The Boggy Brae 2014 Gingerbread House

First the microscope and bryology books and general Nelly clutter are cleared off the work table >>>>

Then a member of Gryffindor House
makes the dough

While doing so, she looks up and spots Magnetic Hippo's new 'hiding place' on a carafe drying stand that hangs over the cooker hood. He has been there for ages :)

Nelly leaves Toadlet (the Hogwarts pupil) and DivingDaughter to get on with it. When she returns she finds her South American music CDs used as building props. Novel! Actually, they nearly used novels instead.

She also notices some gaps where the rain and wind could get in...

...and that, on removing some of the outside CDs so that the icing cement Toad then pushed into the gaps would not drip on them, discovered more CDs inside.






Next day Toadlet and DivingDaughter did some decorating.

DivingDaughter's side and gable end

and Toadlet's

and the gingerbread forest with wild honeysuckle and a rockman, sorry, snowman.

This is DivingDaughter's fridge back home in Edinburgh

I don't know if she and her flatmates have eaten their house yet, but by the end of Boxing Day she had helped the rest of us at the Boggy Brae to polish off the forest, including all the undecorated trees that Nelly found and did herself.

All are agreed that it's darn good gingerbread!

Happy New Year to All!