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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...

For the last couple of months I’ve been flat out researching, writing and publishing several new audio tours. Combine that with everyday...

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

Possibly one of the weirdest titles for a blog post I’ve made up in a long time, but believe it or not there’s a lot of truth in it....

Perhaps it was the burial of the Blue Peter time capsule in 1971 that first fascinated me about this rather quirky way of linking the...

If you’ve just sat back in your sun lounger in your open toed sandals, long grey socks, tailored shorts and white vest to read your copy...

It’s 1392 and you are a young Galaunt. These were young men, usually of between sixteen and twenty five years old. They were portrayed as...

In my last post I took a look at a group of people that populated London’s streets in the mid 1800s called Patterers. This was the heyday...

I’d heard about Patterers, I knew a bit about them, that is in terms of the job that they did, like a lot of their peers it seemed to be...

“Khalil took the sound as a request, and soon his mouth was on hers, hot and vibrant, firm and needing. Strong, despite that terrible...

To help clear London’s air and improve public health, the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) is expanding across all London boroughs from 29...

This short story fits loosely in with the idiom theme that I’ve been perusing recently. The term is used to mean a disappointment or...

I like to collect and research idioms, although I’m not too sure how to describe them. I suppose a phrase that is used where a meaning is...

For the last month I’ve immersed myself in all thing Soho, as I’m currently publishing an audio tour about the area ( when it’s published...

Probably best I explain from the beginning, Jessie Matthews was an actress, dancer and singer of the 1920s and 1930s, whose career...

It’s 1665 and you’ve caught the coach from York to London and are recuperating at the White Hart Inn on Bishopsgate prior to a business...

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...

Great Marlborough Street runs roughly parallel to Oxford Street emerging into Regent Street. One of it’s most famous confluences is...

In the last post, Hide and Seek in Moorgate, I relayed the story of the run up to the English Civil War and how five members of...