Edgar's only contribution to the mince pies was a) cutting an angel shaped pastry top as he prefers them to stars ( ?!) and b) dusting them all with icing sugar. Still at 16 I'm happy he parted himself from his x box at all. He then told me that in chemistry Mr Shaw had sprinkled icing sugar over a flame and it had all ignited in a spectacular fashion. With me being a dab hand at lighting candles, I produced one within seconds and placed it in the middle of the kitchen floor. Edgar enthusiastically shook copious amounts of icing sugar over it from a great height......and lo and behold.... not so much as a spark ! It has taken me bloody ages to clean the kitchen floor though :)