Tucked away up a narrow flight of stairs above the Soho bookshop on Charing Cross road is a little designer bookshop specialising in fashion and art books, many of which are hard to find. It is also home to a vast collection of the kinds of glossy magazines that no one ever reads as they [...]

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Let me start by saying that I generally hate museums. I find things in glass cases painfully dull. Whenever I visit a new city I’m honestly more inclined to check out the the supermarkets and cafes. On a recent trip to Washington DC, of all the wealth of museums on offer I only went to [...]

I don’t go to galleries very often. This is generally because I HATE THEM. I invariably walk in the front door do a 360 degree spin and walk out again but not without commenting, hopefully within earshot of gallerist/artist/owner whoever, that I can’t understand how the artist could stand back, look at their arrangement [...]

I honestly can’t think of a better way to waste time than going to an art gallery and sometimes I feel like wasting time and on these occasions I come to the Tate Modern. Having said that the crap of the walls is too painful to bear so I generally bypass it entirely (after [...]

As a rule I hate all sports and bowling is no exception. Like karaoke people always seem to think that bowling will bit ‘rilly rilly fun’ so I’ve been dragged out more times than I’d like to mention. Every time I’ve been here it’s for someone’s birthday but despite the fact it’s such a cheesy [...]

Now I know I said that I wouldn’t mention parks and the only reason I mention Hampstead Heath is because I got lost there the other day trying to find Kenwood House with Drage who wouldn’t admit he had no idea where he was going. Well I decided that on a sunny day it’s worth [...]

Selfridges always serves to remind me that money does not buy happiness. Yet it’s not happiness I want it’s money. On every visit I mentally spend hundreds of pounds. This department store (for want of a better term) is the best in the world. Forget dowdy and dated can’t move for the fat tourists Harrods [...]

Okay so perhaps Liberty is the most perfect shop in London. It’s like Selfridges just smaller and more edited. They sell the most beautiful stuff, Diptyque perfume, Prestat chocolate, Aesop cosmetics all housed in an amazing Tudor building. It should have “Dreams are the only luxury of the poor” as its motto. I adore [...]

BFI Southbank is kind of a one-stop shop for going out, you can get dinner here, drinks and go to the cinema. It’s the best thing on the Southbank and I thought an appropriate place to go with my Mother as I thought it would be minimal stress as everything was in one place. Well [...]

So once a year I turn a year older and my darling sister softens the blow by taking me to the restaurant of my choice. This year it was Sketch Gallery. I’m already a huge fan of Sketch, it can do no wrong in my book despite the fact that people think it’s ridiculous and [...]

Someone told me once that there was an island in the Thames down by Twickenham only accessible by footbridge where there were art studios to rent. I soon discovered that many of these ‘art studios’ were in fact dilapidated old boats hauled up onto dry land and abandoned left sitting at a jaunty angle, it’s [...]

It’s not much more than a window display really and by that I mean it’s rarely open, just has a sign with a phone number if there are any enquiries but they never answer the phone. The huge glass windows showcase a menagerie of weird and amazing creatures staring at you through dead glass eyes. [...]

Drina is going to America for the first time and in order to get her into the true spirit of American eating I paid a visit to Cyber Candy, the Holy Grail of sugar in every colour, shape and form. It’s the place to come for your Lucky Charms, Junior Mints, Root Beer, Cream Soda, [...]

It didn’t need Kate Moss to make this the most popular clothes shopping spot in London and I doubt I even need to mention it, even to those not from here but to anyone who stumbles across my little guide it would be a shame for you to miss it. I can’t lie, at least [...]