Those of you who read Stylist as avidly as I do may have seen & signed up for their brunch club via the Emerald Street email. The idea of this is every week they promote a different place to have brunch with some sort of special deal thrown in for us as a sweetener. So…
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Stylist Cover Exhibition
Thursday I had a spare half hour whilst I was out near Covent Garden, so I decided to pop into the Stylist Cover exhibition in Charing Cross. At Proud Central gallery on John Adam street they are showing some of the original art work as well as insight into the creative process to come up…
Frieze Sculpture Park
Last weekend I decided to enjoy the unseasonably warm autumnal weather with a walk around Regents Park. Whilst there I walked past the huge hanger set up for the Frieze Masters art fair. Tickets had all sold out for this, but there was a free alternative – the Sculpture Park open to all further on…
Greenhook Gin tasting
Greenhook gin is the gin of the month at the Oliver Conquest for October, so Gin Club with a Reading Problem decided to go along to the FREE gin tasting 🙂 Daniella from Amathus drinks gave us a brief talk about the history of gin and then Siobhan from the Oliver Conquest talked more specifically…
Gin Aroma Academy
Gin Club (well Catherine and I) attended the Gin Aromas event at the Wine and Spirits Education Trust (WSET) on Bermondsey street. The lovely Kim Lahiri from the Aromas Academy explained how they came up with their aromas and how these could then be used as standardised aromas for educating and calibrating the nose. Dr…
LCW Hub @ Seven Dials
On Thursday I popped into the London Cocktail Week Seven Dials hub on Earlham Street to get the most out of my free wristband. I signed up for the Zacapa Rum multi sensory experience – a 45 minute tasting experience – I had seen loads of happy customers coming out of this saying how good…
Cocktail crawls with #LCW14
Forget Friday – every night is the cocktail night this week! Earlham street decorated for LCW! This week, 6-12 October 2014, is London Cocktail Week and seeing as I don’t have a job yet I volunteered to help them out from the goodness of my heart – oh and in exchange for a free wrist…
Spark Stories
Last Thursday I helped out at a new Spark night at Exmouth Market Theatre. In return for manning the door I got free entry to watch the show 🙂 For this new evening from Spark they invited some of their favourite speakers back to tell a story around the theme of Derring Do. These varied…
Poppy project at tower of london
A fantastic experience, for a great cause… Last weekend my friend Alex managed to arrange for a group of us to go plant poppies around the Tower of London. This is a special installation to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the start of the First World War. Artist Paul Cummins created the poppies with…
DF | Mexico & Gin-age
As my stalkers were in town pre Lee Evans comedy show and they came into Liverpool Street I took the opportunity to take them to DF Mexico at the back of the Old Truman Brewery on Hanbury Street. I’ve been dying to go here since they launched and finally I’ve made it!! DF stands for…