Spending an evening indoors trying to enter into the spirit of the holiday season was worth missing one running session. As the sunset played out a candy-floss finale to a bitterly cold day we hunkered down in the kitchen and cracked open some Christmas beer and a indulged in the traditional tradition of decorating a gingerbread house.
First task was repairing the broken prefabricated gingerbread sections that didn't make it back from the supermarket in one piece. What better confectionary cement to use than caramel...
..and if you've made a batch of caramel then why not use it to build the whole house?
On the wall that faced the prevailing winds I decided that the gingerbread could do with some reinforcing so I opted for a stone-wall of peanut M&Ms held together with icing.
The finished house with gingerbread bouncers, peanut M&M rockery in the garden, Non-Stop solar panels on the roof and a dusting of icing sugar powder snow. Eagle-eyed readers will also notice the Seigdamer. That's right, they like jelly babies but they're jelly women with jelly boobs...
My teeth hurt just looking at these photos.
