Make a rose or two ...

 A year since I have made any icing roses.  A celebration next week, so roses will decorate the cake.

 13 petals make each bud, and then another 13-17 for the rest of the rose.

 Perhaps I have made about 190 petals today.

 The sponges hold the roses up, while the petals are "glued" in place.

Single Speed Champs

 The International Single Speed Championships 2017, Rotorua.

499 riders, dressed in a wide range of weird and wonderful costumes, participated in the event in the Whakarewarewa forest. An estimated 2000 spectators lined the trails to cheer on the riders, who came from all over the world to compete.

The fastest man was Rotorua local Sam Shaw,The fastest woman was another local, Janine Kavanagh, who dressed as Where's Wally. They got the winners tattoos, everyone else came second.