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Happy Christmas, 2011! May the ales be fresh and tasty.

Sun 25th December, 2011 - by editor - Leave a Comment

The snow may not be here this year (how I loved the Brixton snowfall last December!), but it’s Christmas day and that’s a good enough excuse to break open the …

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London / Places

Last minute shoppers on Oxford Street, London

Fri 23rd December, 2011Fri 23rd December, 2011 - by editor - Leave a Comment

With just one shopping day left before Christmas, there’s some frantic last-minute gift buying going on all over London.

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Brixton / Places

Brixton Christmas lights switch on: 4pm Friday, 2nd December

Thu 1st December, 2011Wed 30th November, 2011 - by editor - 1 Comment

Brixton’s Christmas lights are getting switched on this year from 4pm in Windrush Square, central Brixton.

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London / photos

Oxford Street Christmas lights are turned on – in ruddy November, FFS

Wed 9th November, 2011Wed 9th November, 2011 - by editor - 2 Comments.

Here’s a view of the Christmas decorations already up at Oxford Circus. A few days into November! In my mind, the start of December is the earliest anyone should be …

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cardiff / photos / Places / snow / Wales

Cardiff Christmas lights

Fri 31st December, 2010Fri 31st December, 2010 - by editor - 2 Comments.

A few pics taken at night around Cardiff’s city centre, showing off the festive Christmas lights. Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda!

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Our musical Christmas house party

Mon 20th December, 2010Mon 20th December, 2010 - by editor - 1 Comment

It’s now become a Christmas tradition around our house to invite a bunch of folks over for a festive occasion of chat, home-made cakes, mince pies, beer, mulled wine and lots of …

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London / photos / Places

A Victorian Christmas at Dennis Severs’s house, 18 Folgate St, E1

Fri 17th December, 2010Fri 17th December, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Situated close to Spitalfields market, Dennis Severs’s House at 18 Folgate Street is a Georgian terraced house which has been turned into a time capsule. Taking its name from its …

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Brixton / Places

Brixton’s saddest Santa

Wed 15th December, 2010 - by editor - 2 Comments.

Spotted outside the Hootenanny pub on Effra Road, SW2 was this tragically legless – and headless – Santa.

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London / Places

Winter Wonderland, Hyde Park

Wed 23rd December, 2009Mon 15th March, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

I didn’t even know this was going on, but came across it while we were taking in a winter’s walk across Hyde Park. I didn’t expect a lot, but it …

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Brixton / stuff

Carol Singing by Candlelight, Myatts Fields Park

Sun 6th December, 2009 - by editor - Leave a Comment

My first Christmassy thing of the year! Christmas carol singing in a local Victorian park… More pics here

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Brixton / stuff

No festive cheer in Brixton

Thu 18th December, 2008 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Compare and contrast these scenes, seperated by a hundred years. Electric Avenue, 1908: Electric Avenue, 2008: More: Christmas in Brixton, old and new

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Christmas decorations, central London

Sun 23rd November, 2008 - by editor - Leave a Comment

A few photos from Soho… Few more here.

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cardiff / photos / Places / Wales

Cardiff at Christmas

Fri 4th January, 2008Mon 12th April, 2010 - by editor - 1 Comment

Just a few snaps from my brief stay in my home town over Christmas. It’s getting hard to reconcile the city with my memories as it’s being redeveloped so fast. …

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Christmas Lights, NY/London

Mon 24th December, 2007 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Putting Oxford Street’s desperate offering to shame is the gloriously over-the-top display at the Rockefeller Centre, New York: And here’s the feeble lights on London’s Oxford Street.

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Brixton / Clubs & Nightlife / Places

Happy New Year! (Blwyddwyn Newydd Dda )

Mon 2nd January, 2006Tue 13th April, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Eeek! I’m still recovering from last night’s monster mash-up at Unsound in Camberwell – what a session that was – I didn’t get in till 8am and I’ve barely slept …

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