h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: How to Make a Gingerbread House - A87728359 Author: Lanzababy - Guide Editor - Please take part in our Festive Recipe Share Challenge: A87721626 - U10790805 This is a submission, made on behalf of Mol, U222463 who wrote a perfect piece in this thread: http://wsogmm.h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/alabaster/F19585?thread=8287116&skip=0&show=20 This is intended to go forward in the Festive Recipe Share, so please offer your thoughts. Please note, that the Entry is written from first hand experience, and as such is acceptable. This is not an opinion piece, it is giving advice from a position of knowledge. I think it is exactly right for the remit of the Create challenge. I look forward to reading your reviews. Lanzababy

Yeah - great entry.

All you need for your own fairy tale construction.

Can I edit it a bit?

Mol

Hi Mol,

Most certainly, I've handed it over to your account in entirety - but if there is any help you need, please ask.


Good luck!


Lanzababy.

Yes, I just pressed the pencil button and nearly had heart failure. I'll have a go ...

Mol

hi

It would make sense to move the bit where ou roll out the dough before the bit where the parts get cut out I think.

Right, yes, done that, thank you, you're right. I've also made some tweaks to phrasing and punctuation. I think the style is quite casual but if that's acceptable, I'm now OK with the wording (if it's not OK I'll re-write it completely, as it was originally a post not an entry; but I'd have to do it in notepad and cut'n'paste it as the GuideML is doing my head in).

The only thing I'd like to change now is to add a space between each bullet point, so that the text is more spread out - at the moment it's a lot of text, not very broken up, and I think that's quite intimidating on the eye. I really don't know how to do that, sorry.

And next I need to find a photo. There isn't one on this laptop or on my phone so this will involve firing up another computer. And I'm really sorry but I've got a load of gingerbread to make ...

Mol

Hi Mol

Good news on the photograph front - kelli followed these instructions and has made the most fabulous house, decorated it with help from her children and sent us some photos, one of which has been accepted by the Artists as being suitable to use to illustrate this Entry.

So, if you're happy, I can make the changes to the formatting.

The style is fine, it makes perfect sense to the reader, as evidenced by kelli's success

ps, please send any photos that you think would be suitable, as we can have more than one. But don't go to too much time and trouble over it. We could even add it later, there is no problem with doing that.

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Well done!

Thank *you* for being the midwife ... It would probably be easiest for me to photo this year's on Christmas Eve and email it straight from my phone, tbh, so I'll do that.

Mol

I formatted it a bit more for you mol, and added a sentence of introduction

here is the finished thing. Let me know if there is anything you see amiss and I'll fix it.


http://h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/brunel/A87730266

Wow, that looks like a proper entry

The only change I think it needs is about freezing in advance - I froze in early November one year so it can be done several weeks ahead, three is a bit arbitrary and only really applied in the original post.

Mol

I did wonder about the three... I'll sort it out.

How wonderful, and with my photo!

Mol didn't mention the *really* hard part - keeping little fingers and teeth away from the finished house until smashing-up time

It takes about ten years of training to do that ... Once they've experienced the smashing up, though, they can be reminded of how fun that bit is and that helps.

Your gingerbread house looks fantastic, v impressed.

Mol

Right, well now I've actually made my own for this year I've remembered other useful stuff. I should have made notes really. My house is now assembled and I've just got to work out when I'll do the piping ...

Mol