Gingerbread house

You do not want to know the best-before date of this gingerbread house.

We laid out all the pieces from the kit on a board on the coffee table so we could decorate them before construction, as the instructions instructed us to do. The coffee table is a frequently used route from the floor to Mr Perkins’ cushion on the sofa. You can see where this is going: yes, he jumped up onto the coffee table and walked over all the laid-out pieces.