STOP PRESS: Charlotte Cory's 2010 Christmas card for the Sir John Soane Museum: (these cards are available from the museum shop and are sold in aid of the restoration fund, a pack of 5 cards for £6.50; and limited edition copies of the print are available from the Rebecca Hossack Gallery, all profits to the restoration fund)

The Sir John Soane Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields round the back of Holborn Underground station is my favourite place in the world. The Monk's Parlour (pictured above) was Sir John's favourite place - how lucky I was to find Rudolph there when I went to take a photograph....