I love the anarchic little link boys. Sure, let's give children flaming torches and expect them to run into traffic in extremely poor visibility. Character building.

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Misty Bridge fits this week's mist and fog theme beautifully — del Pozo has a real gift for that moment when a London bridge stops being architecture and becomes atmosphere. The structure holds, the city dissolves.

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'December Fog at Twilight' is such a London subject — Blackheath going soft at the edges, the light giving up gracefully. Fog doesn't empty a landscape, it edits it, and Hope clearly knows what to leave in.

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The overture of the (wonderful) musical Paddington, Mr. Gruber singing: "Welcome to my shop of curiosities. Finding homes for these things I find. Every single shelf is full of mysteries...." When you hear this, you are immediately in the mood for the moving story.

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Oh wonderful, another theme that is right up my street.

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