Cosmos

So here it is ... I know, it's tiny, and it took me three weeks. It has its flaws, but generally I'm very pleased with how it turned out. I based it on photos taken by the Hubble telescope, having seen a mosaic on the same theme, but it ended up developing fairly independently of my original sketch. Theoretically there are two colours of grout, but I seem to have miscalculated the percentage of tint needed.

Also, today I passed the 3 kg weight loss mark, which I wasn't expecting! Marvellous how cutting down on booze can help :) I celebrated by making a far from SW-friendly fruit loaf from one of my new cookbooks, Oats in the North, Wheat from the South, by Regula Ysewijn. It's a history of British baking, but I suspect this is a Belgian recipe as she recounts eating it as a child. See extra ... it's a brioche-type dough that rose very modestly during the first prove but went berserk during the second, and even further in the oven. We will test it shortly!