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image captionLanguages teacher Eric Becker started building the gingerbread house of Blickling Hall in November
An American man said he was blown away by the public response to his recreation of an English stately home using gingerbread.
Eric Becker, 29, from Memphis, Tennessee, shared his 100% edible design of Blickling Hall, in Norfolk, on a Norwich community Facebook page. After I posted it I was blown away by the kindness of people, he said.
Mr Becker spent about 60 hours making the house, which he has not visited in real life.
Mr Becker, who teaches French and Spanish, said he was inspired to make gingerbread houses by watching Mary Berry on the Great British Bake Off on BBC America.
First look at This Time With Alan Partridge series two 22/12/2020, 12:04 am
The BBC has shared a first glimpse at the second series of This Time With Alan Partridge (Gary Moyes/BBC/PA)
The BBC has shared a first glimpse at the second series of This Time With Alan Partridge.
Steve Coogan reprised his role as the inept TV presenter for the acclaimed comedy, which spoofs programmes such as The One Show.
Steve Coogan is reprising his most famous role for a second series of This Time With Alan Partridge (Andy Seymour/BBC/PA)
The second series sees Partridge, now established as the show’s co-presenter, fighting to stay on air amid behind-the-scenes upheaval and fears his relevance is dwindling.
Christmas is very much Alan territory : Steve Coogan in Knowing Me, Knowing Yule
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Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge – the comedy chat show first broadcast in 1994 – is perhaps best remembered for Alan’s “A-ha!” catchphrase (indeed, it’s dogged both Partridge and alter-ego Steve Coogan ever since: see Coogan shouting “A-ha!” into the northern wilderness in The Trip).
But it was Alan’s
other catchphrase which best surmised the show. “And on that bombshell,” Alan would always say in the closing moments, exuding Clarkson-esque vigour, as the show befell some new disaster of Alan’s own making.
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