From icing sugar to snow and ice
When you are on your own in a freezing house, the best thing to do is to keep moving. And switch the oven on! lol
So today I spent some time baking a cake.
This is the 'Hummingbird cake' from the 'Hummingbird bakery cookbook' and is made of 3 banana/pineapple/pecan and cinnamon sponges, sandwiched with and covered in cream cheese frosting.
If you are worrying about my cholesterol, thank you but fear not! I only had a tiny slice. Honest! I gave the rest to 5 neighbours!
Then I went into town to the YMCA to practise my swimming.
I'm pleased that I feel more confident in the water - the goggles made a lot of difference: it looks pretty underwater!
The weather forecast was very accurate and it started to snow at around 6 pm when I left the Y.
Fighting against my instinct of getting home as soon as possible (a must for any sensible Londoner as we know from bitter experience that just a sprinkling of snow will cause train armageddon), I walked down to Trafalgar Square to have a look at the ice on the fountains.
I love the changing colours
Talking of sensible, these two were anything but. The lions are on a high pedestal and climbing up there in this weather? Tut tut!
The snow is not of the fluffy, soft variety. It's ice and it hurts your eyes. I almost wore my goggles! lol
So today I spent some time baking a cake.
This is the 'Hummingbird cake' from the 'Hummingbird bakery cookbook' and is made of 3 banana/pineapple/pecan and cinnamon sponges, sandwiched with and covered in cream cheese frosting.
If you are worrying about my cholesterol, thank you but fear not! I only had a tiny slice. Honest! I gave the rest to 5 neighbours!
Then I went into town to the YMCA to practise my swimming.
I'm pleased that I feel more confident in the water - the goggles made a lot of difference: it looks pretty underwater!
The weather forecast was very accurate and it started to snow at around 6 pm when I left the Y.
Fighting against my instinct of getting home as soon as possible (a must for any sensible Londoner as we know from bitter experience that just a sprinkling of snow will cause train armageddon), I walked down to Trafalgar Square to have a look at the ice on the fountains.
I love the changing colours
Talking of sensible, these two were anything but. The lions are on a high pedestal and climbing up there in this weather? Tut tut!
The snow is not of the fluffy, soft variety. It's ice and it hurts your eyes. I almost wore my goggles! lol