London blue

Into Central London for a couple of things - and was struck by the blueness of the sky, and the blueness of a building.  Above are the Christmas lights that are hanging over the Seven Dials monument: back in the mid nineteenth century, this was the site of one of the most notorious slums in London.  Now it's all trendy boutiques and restaurants ... close to this building below there used to be a decidedly untrendy Indian restaurant - but it was cheap - very cheap - and close to what was then the British Museum Reading Room, so very useful if one was a graduate student - but I think the last time I went to it, sometime in the 1970s, was when a mouse ran over my foot at lunchtime ...