Grace Shorthouse

Last day of work completed. Operation Christmas: Go Hard Or Go Home is back 💪

Central Park. For those who know - it’s taken a lot to get here.

Bake off WK 2: Mint chocolate biscuits Absolutely HATE baking with chocolate - nowhere to hide with it. Always ends up looking literally like 💩 & boy is it messy! Less of an Ingredient & more of a weapon of mass destruction in this kitchen. Tasted alright though 💪 #GBBO

Bake Off Technical Week 1: The Battenberg Tried making it. Now my kitchen looks like a snowstorm of icing sugar hit it, the marzipan is stuck to everything, and my cat glistens like a sugar-glazed doughnut. Cake? Edible. Dignity? Lost. #GBBO #BakeOffBakeAlong

GBBO is back, and so is my wildly optimistic plan to bake every technical challenge. My last bake was... uh... Christmas. Now I’m staring down a Battenberg like it’s the final boss of the baking world, Pray for me (and the kitchen) 🙏 #GBBO #BakingStruggles

My first lunch in the canteen in yrs! The team organising regular lunch breaks & teaching me a thing or two about self-care & connecting! Now to recruit the remaining team members! #teamlunch #wellbeing #letsdothisagain @SWBHnhs @HannahCurrie9 @DeepthyMadhavan @AsmaKha20359725

It’s official. Watching Villa throw away a 2-0 lead is a legitimate form of exercise.

Using chat GPT for job applications. It’s not the flex you think it is. Especially when accidentally pasting in “Certainly! Here’s a response to the question….” 🫣 I miss the humanity in writing. Give me a poorly structured sentence and a typo all day long!

Bake Off Technical Week 9: Tarte Aux Pommes That’s a lot of accurate slicing & dicing. I presume making this comes with a CCT in gen surg - uploading this to my portfolio as supporting evidence. 1 more to go until the Bake Off Challenge is complete!💪💪 #GBBO #BakeOffBakeAlong

Bake Off Technical Week 8: Caterpillar Cake Ahh, ain’t he cute 🥰 And like puppies, babies, kittens and most other cute things in life… he’s also messy, fussy and a lot more work than you’d first realised 🫣 #GBBO #BakeOffBakeAlong 2 more to go!!! 💪

Bake Off Technical Week 7: Orange & Ginger Treacle puddings They’re not that tricky… if given adequate time 👀 I’m not really one to steam puddings (hellish burnt Dampfnudel from a prev Bake off aside) but these were…delicious! No slop-fest here! #GBBO #BakeOffBakeAlong

Bake Off Technical Week 6: Lemon & Thyme Bundt cake I mean… I take issue with carrot in a cake, so thyme? Forget about it! Totally unnecessary (& thankfully subtle) Props to the flimsy silicone mould that managed to retain this shape - Very pretty! #GBBO #BakeOffBakeAlong

Bake Off Technical Week 5: Dauphinoise potato & caramelised onion pithivier Though my pastry was more rough than puff… this was DELICIOUS… and I f you like blue cheese, the sauce is just 👌 A joy to eat - esp after making that feet-cake last week #GBBO #BakeOffBakeAlong

Bake off technical week 4: caramelised white chocolate & blackcurrant cheesecakes Never. Again. Looks can be deceiving. These took hours, practically required scaffolding to avoid being mistaken for Yorkshire puddings… and they tasted like feet. #GBBO #BakeOffBakeAlong

Bake Off Technical week 3: Devonshire Splits Bread week. Never been a fan really. But you know… I got a roll with it… Baddummtishhhh! Thank you thank you, I’m here all week 😜 There were surprisingly quite good! #GBBO #BakeOffBakeAlong

Bake Off Technical Week 2: Custard Creams Things got sticky. And the dough is *very* temperature sensitive… so the fridge got sticky too. And the door handles. And the taps. And the floor …you get the idea 👀 #GBBO #BakeOffBakeAlong

It’s that time again - Bake Off Technical Week 1: Chocolate Fudge Cake Picture includes wine consumed whilst waiting for that bloody ganache to set! Tasted great though. Eventually. 😴 #GBBO #BakeOffBakeAlong

What a wholesome team to work in. Can’t beat a bit of after work #Wellbeing 👏 👏 @ianomullane sounded fantastic - might need to incorporate this into our Frailty CGA somehow. #MusicTherapy #MyTeamIsBetterThanYours

Bought coffee for the hardworking members of my team #Teamwork

As a child, I bought loads of this type of thing in the hope my handwriting would eventually look pretty. It never did. In the end I just gave up and became a doctor.