These were the best Christmas lights in central London for a long time and I just wanted to keep a reminder of them. I wish I had more and better pictures.
Piccadilly angels – Christmas 2017
This is blurry but I did manage also to get in red double deckers and a London taxi. I had just come out of Waterstones, clutching a bag of books, although I could excuse the blurriness by saying I’d been offered too many cocktails – sadly, this was not true.
Blue Angel Wings – Jermyn Street
My favourite angel! Christmas 2017 – Piccadilly, London
I hope they use these again in 2018. So much more inspiring than tawdry, lurid coloured lights, which only emphasise manic, commercial consumption.
Angels remind me of a poem by Christopher Logue (1926 – 2011), which I have always felt a deep connection with. Can’t explain it – something like a haiku …
“Come to the edge,
We might fall,
Come to the edge,
It’s too high!
Come to the edge,
And they came,
And he pushed,
And they flew”
Season’s Greetings to all.