I have a cast-iron excuse not to go for a walk today, because I am awaiting the arrival of a dog (only for the afternoon; in this case a dog is just for Christmas, not for life). In the meantime I am vaguely contemplating taking the tree down before it gives up the ghost completely and all the ornaments fall off, but I think I can eke it out until Monday, which is the day before I go back to work and therefore the proper day to take the decorations down and fill the house instead with early spring flowers – a tip I got from Richard Madeley, of course.
So today I think I’ll use up the Christmas cheeses on a Hawksmoor-recipe macaroni cheese (I have experimented with various recipes and this one is the best, although I will be using different cheeses from theirs and a mix of semi-skimmed milk and double cream rather than full-fat milk, because I have some of both to use up and it’s Christmas so everything should have double cream in it) and catch up on the TV Christmas Specials I have missed. If you don’t have anything more pressing, I suggest you do the same, but either way it’ll take you mere moments to enjoy advent windows 9-16, with apologies for the peculiar angle of day 10, which I couldn’t get closer to because an angry man was parked in front of it.
Day 9: Greenwich Station (south window) 
Greenwich station (north window) 
Day 10: James Wolfe Primary School (Royal Hill site), at an awkward angle 
Day 11: Pickwick Papers, Nelson Road. I still don’t really know what this shop sells but I like it! 
Day 12: St Alfege Children’s Church 
Day 13: Ben Oakley Gallery, Greenwich Market: it took me two attempts on two nights to find this place. Was it worth it? You decide. 
Day 14: 28 King George Street. Understated. 
Day 15: The Cutty Sark (the ship, not the pub). I don’t know what the sheep is for. 
Day 15: 59 Randall Place. As far as I could make out, the polaroids are in homage to the theatre industry.
Glad All Over 