London workers

Thwarted by Westlife

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November 17th 2005
I diligently set off with my digital camera in hand yesterday after work to capture the Christmas lights on the way home from work (making the most of the fact that it is dark by 4.30pm). I got as far as Regent Street and the Ice Age Christmas lights (don't ask me what woolly mammoth's have to do with Christmas I still don't know). I shamed myself in front of Hamley's by stopping in the 5pm ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more