Every Christmas, for the past 28 years, Mike Addis and his wife Catherine Weightman have had building work going on at home. For the couple love Lego, and they devote months each year to creating a Christmas scene that could put any grotto to shame.
This year they have built a 12ft x 6ft Lego Christmas wall complete with a fireplace and 6ft Christmas tree.
The wall, which fills up the living room of their house in Huntingdon, Cambs, has an astonishing amount of detail - from the Father Christmas boots dangling from the fireplace to the mince pies, and the matchsticks that light up candles.
The couple's love of Lego began when they created sculptures with their children, who are now adults.
Previous creations have included a 21ft London Bridge and a 12ft replica of Ely cathedral.
They used an estimated 400,000 bricks for this year's build, both equally working on it and committing between two and four hours each evening for two months to complete it.
Mr Addis, 64, a retired economics teacher, said the Christmas tree was the hardest. "Imagine trying to create the shape of a tree in square blocks," he said.
"In order to stand it upright we had to build it into the wall. The wall itself is quite heavy and is tied to our curtain rail."
He added: "We enjoy doing it, it's the satisfaction of completing something so big and technically interesting. It's better than watching telly.
"It's quite a social thing and it keeps us warm too. You can't believe building Lego, which doesn't involve a lot of movement, would but you could actually switch the heating off. It's all the getting up and down and fiddling around with the pieces."
When it's time to take down the decorations, the couple host a 'take down' party in January in which friends come with wine and food to help dismantle the structure over a two-week period.
