Clockwise from top left: Duck house at Parliament, fireworks at BT Tower, walrus penis bone, shenanigans on Upper Street
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Populist: November 1 - 7
Last Updated 07 November 2009
Populist: November 1 - 7
As the BT Tower was lit up to mark 1,000 days until the Olympics, it was announced that the revolving restaurant at the top of the tower would reopen
The Tokyo-style (or maybe just borrowed from Balham) diagonal crossing at Oxford Street opened
Thousands of manhours were lost as people tried to crack the puzzling periodic table of London
TfL announced that the Circle line extension to Hammersmith will open on December 13th
Boris Johnson literally took the law into his own hands when he rescued a woman from a gang of muggers
Two Beefeaters were suspended for harassing Moira Cameron, the first female Yeoman of the Guard
Parliament is to host its first gay wedding
Salmon-flipping: not a euphemism for an unorthodox sexual practice, but a common type of fare-dodging
Julie Goodyear (aka Bet Lynch) puts in a "carpentry performance" in Calendar Girls
We can't believe it's not Starbucks
Pangolins, a dugong, a thylacine, a qugga, and a walrus penis bone: must be The Grant Museum
Dipping into the world of underground dining with the Fernandez and Leluu Supper Club
A hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold arrived at the British Museum
The new statue on the Fourth Plinth was unveiled
We interviewed Annie Mac, queen of Radio 1's late night Friday show
