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Gingerbread (in biscuit form) is one of my favourite types of biscuit. Even though it's mostly full of sugar and eggs and things, it feels like it's very healthy because it has ginger in it, and ginger is full of health-giving properties. And there's something about gingerbread that makes people want to cut it into shapes and decorate it with icing sugar and chocolate buttons. That doesn't happen with other types of biscuit.

Well I had two nice gingerbread experiences on Saturday. The first one was at the Feast on the Bridge. Just before getting onto the bridge proper there was a baking kitchen set up with loads of children all sitting around small tables on small chairs like you sometimes get in activity areas of museums, except they weren't colouring in pictures, they were making and decorating gingerbread men and gingerbread pumpkins, and the chef people were baking them for them in portable ovens. It was very lovely, I wished I was small enough to pass off as a child and bake gingerbread on the bridge in the sun.

Then we went to Selfridges on our crockery hunt and we got distracted by all the other exciting things in the Selfridges kitchenware department. And they had the best thing ever: moulds for making gingerbread houses! Isn't that great? When I am rich again I'm going to buy one and bake gingerbread houses and a gingerbread witch and a gingerbread oven and stick the gingerbread witch in the gingerbread oven in the gingerbread house.