I didn’t expect to be blogging again this year, because I didn’t expect to be going anywhere, but on the 23rd December I helped my son take presents and food over to his girlfriend’s flat to get ready for Christmas. It was mum to the rescue as they had no food for a Christmas dinner. People had gone crazy buying and some supermarket shelves were empty. I gave him some of my vegetables and we wandered around a depleted Waitrose looking for a chicken, but there wasn’t a chicken to be had. All that was left was pheasant or partridge. He decided on the pheasant. Earlier I had managed to secure the purchase of two individual Christmas puddings for them (all large ones had already sold).
My son took me to a part of Canary Wharf that I didn’t know, and it was really pretty. The flat overlooks a basin where various boats are moored. I had to keep stopping to take photos, hoping my battery wouldn’t give up on me as it crept to single figures!
After we dropped off the goodies we did a tour of the lights before coming home. There is always some new public art at Canary Wharf to look at and my son took me to see the famous traffic lights (see below) that I’d heard about but had never seen before.
This was a rather lovely unexpected trip. We were very conscious of Covid rules, but I never felt unsafe. There were no crowds and public transport has always been one of the safest places during this pandemic.
My London+ 