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London, what to do, what I do, it's more interesting than it sounds! Honest!

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  • chutney oclock on Nov 8, 2009

    L.'s Chutney recipe1kg tomatoes, roughly chopped200g shallots, roughly chopped1 big English cooking apple, peeled, cored and chopped100g Sultanasspices (salt pepper all spice) 1/2 t each2 red chillies, deseeded & chopped2.5cm bit of ginger125g dark b...

  • Steak Club on Oct 24, 2009

    Its a simple dream. A search for the finest plate of steak served ever. EVER!Our first steak club met in the cobbled streets of East London, we walked through London Fields to the closed Broadway Market to Buen AyreI shared a plate with D. with a 12o...

  • Lizzie on the Plinth! on Oct 18, 2009

    London, half one on a Wednesday morning in October. I tell you what, there's not a lot to do in Leicester Square! This is one of the only places open, and was thoroughly worth it. It should be on a things to do when in London list.Then L went on the...

  • "history is always the first to go" on Oct 6, 2009

    One of the best things about London has to be the ICA. L & I do day dream about what the best thing that our combined talents could ever come up with, and it would be direct competition to the ICA. Our bar would be better and there would be somewhere...

  • TV at work. on Oct 4, 2009

    This is the second every 21:9 telly to come into England, and one of 6 in Europe at the moment. At around 6 grand it offers cinema like viewing for the first time. Apparently 16:9 is technology borne of a mistake. That the basic crt started at 4:3 an...

  • mushrooms and chestnuts on Oct 4, 2009

    Hampstead Heath. Its pretty much London's window into the past. We all know that Lewis came here, saw a gas lit lamp in the snow, went home and wrote that wonderful scene- we know that Spacey lost his phone while innocently taking his ailing dog on i...

  • open house London on Sep 23, 2009

    For those of you who haven't been to London- the Lloyds building has a mostly aluminium alien feel to it, with its exoskeleton type lifts that ferry suits up the sides of its building and the feeling that you really can't just go in and say hello, th...