Window Shopping

Fortnum & Mason, November 2020.

The biggest Advent calendar in London?

Fortnum & Mason, November 2020.

The table is laid for a legal six for Christmas dinner, side by side by Santa.

Heywood Hill, November 2020.

It is open to debate as to whether these are the best of the best. No sign of my favourite, Hot Water.

Geo F Trumper, November 2020.

Dog Wash? No Bertie, you have an Advent calendar and you will not find dog wash in your stocking.

November 2020.

Meanwhile, closer to home, the (Labour) Mayor of London has declined to intervene in the (Labour) Hammersmith and Fulham Council’s decision to grant planning permission for two hotels and demolition of the existing building has commenced. The Mayor sent me an email informing me of his decision and the lackey who wrote the letter for him couldn’t be bothered to update the template, so I was told I’d objected to a development in Dolphin Square, doh!

7-spot, Orange, Harlequin, cream-spot, 2-spot, 10-spot, Pine, Kidney-spot, 14-spot, 22-spot and Heather have all been seen in Margravine Cemetery by Nathalie. You may think they are the monickers of the youths who hang out in the cemetery to socialise. No you don’t – you know they are ladybirds. They eat aphids, lichen and each other.