Martin Brookes Oakham: John Lewis

Tuesday, November 01, 2011

John Lewis, Christmas Decorations, Highcross Shopping Centre , Leicester, 2011, Photographs

John Lewis looking more traditional this Christmas, I do wish the Highcross centre would ditch those pink tubes they hang each year, they look like they could be up all year.

Kirstie's Homemade Home, Channel Four, Kirstie Allsopp, John Lewis, Highcross, Leicester

Kirstie's Homemade Home, Channel Four, Kirstie Allsopp, John Lewis, Highcross, Leicester.

This is posted especially for Kirstie Allsopp who re-tweeted my Land Rover Photo set a few months ago the power of celebrity tweets gained me thousands of extra hits, thanks

Her book looks very Christmas like sitting in John Lewis's window display. Like they say on TV there are other good books shop where this is available.

I imagine it will be in the W H Smith half price Christmas sale or is that just autobiography's?

And in the New Year your local Oxfam or charity book shop section.

Saturday, December 04, 2010

Paddington Bear Shopping at John Lewis

Paddington Bear Shopping at John Lewis Department Store.

Paddington Bear travelled from somewhere far away

and found himself at Peterborough John Lewis

Paddington was a little tired so he found a comfortable

chair in the furniture department, he hoped the

staff would not mind if he left his boot on.

After his rest Paddington was hungry

so he went and found some cake

John Lewis Place To Eat

After all that cake Paddington was very

pleased to take a rest in the bed department

Paddington was very pleased to find marmalade

no Marmite to be seen.

The only thing missing was bread

for his favourite marmalade sandwiches

will he make it to the M & S Food Hall

If you want to give Paddington a home there

seems to be many clones of him at

£24.99

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Paddington Station: Bronze statue of Paddington Bear, by Marcus Cornish

Paddington Bear is a fictional character in children's literature. He first appeared on 13 October 1958^[1] and was subsequently featured in several books, most recently in 2008, written by Michael Bond and first illustrated by Peggy Fortnum. The polite immigrant bear from Darkest Peru, with his old hat, battered suitcase, duffle coat and love of marmalade sandwiches has become a classic character from English children's literature.^[2] Paddington books have been translated into thirty languages across seventy titles and sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. Over 265 licences, making thousands of different products across the United Kingdom, Europe, United States, Southeast Asia, Japan, Australia and South Africa all benefit from the universal recognition of Paddington Bear.^[3]
Paddington is an anthropomorphised bear. He is always polite (always addressing people as "Mr.", "Mrs." and "Miss" and very rarely by first names) and well-meaning (though he inflicts very hard stares indeed on those who incur his disapproval). He likes marmalade sandwiches and cocoa, and has an endless capacity for getting into trouble. However, he is known to "try so hard to get things right". He is an adoptive member of the (human) Brown family, and thus gives his full name as Paddington Brown.