My first post for a long while, after being very busy and achieving, it seems, not a lot!

Yesterday was good though - my first Christmas invitation. I went to my friend Henriette's house to decorate biscuits. We do this most years - a group of friends dating from when our children all went to the village school. Henriette provides an amazing range of hundreds and thousands, silver dragιes, chocolate drops, jelly slices, cherries, angelica and other sugary things whose name I don't know; several bowls of coloured lemon icing, and freshly-baked lemon biscuits in all sorts of shapes. And of course cups of tea!

We sit there gossiping and having playschool fun - and here are the results:

xmas biscuits

There is a preponderance of cows which I made for another cow-mad friend I'm visiting today. My favourite is the pink and white penguin just left of centre in the photo.