Two New Tours published in October, check out the tours page

It's strange, you think you know somewhere and then out of the blue a fact turns up and the location takes on a different vibe. Take the...

I recently came across a story while I was researching a new audio tour set in the area of Clerkenwell. I've included it here as there...

Bacon, I’m lead to believe was invented by the Chinese, who salted pork belly to aid it’s keeping around 1500 BCE. Before the Industrial...

On a roll with this terrible punning (if that's the proper term for it?) In the last post I possibly hinted at my dislike of a horrendous...

Apologies, the terrible pun will be revealed as you read this post. If there's one part of the City which I personally despise, and I've...

For the last two weeks spare waking hours, which have been at a premium have been taken up with the overhaul of my A London Miscellany...

It seems to me that it's a repeated trait of Londoners from the past to corrupt words or places and to put the worse spin possible on...

Story 1: Too much information It often happens, while researching for my tours sometimes a glut of information turns up for for a...

Always a must for matrimonial harmony I believe. Life could be rather difficult should you fall foul of your partners parents, here's a...

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...