Happy Christmas, 2011! May the ales be fresh and tasty.
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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Last minute shoppers on Oxford Street, London
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 Christmas lights switch on: 4pm Friday, 2nd December
Brixton’s Christmas lights are getting switched on this year from 4pm in Windrush Square, central Brixton.
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Oxford Street Christmas lights are turned on – in ruddy November, FFS
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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Our musical Christmas house party
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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A Victorian Christmas at Dennis Severs’s house, 18 Folgate St, E1
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’s saddest Santa
Spotted outside the Hootenanny pub on Effra Road, SW2 was this tragically legless – and headless – Santa.
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Winter Wonderland, Hyde Park
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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Carol Singing by Candlelight, Myatts Fields Park
My first Christmassy thing of the year! Christmas carol singing in a local Victorian park… More pics here
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No festive cheer in Brixton
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
A few photos from Soho… Few more here.
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Christmas Lights, NY/London
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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Happy New Year! (Blwyddwyn Newydd Dda )
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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