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Big Ben Blips and Biscuit Breaks: Diary of a Westminster Watcher, Zeb Hornton 14 January, 2024 Evening chimes echo through the bell chamber, each bong vibrating my bones like a cosmic tuning fork. Big Ben’s hands creep towards midnight, leaving the day behind in a haze of chimney smoke and taxi horns. But for me, perched high above the city’s slumber, the…
Pickled Perfection: Street Art Celebrates National Cornichon Day with a Brined Bite Move over, murals of majestic eagles and whimsical cats! This National Cornichon Day, the streets are getting pickled with a playful splash of street art celebrating the humble, yet beloved, gherkin. From London to Los Angeles, artists are giving the tiny cucumber its due, transforming walls and pavements into canvases for…
Beyond Bacon: Unveiling the Five Most Glorious Sandwich Fillings at Oxford Circus’s Hidden Gem In the heart of London’s bustling Oxford Circus, amidst the usual suspects of tuna mayo and cheese melts, lies a coffee shop harboring a culinary enigma: a haven for adventurous palates yearning for the extraordinary within two slices of bread. Forget your humdrum ham and…
From Sonnets to Swoons: Bard Buff Bites Off More Than He Can Chew (or Comprehend) In a case of literary ambition surpassing cerebral capacity, William “Billy” Bookworm, a 37-year-old Westminster accountant, has landed himself in hospital after attempting to read a Shakespeare play a day for a month. Arriving at St. Bard’s General with a vocabulary so archaic it would…