Mouse Hole Update

(If you missed the original Christmas mouse hole post, read it here first.)

We checked on “our” mouse hole this week, and discovered a gift had been delivered to the mice.

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Naughty or Nice?

In London at Christmastime, you can be both, all in one packed week. I’m clearly setting out to confuse Father Christmas right down to the deadline.

Remember the long weekend this summer when I did All the Things? This was the week in which I did All the Christmas Things.

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Trafalgar Square looking glam

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Christmas Is Coming to London: Here’s How You Know

Frosted Range Rover windscreens… fur-trimmed Canada Goose coats… cockapoos in Christmas jumpers… and another Christmas season in SW11 Between the Commons is upon us.

b9955e93-dd6e-4622-9e3d-abfed93c0096It happens fast after Halloween. First there’s Guy Fawkes Day/Bonfire Night. Remember, remember the 5th of November, gunpowder, treason, and plot. We went to Battersea Park for the fireworks and bonfire again this year, and got lucky it stopped raining in time! Continue reading

Ice Skating and Father Christmas

The first weekend in December was a busy one here in London! On Saturday morning, I took E ice skating at Somerset House. She enjoyed it so much last year in Vienna, I wanted to take her again this Christmas season.

As I previously mentioned, with Christmas activities in London, you need to book well ahead, or else things sell out. But that means you run the risk of it pouring down rain the morning of your ice skating time slot, as it was this Saturday.

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