Top 10 Free Carol Services/Concerts
I love listening to carol singing at Christmas and normally try to visit a couple of lunchtime services before finishing with the lighting of the tree in my local church in...
Fit for a Lord – Guest post by Maggie Moncrieff (my Mum)
It has been a very busy, happy year celebrating. In chronological order, as they say, our golden wedding in April, Chris's 80th birthday and recently reaching 50 years of...
Visit to the Government Art Collection
Tucked away off Tottenham Court Road in a nondescript yard can be found a building housing the Government Art Collection which isn't normally open to the public. At any one time...
Freebie Friday
A few years ago before pedestrianisation I, and probably a lot of other Londoners, would never have ventured into Trafalgar Square being a destination primarily it seemed for...
Lord Mayor’s Show 2011
Having lived in London all my life I used to regularly attend the Lord Mayor’s Show with my family when I was a child. However apart from one visit in 1996 after returning from 9...
Chingford: the best place to live in London
I’m always saying (when the subject comes up) that Chingford is the best place to live in London and, yes, Chingford is in London not Essex (just).People are sometimes under the...
Pass the Port
For those “in the know” there are lots of things to do in London that are free or reasonably priced including of course my guided walks (shameless self plug) but you might...
Another successful walk
Unbelievably yesterday was the first time ever that I have led two walks in one day and it definitely won’t be the last.I was leading walks as part of the annual Local London...
A lunchtime wander: Chancery Lane
Following on from my recommended lunchtime spots in Fleet Street my next area to highlight is Chancery Lane. As with my previous post it’s not exhaustive; in fact I know I made a...
Saturday 15th October – FREE WALKS!
Rotherhithe Ramblings
Most London obsessives I know have a “to visit” list which is rather like a “to be read” book pile; it never gets any shorter. When I saw a volunteer spot at one such place...
A lunchtime wander: Fleet Street
My blog post is long overdue so I'm going to do what I love best which is recommending places to go in London starting with a lunch hour in Fleet Street.First of all the pubs ......
A Week of Walks
It's always the same - no events for ages and then everything at once. I am always pretty busy but last week was exceptionally so having attended 3 walks and led one myself in...
A privileged visit
As Visits Organiser for the Westminster Guides Association it's my privilege to organise visits for wherever I want to go, dependent of course on access being granted to us.A few...
An evening with Mike Leigh – on Architecture
As a Westminster Guide I'm interested in buildings. However I wouldn't say I was particularly interested in the technicalities of architecture more about the look of...
An unexpected pub crawl
As someone who lives in London, works in London and is obsessed with London it's always good to have a free day in London with no plans and to see where you end up. As I am...
Historic Books for Cooks
The Guildhall reference library in London EC2 is known by many as the place to research London's history. However their extensive collection of food and wine...
Open City 2010
Working full time during the day as a legal secretary plus working as a walking tour guide means I have little spare time. I must have temporarily forgotten this when I...
Beating the Strike
Discovering that my latest Mayfair walk was on the date of the planned tube strike was not going to force me to cancel it. I had 17 people booked and my thinking was that...
Guiding the Guides
I thought my worst nightmare had come true on Saturday morning whilst waiting to start my St James's walk for some fellow City of Westminster Guides. Waiting for my group in the...
Enjoying London
My list of places to visit in London gets ever longer but as I've had lots of free time recently I've been making a stab at getting to some of them. Funny how my plans...