It's Not Even Halloween

Although the ground-floor shops are of the tatty high-street variety, the details on the rest of this building are quite lovely.

We wandered around Highgate this afternoon, looking into the windows of the extremely posh homes (often straight through design-magazine-worthy kitchens into sprawling back gardens), but this was definitely the only sight of its kind that we spotted in any of the windows:

After a nice coffee break, we took a bus (driven by a crazy driver who took advantage of the mostly downhill route to go incredibly quickly, throwing us around in our seats as we read on the upper deck on the bus) most of the way home, and wandered through some lovely parts of Islington for the rest of the way, including the neighbourhood where Louis MacNeice lived from 1947-52.