not long now…
The season is well underway, the Christmas break looms ever closer and I am getting very much into the Christmas spirit, hastened by a special trip to see everybody’s favourite festive tale of suicide and financial ruin It’s a Wonderful Life at the Prince Charles last Wednesday evening.
I even managed a poke around the Fortnum’s Christmas shop pretending I could afford things on the way, and I will be back at the PCC tomorrow for the Muppet Christmas Carol singalong (followed by the new Godzilla over the road at Cineworld, a sterling double bill and pure dumb luck that I got a seat at the former). I will hopefully get a chance to nip down to Battersea Power Station to see David Hockney’s ipad Christmas trees en route (and if I do, there will be a picture!); at least that’s the plan, and we all know what normally happens to those.
Today marks the start of my final working week before a well deserved few days off, and while it won’t all be R&R (and a lot of F; every December I resolve that I will not spend a ridiculous amount at M&S, Konditor and this year Morrisons, and every December the grocery bill gets higher), I will return next week hopefully rested and revived after what’s been a far busier month than I’d anticipated. I may look even more like a bouncy castle than I do now, but that’s really par for the course, and I doubt I’ll be on my own.
In the name of even more Christmas build up, a fabulous new set of pictures from aerial photographer extraordinaire Jason Hawkes; there are far more to be seen on his website for those who (like me) can’t get enough of a) Christmas lights and b) pictures of London; Winter Wonderland is, not unsurprisingly, visible in quite a lot of them but above it gets it’s own. Conversely, and after a single experience many years ago I can resolutely state that helicopters are not my thing, therefore I’m even more grateful that somebody else wants to do it. Thank you Jason.
A last bit of housekeeping then, I will be packing up in good time on Thursday 21st unless somebody declares their interest by lunchtime or so, and as far as next week goes my phone will be off from then until lunchtime-ish on Thursday 28th. This means that texting at 5pm expecting to turn up at 6pm is not going to happen (not that it does anyway, as a general rule). New Year is currently a play-it-by-ear situation which depends largely on the time I can be bothered to get up on the second of January, so again, I’d advise booking in good time
It’s definitely the other end of the scale from Winter Wonderland and muppets, but Song Of The Week was suitably festive last time and everybody needs a break. There is surely no better background noise for last minute Christmas shopping than a bit of Cypress Hill. I will certainly be employing this and similar for next Saturday morning’s Sainsbury’s trip.
More soon! Go and look at the helicopter pictures…
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