Hee! There were a few comments in there I wanted to unlike so I could like again, but the community said no!
I still automatically think of @ElsieH when I see anything well done in gingerbread!
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Gingerbread season is here again! If you don’t see me post, it’ll be because it was an epic fail. I’m attempting to do Big Ben but I didn’t want Big fat Ben so everything is tiny. But my trusty Glowie cut it all out like a champ. We shall see lol. Stay tuned
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Fingers crossed!
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Not a lot of people are going to get that joke.
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Meaning just the bell is big ben?
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The rest of the building is somewhat more than is in the photo, but just the part in the photo would be quite a challenge.
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Correct 
That’s the name of the bell of the Great Clock of West Minster. People often (mis)apply it to the clock or the clock tower.
Little bit of trivia for Thanksgiving table conversation so you can avoid politics, religion and other frictional topics 
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Oh, come on… it’s so much fun!
I can’t remember the last time I was in London and saw the tower not obscured by scaffolding…
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And the size of the rest of the building?
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The history is interesting. I am from the UK, but few people know these facts…
https://www.visitlondon.com/things-to-do/sightseeing/london-attraction/big-ben
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It’s incredibly accurate too (except when birds or heavy snow land on the minute hand). It’s accurate to under 2 seconds per week. It gets wound (by hand) 3 times a week and that take an hour & a half.
The pendulum is balanced by pennies but only pre-1970 ones. They were made of bronze and weigh 9 1/2g but the post 1970 ones are now made of copper plated steel and weigh 3 1/2g. Each penny slows the clock by just under a half second.
Should have posted that yesterday to provide Thanksgiving table conversation trivia
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Okay, but when it was renamed to Elizabeth tower….what was it renamed from? Article left that bit out unless it was literally just “clock tower”.
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“The Clock Tower” - but it was pretty much, and still is, more commonly referred to as Big Ben.
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