A Little Stuffed Bull's Christmas in London (in photos)

I want to wish all my readers the very happiest of Christmases! I've had a smashing one here in London.


When I woke up Father Christmas had come during the night! (How did he know I was here?) I got loads of brilliant stuff, like these books on the London Underground!


Oooh, more Underground stuff. Thanks, FC...I really wanted this book and CD!


And the new Goon Show and Just a Minute CDs, and a CD about my favourite Radio 1 disk jockey!


The new Everyman P. G. Wodehouse books! I think Father Christmas has been looking at my Amazon.co.uk wish list!


Bags of Thornton's toffee, the best toffee in the world! One regular and one banana flavour. I don't know which one to try first!


And a Cadbury Dairy Milk Fruit & Nut bar as big as I am! I hope Father Christmas bought me a toothbrush as well.


And Mrs. Weasley made me a new sweater.


After gifts we went out for a morning walk through lovely wild Holland Park...


...and then through the poshest districts of Kensington. Happy Christmas, posh people!


When we got back to the hotel I changed into my good clothes to go down to the restaurant for Christmas luncheon.


Free drinks! I thought this was orange juice but it is alcoholic. Hic!


There were Christmas crackers on every table! I like 'em but I have trouble pulling them open.


We also each got a free festive holiday hat. Mine is kinda big.


Yummy hearty tomato and pepper soup for starters.


Roast turkey with all the trimmings! I did not care for the Brussels sprouts but I thought the bacon-wrapped sausages were v. good.


The whole meal was topped off with a traditional Christmas pudding, plus tiny mince pies just my size!


In summary: it was our best ever Christmas. I hope you all have had as wonderful a holiday as I have. Now I'm off to watch the Doctor Who Christmas special!

Oh, and if you want to see more of my photos, here's a special Chrimble prezzie for you: an index to my holiday snaps so far:

• Day 1: Pizza Express and Kensington High Street
• Day 2: Bloomsbury, Russell Square, Leicester Square, Covent Garden
• Day 3: St Albans
• Day 4: Chelsea and Spitalfields
• Day 5: Christmas presents, Holland Park, Kensington and Christmas luncheon

Plus three specialty albums:

• Pub signs
• Signs of London
• The Cartoon Museum

Holiday snaps!

Busy, exciting, wonderful days means plenty of Londony activity, but less time in front of the Bully laptop than I need to do justice to blogging London the way I want. In plain English, that means: I'm only thirty-six hours into my holiday and I'm already behind on my blogging. Never fear, Bully-boosters: I will blog each and every day, although I may be a day or two or some or more behind at any point. (I hope to be less delayed than last year's London blog, which took almost a year to finish working from my crabby-scrawled hoofwritten notes!) In any case, watch this space, because I will fill in the blanks with rich Londony goodness for each day. It just might not be...ah, the exact day it happens. Yes, I know that in the blogosphere this is considered being a big cheatypants. But I'll get it all up there sooner or later. Good things come to those who wait.

In the meantime, why not check out my London photo sets up at Flickr?
Day 1: 21 December 2006
Day 2: 22 December 2006
My main Flickr page: bookmark this page to check for new photo sets!