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…
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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…
London Speakeasies
So I’m sure that plenty of people know about speakeasies – hidden bars that you need a password to get into. These originated during the days of prohibition in the States when alcohol was outlawed and so bars needed to be sneaky about serving people and hide from the law. Nowadays the main reason for…
Hampstead Ponds & KERB KingsX
I’ve lived in Camden for 14 years and I have never swam in the ponds on Hampstead Heath. So last weekend my friend fixed this for me. We cycled up to the Heath – luckily working up a sweat as it wasn’t that warm out and despite it being the end of summer the water…
School of Wok bloggers event
Having caught up with my blog on the cooking post finally, I can now catch up on what I did over the last two weeks! This includes the event hosted by Gorkana at School of Wok – this is the first event I’ve been invited to for free (!) but also means it’s not something…