Tiny Tuesday 53 Celebrating...

...Tiny Tuesday's first Blip birthday!  This wonderful challenge began last year when Walking Wombat invited us to join her for MayMacroMayhem.  To allay the withdrawal pangs when that month had ended, Tiny Tuesday was born and is now entering its second year.
Many thanks to Walking Wombat for encouraging us to experience the world of macro!

Ideally I would have liked to have found an interesting insect to blip but the weather was so appalling today that there was absolutely no chance: lashing rain and high winds put paid to that.  We've had Christmas days with higher temperatures than those we experienced today. So miserable was it that I confess we turned on the gas coal fire in the evening.  I didn't have time to bake a (tiny) cake so am making do with two items given to celebrate mine and daughter #1's birthday instead.