Christmas seems like it comes earlier every year.

The one event that I’ve never been to during my time in London is a Christmas Lights’ Switch On at Oxford Street. It was pretty exciting though the streets were seriously crowded. Sandra and I got there for 5.30 and even though the lights weren’t being switched on until 6.30 the closest we could get to the stage for the switch on was about 50 metres away. Just as well they had giant screens!

This year’s celebrity switch on was hosted by Jason Donovan and Harriot Scott from Heart Radio 106.2. The celeb to switch on the light was Jim Carrey (!) but before he came on there was also musical support in the form of the Sister Act cast, Peter Andre (we didn’t see either of these two perform) and then Taio Cruz and the Saturdays.

After the lights were switched on with not that much fanfare actually. At the end of it we all participated in an attempt to set a Guinness World Record: for biggest ever Christmas Carol sung (led by Andrea Bocelli.)