FREE Walks – Local London Guiding Day – 11/10/2014
Save the date - Saturday 11th October is this year's Local London Guiding Day. This is the fifth year running that London's four local guiding associations - City of...
Twitter – A Beginner’s Guide (Updated for 2014)
Twitter has improved in the 2 years since I wrote my original post so I have updated it (with screenshots this time thanks to the amazingly useful Dropbox).I am rather...
Geneva – an unexpected treat
Until a friend moved to Geneva earlier this year the city didn't have a place on my "to visit" list. It had been somewhere I had passed through on my way to various ski...
Soho Summer Strolls
When I started working as a tour guide I tended to avoid Soho with its narrow streets and busy pavements. However over the past 18 months or so I have developed a couple of...
New pub discoveries
There has been an unexcusable gap in my blog postings recently mostly because I am doing too much. I am still looking for the perfect work/life balance - a part-time job rather...
A Soho singalong
On Tuesday night this week, rather by accident, I did something I've never done before - I took part in a singalong around the old Joanna.I arrived at the Coach & Horses,...
New competition – Win 2 places on one of my walks!
Where in London can you find this sculpture?I posted this picture on Twitter at lunchtime today with that very question. I've had a couple of re-tweets but no correct...
Sculptures, Scones & Shh – some of my London discoveries
It's only since qualifying as a tour guide in 2009 that I have realised just how much there is to see and do in London, and how much of it is free. In the past few years I...
Random Acts of Kindness in WC2
I am sure it was via Twitter that I kept seeing the area of St Martin's Courtyard cropping up. As a Westminster Guide I was ashamed to say I didn't recognise the street so set...
The Road to Recovery & Better Health!
Injuring my foot in June this year whilst on a walk in Walthamstow was not a good thing to happen to a tour guide. I cancelled walks, I gave away walks to other guiding...
Top 10 Free Carol Concerts 2013
This is the third year running I've produced a list of free carol concerts and services in London. I am already getting a number of views on my now out-of-date lists so the time...
Have you any Wool? – Guest post by Maggie Moncrieff (my Mum)
As students at Sadlers Wells we shared the dressing rooms with fully-fledged members of the company. For some reason I was resting on a bench recovering from a sick turn when the...
My Desert Island Meal (in Mayfair!)
Seeing as many of my walks are food and drink themed and usually include a recommendation or two for hidden cafes, unusual afternoon teas or the like people are often surprised...
FREE Walks – Local London Guiding Day 2013
It's that time of the year again when the local London guiding associations get together for a day of free walks. This year's theme is Scandals, Secrets and Suspense!On Saturday...
A day with the RNLI (in London)
I am one of those unfortunate people who suffers from travel sickness so I can't read in traffic nor sit backwards on buses which rules out at least 8 of the seats on the new...
A lunchtime wander: Westminster
In my other job (the one that pays the bills) I temp as a legal secretary. In the past few months I have been working in the immediate vicinity of Westminster Abbey which is...
A Woodford Wine Experience
Some of the best experiences are when you end up somewhere by accident. Just over a month ago on a day when my foot was still pretty painful I decided on the spur of the moment...
Amazing London: Three Mills, Bow
I wrote this post a year ago but Makers at the Mill is on again now so am re-posting with details of this year's exhibition in the text.Coming out of the tube at Bromley-by-Bow...
Westminster Talks by Chris Moncrieff (my Dad)
This is an update of a post I wrote last year.Some followers may know that my Dad is Chris Moncrieff who has been a journalist for the Press Association for over 50 years and...
A rather Royal Tea
Being as I am obsessed with afternoon teas I occasionally get invited to tea themed events. Last year as a result of mentioning The Athenaeum Hotel in a blog post about my Top 3...
Music for a Summer Evening
Since creating my two local walks (in Walthamstow and in Chingford) as part of the Appetite Festival (on until the end of June) I have become much more focused on local events...