Christmas Lights a disappointment.
We spent Saturday (a brilliant sunny day) in London on a Christmas photo shoot and a stroll down Regent's Street to see the Christmas lights – oh dear, as far removed from Christmas as they could be... In fact London was a disapointment when it came to Christmas displays, Harrods windows are James Bond related, and all the other shops have gone for sophisticated window displays with models in evening gowns - not a santa or nativitiy scene to be seen, the only windows showing remotely christmassy were Disney and Hamleys and even they weren't a patch on previous years. I would not recommend it as a pleasant way to spend the day and for the first time we did not take one photo of a window, I wonder what New York has done this year – over dinner someone said it is because of the PC culture which is taking over England.

We had dinner in The Stockpot – and then we split for the evening in London's Westend, I went to see Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, a fabulous show and it was the last night so quite a poignant finish. Laurie went off to see Stomp, It's a combination of music, percussion and dance, performers flip over trash cans and other ordinary objects to generate a symphony of urban noises. A rhythmic collection of beats ...not my type of thing

Friday night we went to the Windsor Theatre to see The Letter Somerset Maugham – a very good production.