Events

Five Great Gastby inspired evenings

After months of build up and numerous teasing trailers, Baz Luhrmann’s Great Gatsby finally hits our cinema screens next week. A classic novel you must read, set in one of the ...

Five London festivals

Spring has finally sprung, bringing festival season along with it. For London this doesn’t always mean wellies, tents, and singing under the stars. There’s a whole host of festivals going ...

Four ways to enjoy Easter in London

The best bank holiday weekend has arrived! Two lovely four day working weeks but more importantly a four day weekend! That’s four lie-ins, four opportunities to eat brunch, two weekends ...

Our Olympic experiences

The athletes have departed, the stadiums are closed and we’re back to searching the TV for something to enlighten or entertain us in the evening. The London 2012 Olympics are ...

Festival fun at Hackney Weekend

Festival season has begun! Giving us great live music to watch and plenty of festival fashion to enjoy. I was lucky enough to get my hands on a ticket to Radio ...

A story for the grandkids, the Diamond Jubilee

As the official Diamond Jubilee celebrations are behind us it becomes one of those events where every now and again we’ll try to remember what we did (or didn’t) do ...

Plans for a fun Diamond Jubilee

It would be hard not to have noticed Her Royal Highness is reaching 60 years on the throne this weekend, especially in London where most streets are covered in bunting ...

The London Coffee Festival

This morning’s trip to The London Coffee Festival highlighted two things – I don’t know a lot about coffee and I’m a bit of a coffee wimp. You may have ...

London Marathon 2012 – seen through the spectator’s eye

Yesterday one of the first great sporting events for 2012 took place, the London Marathon. This 26.2 mile run takes you through the city’s most iconic buildings, it’s exciting, interesting ...

Happy Chinese New Year from London

As a multi-cultural capital city, London celebrates most of the world’s great events, some of them brilliantly, some of them not so brilliantly. I think Chinese New Year might be ...