Every now and then I get a group of friends together and we go for what I call "A Forage on the Foreshore". Yesterday the weather...

Here's a little quiz for Christmas, though unlike  these cards  it has got nothing to do with the time of year or Christmas at all. ...

I am a bit late posting about this as it is sold out already, but what a great idea. Grub Club BYOC is aimed at lonely food loving travell...

At the top of the Mall, in the middle of the road directly outside Buckingham Palace is a Grade I listed monument that most Londoners usua...

A couple of weeks ago I joined a group of blogging friends for one of Flor Unikon's Christmas wreath making classes . As you can see, m...

Today is Black Friday , so named because as the first shopping day after Thanksgiving in the States it marks the start of the Christmas shop...

This intriguing exhibition about one of Canada's best-loved artists has just opened at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Emily Carr spent a ...

Earlier this year I was on my way to one of the monthly London Historians get togethers in the Hoop & Grapes on Farringdon Street when...

I mean, really, what IS the point? More manicules here

I recently went for a walk around the Fenchurch Street area of the City, popping into churches, investigating little streets and alleys and ...

Just some pics I took in the little area of Chelsea that borders the Thames. It's a really interesting area close to the lovely Chelsea...

Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red Just a reminder if you haven't been to see the expanding flood of poppies yet, they will very soon f...

Nicola Baird recently celebrated her 100th post by putting on a staged version at the King's Head Theatre last Saturday. In this one-o...

A multi-porticoed terrace Lower Sloane Square. They aren't short of a bob or two around there are they? So how come the door numbers a...

A few weeks ago I finally found time to visit this once thriving area of London docklands. We met at East India station and walked down...

Earlier this year I posted about Boris Anrep's  mosaics in the National Gallery . Another major London art gallery also has a fabulous ...

Jen had been on about doing this for months. We finally agreed a date and met at Rotherhithe station on Sunday 14th September – a Sunday be...

On Saturday 23rd August I needed to go to the  Old Royal Naval College  to supplement  my stock  at the shop and, because I'd arrange th...

You'd have probably thought I'd be banging on about this being Open House weekend, but I'd booked up for the  Classic Car Boot S...

Following on from a post earlier this year about Surrey Docks , here are some more of my photos taken along the riverside near Rotherhithe a...

I recently went to check out the Veno's Lightning Cough Cure ghostsign that has been revealed due to some renovations on the triangular ...

Lat month I went to East Finchley allotments. Let's keep this short.... It's bloody lovely up there. We dug up things, we pic...

This Sunday come and find me at my stall on Danbury Road bridge at the  Angel Canal Festival . The event takes place around the the local st...

It has recently been reported in the Islington Gazette that the area behind Finsbury Park Station, between Fonthill Road and Wells Terrace i...

Sutton House , Homerton, is North London's oldest residential house. Built in 1535 by a rich courtier of Henry VIII, it's now owned ...