Gingerbread House Village

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Well, at the office anyway.

It is a bit of a tradition for my team to build a Christmas Diorama to celebrate the beginning of the silly season and the end of the work year. 

Beati3 seems to be the official Diorama Coordinator and others get creative if they feel the need.  

This year, in keeping with Clover Moore's obsession in creating a "City of Villages", a gingerbread house village has popped up in the office kitchen.  Mmmmm...tasty!

I think Hilary Clinton once said "it takes a village to raise a child".  What she really should have said is "it takes a gingerbread village to keep a child well and truly happy".

Beati3 spent many days and nights lovingly baking and constructing her gingerbread house only to have the roof cave in right at the very end.  Whilst this may seem like a total tragedy (and it probably was for Beati3) it meant that we've all spent the last week eating the ruined pieces of the gingerbread house.  Don't you love it when something good comes out of a gingerbread tragedy?

Not one to give up, Beati3 did what all good foodies do and popped down to DJs to buy a gingerbread house kit. There's nothing wrong with a kit house - my parents lived in one for years!

And the thing with gingerbread houses is that they multiple. Pretty soon we had an entire row of gingerbread houses...

And just to make things even better this is what we found in the kitchen this morning!   I can't think of a better start to a Monday, can you?

POSTSCRIPT:

After I left the office last night I think the Christmas Elves must have been hard at work as our gingerbread house village got a whole lot fancier.  Check out this wonderful mountain vista...