Alison Murray has been masterminding this Giant Knitted Gingerbread house to raise money for Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital and North Devon Hospice. Some 500 knitters from across the UK, USA, Canada and Spain sent knitted contributions to the house...but this morning I spotted this threat in the news:
Wool house ‘fire risk’
Fire officers have ordered a knitted house to be taken down after declaring it a fire hazard. The 10ft-by-14ft house was knitted by 500 women from all over the world and was on show at Atlantic Village at Bideford, North Devon, where it has raised £10,000 for charity. Ann Tattersall, who helped to create the house, said: “This is absolutely outrageous and is health and safety gone mad.” (Times, 21/09/07).
Sigh.
POSTSCRIPT 22/09/07: it's been taken down now....and, somehow, you just know that, at Christmas, they'll have a dry, brittle conifer in that shopping complex with flameball-glued, glittery baubles and rubbish blue-crackling fairy-lights surrounded by a sea of madly-flammable crepe paper...dammit.
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