The Power & Glory of slow low heat .... miles of Cognac steeped blocks of finest Fruit and Nuts...!

Lo & Behold .... inhaling deeply Cognac fumes while filling tins with our heads in the next batch ...

Happy Head spinning from nose in the trough of Cognac Fumes....filling me with Christmas Power & Glory!

More Cognac more batches more bakes .... my faithful Mrs Waller.... 84 years and going strong!?

Mrs Waller sorting walnuts while cakes in oven

While cakes bake-We cut gold bands- halve dried figs- cut ribbons & sort pecans & walnuts❤️

Chaos in the ranks.... baked 2000 so far!

Chaos in bakery... baked 2000 Sofar

5 am staff collapsed in carpark ... baking all night while you lot are fast asleep! Look how happy they are!?

Blossoming Romance in Bakery-I promise no evidence of using “child labour”- Queen Maybeline

Cakes are baked -- now the hard work starts- my team “Vestal Virgins” have arrived ---!

All cakes baked - My “Vestal Virgins” have arrived to do the hard work now!

3am cakes in the oven the main man of my life Santa Claus, chef Paulo is making 10,000 tarts for the great British public🍰

For 5 hours - My “babies” are snoozing and simmering in a Merry-go-Round of low heat

Long night ahead - it's midnight - my Vestal Virgins got-a-lot-to-do !?🌜

2am- still at it-!

Jingle Bells.🎸🎶Handmaidens still awake & happy??? Don’t understand a word they are saying???

My new “ elf” for the Newmarket Show ... pushed for bloom of youth - but Santa took all the young maidens!!

3 hours doing business at Newmarket Racecourse ... no sign of My New Elf?? Shall I sack her?

Mrs Waller my best Sales Elf has "pulled" my fav Private Eye Editor at Physic Garden Fayre!?