… seen London’s best Christmas lights

Carnaby Street always has some of the most creative and unusual light displays on offer in the capital.

While this year’s illuminations can’t quite square up to the massive paper chains or giant snowmen that have adorned the famous shopping street in the past few years, 2010’s space age offering certainly grabs your attention.

From a distance, it all looks quite realistic set against the night sky – I had to double-take the sunglasses-clad, spacesuit-wearing moon-orbiting Santa to make sure it wasn’t actually a bloke on wires, and by the looks of some of the confused tourists’ faces, I wasn’t the only one.