Pizza and puff pastry

A scene of cosy domesticity as Miss Mouse makes her pizza.

And the puff pastry? Well, that's what the lopsided domes of snow on the flower-pots remind me of.

Whisky-sodden

The cake that is. Heavy boozing at Hogmanay (or indeed at all) is not my thing so I escape oh-so-smugly the annual two-day New Year hangover of Scottish tradition. Which lets me enjoy indulging in a nice slice of whisky-sodden Christmas cake. Mmmmmmmm.

Hogmanay

So, the end of the year and Project 365 has over-run by, um, a bit. I rather like this blogging malarkey.

This afternoon Miss Mouse and I went out sledging with Morag and her kids. As we were standing around shivering and attempting to keep the girls from falling in their faces in the snow every two minutes, the moon came up. Photographing the moon is tricky for the photographically-useless-but-enthusiastic such as me - in reality it was big and apricot-coloured and striking. In my photo it's small and white. Oh well.

edit: Apparently it was a blue moon, which is to say the second full moon in a month. Or maybe not. Whatever it is, it doesn't happen very often.

Photographing knitting

I just couldn't seem to get this right today. Usually natural light (dining-room window) leads to fairly faithful reproduction of the colours of the yarn - not today. Possibly there was too much cold snow-reflected natural light - certainly the colours are rather cool. I should probably find time to read the manual for my camera properly!

A good brisk walk

Well, maybe not a brisk walk, more a trudge really!

I went shopping today and decided to walk home. I hadn't reckoned on quite how slippery the pavements would be - it had thawed a bit but the pavements of course have well compressed snow which will take a good while to go. So it took me a while to get home, but it did feel great to stretch my legs a bit after being stuck inside so much of the last week.

Feline groovy

Arty cat-on-windowsill shot.

Cat Two turns local Borg to sentimental mush. Do I hear an 'awww' from the back?

Sparkly fairy

Miss Mouse flouncing around in a party dress!

I don't usually use the flash because I don't usually like the results, but with this pic I'm quite pleased.