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Jan 31

A little bit of glitter on this morning’s #bus

Jan 30

Hmm, I think it’s time to throw these onions out.

This is @joe_bwab

Jan 29

Moo

Jan 27

Mmmm. Yummy vegetable soup.

Jan 21

Best. Balloon. EVER.

Jan 19

This notice sure don’t look like the Council put it up to me. Come on, Headingtonites, own up. Was it you?

Jan 17

The Great Snowman Decorating Adventure of 2012!

So you all know I’m a sucker for a bargain, and when I saw this, I just *had* to have it, darling, so I persuaded the lovely @joe_bwab to buy it for me.

It is entirely possible that it also appealed to the five year-old in me.

Being child-friendly, it came with a complete set of instructions. I would like to say I followed them to the letter, but looking back on them now I realise that I may have taken some artistic license with the placing of various sweets.

See the pots of wonderous delight? Clockwise from bottom left - fizzy sweet things for the scarf, assorted chocolate buttons and strawberry millions, chocolate “goo”, white-flavored “goo”. But of course you figured that out anyway.

When they said “chocolate goo”, I did expect something… more gooey. This was more like rather hard icing sugar, the type that (if you’re one of those cupcake people) you roll into beautiful roses and butterflies to put on top of, well, cupcakes. The brown goo tastes vaguely like the sort of chocolate you used to get in those fake chocolate cigarettes, the white goo like stale sugar, but somehow I don’t think the point of this kit is how it tastes…

Being the good girl that I am, I followed the instructions and used the brown goo on the brown hat. Being the awful decorator that I am, I decided the most efficient way to keep the icing on the hat was by rolling uneven sausages. Like I said, I am about 5.

It took some willpower not to eat all these straight away. I mean, look, they’re small, cute, and chocolatey. Apart from the marshmallows. Anyway, the pink things are Strawberry Milions, the brown chocolate balls like those ones you get in a Muller Crunch Corner.

Snowman Stage One. Don’t even ask what I was thinking with that middle button.

Snowman Stage Two!

Finished snowman!

The snowman is looking for its friends, but alas, no snow in Oxford today.

Seeing as I can’t really tell what gender the Snowman is, she shall be called Cindy, and she will live forever in our fridge (until @joe_bwab runs out of Toblerone).

This post has been brought to you by an open-faced smoked salmon salad sandwich and quite possibly too much cola.