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Looking back at my ramblings I do seem to have written a fair few regarding drinks, whether they be alcoholic or just restorative and...

Don’t know about you, but my go to in the pub snack department is the good old pork scratchin’, nothing better with a pint. I’ve had a...

Fancy a curry? Today you’ll be spoilt for choice, takeaways and restaurants have proliferate on our high streets for many years, but how...

Sometimes you walk past a building and give it no attention whatsoever, it doesn’t matter how grand or humble it is, it just doesn’t ask...

Philanthropy at Christmas comes in many forms whether it is sending money to an appeal, donating to a food bank or possibly even...

There is at the western end of Fleet Street an opening to an alleyway so small that it is often easy to walk past and not notice it is...

Greek Street, Soho I’ve always found Greek Street in Soho to be a bit of an oasis, if a slightly shabby one when compared to some of it’s...

If you’ve never visited the Museum of London near the Barbican then you’ve got four months to do so as it’s closing. The museum will shut...

It was not my intention to mention turtles again so soon after my last post on the subject titled Cowabunga dude, but I came across some...

“On the contrary! I had two flagons of claret and a double helping of curried turtle! I can assure you: it’s no holds barred with us at...

Sometimes London can leave me feeling slightly bemused, it is a city of contradictions, double meanings and inconsistency, but I always...

While looking at things underground and specially in the last two posts regarding the job known as Toshing, I came across references to...

Shambles is a term for an open air slaughterhouse and meat market. Streets of that name were so called from having been the sites on...

One Word Sunday Brewer Street, Soho #Food #London #OWS #Walking

Question: What is the smallest piece of public art within the City of London? To answer that question let me take you back to the 1860s...

Channeling the spirit of Maria from the sound of music, I’d like to share a couple of favourites things with you. I’m very partial to the...

Last week saw the nuptials of the two inhabitants of Miscellany Mansions, so we now have a piece of paper to say we’re lifelong partners....

Aberdeen Place, St Johns Wood Ok, so not the most inspiring photo, but as they say, “Every picture tells a story”. What you’re looking at...

Six word Saturday St Brides church, Fleet Street It is said that St Brides was the inspiration for the first ever tiered wedding cake....

In a previous life I was involved in the processing and sale of sugar and associated products and so I’m always interested in sticky...