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Santa’s Lap: 1930s Modernist London Homes China

Quick, quick, quick: it’s last posting day for the UK so last chance to mail order your Christmas gifts. Get your arse in gear and order some of this awesome china for any Londonophile with an appreciation of modernist architecture and beautiful design.

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Banjo or Freakout Releases Free Christmas Album

If hearing Shakin’ Stevens, Band Aid and Mariah Carey bleating happily about Christmas every five minutes is driving you mad, then we may have a bit of a solution for you.

This brilliant six-wheeled buggy has a 23 button keypad using which you can program its memory with up to 16 commands. With two motors to give it great manoeuvrability, you can just tap in your instructions and see if it ends up where you expected! Great programming fun. Buy here.

Christmas Shopping At The Science Museum

Christmas shopping becomes a pleasure at the Science Museum’s shop, with everything from robots to kinetic artwork to choose from. Perfect for unusual stocking fillers.

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Sponsored Post: Christmas at McDonald’s Piccadilly Circus

The McDonald’s sign amid the iconic lights at Piccadilly Circus has gone festively interactive. Watch this video to see what’s going on.

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The Oubliette Move Into Limelight

The Oubliette Collective have moved into Interim Base 7 on Shaftesbury Avenue at Cambridge Circus, in the building formerly home to the Limelight nightclub and until last year, a Walkabout.

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Santa’s Lap: Cross Stitch London Eye

Every day until Christmas the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won’t already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and we’ll see what we can move from …

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London’s Biggest Gingerbread House @ The Langham

Forget Shard, Heron and Strata, The Langham has just unveiled London’s biggest ever Gingerbread House.

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Santa’s Lap: I Love London Lunchbox

Be the austere envy of the office fridge.

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Preview: Hot Tap Festive Fridays

Hot Tap Theatre, New Cross, get festive on the two Fridays left before Christmas.

A cushion featuring a Tube moquette.

Christmas Shopping At London Transport Museum

London Transport Museum’s gift shop is quite possibly the best place in London to pick up unusual Christmas presents. We’ve rounded up some of our favourites.

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Tweets Of Snow: Model Village Covered By Twitter Snowfall

A splendid model Spitalfields and a Twitter hashtag combine in this fun snow-based idea.