har. No it's not an offensive weapon, it's for making tasty griddled treats, honest

Anyway. I thought you might like to see how the Christmas cake ended up. Given the human wasn't feeling so well, she wasn't able to photograph my progress, but I'm pleased to say this has been flawlessly covered in marzipan and the fluffiest royal icing which did NOT run down the sides in an alarming fashion in any way shape or form at all ever never oh noes.

Aww, cute little snowfamily

The snowmen were Melchie's idea, we used ready-to-roll icing and leftover black writing icing from Halloween  The tiny buttons and the hats and the scarf and from bits of rubbish the human left lying around.

I'm going to go into business next year. Can't wait to tell the human...