Major Tim Peake comes home to a gastronaut's Sunday roast

What better way for Major Tim Peake to celebrate his homecoming after six months in space than with buckets of meat and veg - a roast dinner - strategically placed on a giant plate to look like him.

Peake, who touched down on terra firma in Kazakhstan at the weekend, previously listed the Sunday favourite as his top nosh and one he’d dream of most when surviving on a diet of tube-based mush.

The man will be looking forward to some solids and by god there’s a 12kg payload waiting for him to chomp on. Well, sort of.

A food artist has spent 20 hours of her life - time that she’ll never get back - creating a four foot "Gastronaut design".

This feat of humankind includes 2.5kg of roasties, 500g of carrots, 400g of peas, 3kg of cauliflower, 46 Yorkshire puddings, 2.5kg of meat and one litre of gravy.

The Major's local, The Heron, whose parent firm commissioned the work, won’t be serving up the mega dinner to the ‘naut but it has vowed to provide him and his family free roast dinners for life.

Peake will spend the next week undergoing tests to ascertain the impact on his body of living in space, and getting used to gravity again.

Depending on his veg in take, he could muster sufficient energy to propel himself upwards towards the heavans again. Thanks god his preferred grub is not curry. ®