‘I’m at my desk by 9am. I even write on Christmas Day’

Michael Bond, author of the Paddington stories, on living in London and listening in to other people’s conversationsI have been writing every day of my life, seven days a week, for almost 50 years. Even Christmas Day. But I still enjoy it. I have lived in the same house for the last 30 years and I have written in the same room ever since. When I first came to London, I went on a canal boat ride in Little Venice and I remember going past the street where I live now, thinking: &ldq