It’s 15˚ Celcius outside. The sun beats down on a green landscape as dogs race, squirrels skitter, pigeons peck and ducks waddle. Children on scooters zip past, and mothers of babies in carriages gab as [...]
Life & Style Articles
Behind the Cider Bar at Battersea Beer Festival
CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) The “Campaign for Real Ale” (CAMRA) began in 1971, inspired by four English “blokes” (guys) with a mission to “campaign for real ale, pubs and drinkers rights.” Today CAMRA has approximately 146,000 [...]
Twisted Vintage Jewellery
Is the school gate the new boardroom? It seems these days that many a business venture is born out of the daily grind, I mean joy, of taking the kids to school. Ever resourceful, around [...]
Blogging from Dulwich Park
Dulwich Park on trend with snow menageries For this year’s outbreak of snow, the press reported a nationwide trend away from the traditional snowman to more ambitious creations, including snow animals. Dulwich Park had its [...]
Forest Hill Fashion Week – 15-19 February
You’ve been to Paris, New York and Milan Fashion Weeks; well, now there is one right on your door step. Strike a pose this week at Forest Hill’s Fashion Week, 15-19 February. Forest Hill Fashion [...]
Redeem the Swede!
Local Greens, a not for profit, local, weekly veg bag scheme in Southeast London, will be holding a swede recipe contest on February 10 at the Herne Hill Market in Railton Road. Our celebrity guest [...]
Walking, talking and drawing
Talking Walking celebrates its 5th birthday with Foster Spragge It was at a Walking and Art residency at the Banff Centre in the Canadian Rockies in 2007 that Andrew Stuck had the idea for Talking Walking [...]
Smog hits our green lungs once again
Look at a map of south London and you’ll see its many ‘green lungs’: parks, playing fields, allotments, woods and cemeteries. From the street, you can spot dozens of smaller pockets of greenery: front and [...]
