Dinosaur Wellies and a Santa Cake

As you might expect, my random neighborhood photos have lately taken on a holiday theme -- which means I'd better post them now! Above, a Santa cake in the window of a bakery around the corner. We've bought cupcakes at this bakery, because I do try to support the neighborhood establishments, but they've been hit-or-miss.

This pair of dinosaur-themed, kid-sized wellies was sitting outside the front door of a building on West End Lane. They are cute and if I were a kid I'd have loved them, even though they look none too clean. (They're wellies -- surely they clean up pretty easily?)

A discarded, and thus apparently feral, oven-hotplate combo? Again, none too clean.

This was an advertisement in the tube for a company that will bring you groceries on demand. The idea is that rather than raising your tap water, you could have them bring you wine at the last minute. But I was mostly confused about "tapwater" as a single word -- isn't it two words?

Not one but TWO pairs of glittery gold high-heeled shoes in the window of a local charity shop. I guess if you're going to unload donated gold and red shoes, this is a good time of year to do it.

A push-toy, helpfully labeled, discarded by a trash can on a nearby housing estate. My first thought was that Ms. Moon's grandson Levon would get a kick out of it, but it looks like it's seen better days. Maybe someone else adopted it.

A curious sign discarded along my walk to work. Are they apologizing for their own bullying? In what context would someone hold this sign?

And finally, our tiresome anti-vaxx local graffiti writer is at it again -- this was painted along a wall on Finchley Road. The pandemic is still raging, so who says we've done enough? It seems clear that we still have more to do.