Gingerbread house, part 4: decoration day! Bedecked with as many sweets as will fit, royal icing icicles and a ridge line of liquorice allsorts, it's finally done. Best one ever? I think we'll top it in 2026...

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Yes!

The teen watched it the other night with a comprehensive family tree of relations & connections 😂

Gingerbread house, part 3: assembly.

The walls are up!
(With the help of a few cans of fish.)
The roof is on!
(More can support action.)
And we're ready to proceed to the sweetest part of this job...decoration!
(Local sweet shops have been plundered.)

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Gingerbread house, part 2: moulding & baking. Pressing the dough into the mould and baking it doesn't take a lot of time. But it does have to be done three times. A certain amount of fatigue sets in after round two and, by the end of the third time, I'm on my own...

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Gingerbread house, part 1: making the dough involves many spice jars, black treacle, fresh-ground nutmeg, a large saucepan & two sisters jostling to make sure that each gets their turn - and wish! - as they stir it up. #Gingerbread recipe: bibliocook.com/2021/12/ging...

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Glad there was some left over for me!

Messy, but marvellous 🥰

Congratulations Patrick!

True 🤷‍♀️

Tried something like that on the @8degreesbrewing.bsky.social lads once. They were decidedly not impressed 😂

Everything reminds you of Bandit 😂

Also, v good naming convention 👌

I heart the Uniglo section on Vinted 🥰