Greenwich Market is a fantastic place to be. Lots of interesting stalls selling small press books, clothing and jewelry from local designers, interesting handicrafts and a delicious number of food stalls.

I must admit though this is the stall I always seek out...


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Vegan Campaigns is a London based organisation that promotes veganism to the wider community. They hold free-food and information stalls, offer catering, organise the huge London Vegan Festival and, for the last three years, have run The Vegan Pledge.

The Vegan Pledge is where non-vegans choose to become a dietary-vegan for a month. Some people do ( Read more... )

For those who aren't aware, I currently live in the area of Greenwich (South-East London). You may have heard about it from Greenwich Mean Time and the home of the Prime Meridian. It's also home to Greenwich Park which is home to lots of lovely waterfowl, squirrels, deer, the Observatory and the Planetarium. There is also numerous other things to ( Read more... )

I spent a good proportion of yesterday covered in acrylic wool, glue and paint ( Read more... )

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So it was prolificdiarist  's birthday yesterday. To honor the fact she has lived yet another glorious year she organised a vegan cake crawl with C and myself. It's a bit like a pub crawl but instead of going to different pubs and drinking, you go to different places to eat vegan cake...

The afternoon started at Beatroot in Soho. Beatroot are a small cafe that ( Read more... )

The great thing about the London veg scene is that due to numbers and support you can have all those quirky little niche things that you wouldn't get elsewhere. So there is a lesbian vegetarian cafe, a vegan restaurant on a bus, a big rocking festival, pubs that serve vegan society approved beer on tap, a veg cyclist group (that has been meeting ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the London Vegan Festival. It was a busy, crowded, insane day filled with friends, laughter, food and fun ( Read more... )

Under normal circumstances I would have to say that I do not like bus transportation. For long distance travel trains will do nicely, thank you very much.

But tonight I wasn't going anywhere- other than to dinner. This ment going on a bus. An old route master from 1967 to be precise. You know one of those old, red double decker buses you can just ( Read more... )