London video of the day: bang the drum loudly
The Croydon Steel Orchestra, playing the other day near the East Croydon rail station.
The Croydon Steel Orchestra, playing the other day near the East Croydon rail station.
I was at the O2 arena tonight for Duran Duran live on stage. Lemme tell ya, if you’ve never been in a crowd of 20,000 40something women all having orgasms during “Hungry Like the Wolf,” you have not lived.
Selfridges on Oxford Street is going for a Versailles-before-the-Revolution motif for Christmas…
Oxford Street, surely one of London’s busiest roads, but also definitely one of London busiest shopping areas, is closed to vehicular traffic this weekend and opened to pedestrians in an attempt to encourage holiday shopping.
The BBC Radio 4 studio yesterday, decked out for Christmas even though this could not be captured by microphone.
Christmas hampers from Fortnum and Mason always make me think of Mrs. Pumphrey and Tricki Woo from All Creatures Great and Small…
The Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square, a gift every year from the people of Oslo.
He Who Must Not Be Named and Harry Potter battle for supremacy of the HMV in Piccadilly Circus.
The Ritz Hotel all decked out for the holidays.
I overheard two little girls the other day scream — with delight, not terror — that there was a monster on this building in Chinatown.