Say it with a kumquat

You really know Christmas is coming when London law firm Collyer-Bristow unveils its alternative Christmas tree, and this year's is something of a corker.

Ben Murdock, a recent graduate from the ceramics department at Edinburgh College of Art, has created a four-foot ceramic tree, featuring, so we are told, 'myriads of delicate cherubs, doves and, apparently, kumquats supervised by the traditional angel (or rather two of them)'.

In a ceremony not unlike the switching on of the lights in Oxford Street - only without the celebrities, crowds or inviting shops - senior partner Roger Woolfe proudly turned on the fairy lights recently and left onlookers whispering 'Kumquats? Eh?'.