Yes, here we are in Dublin's fair city – although given that the rain was lashing down and that the street outside the Mansion House where the judging was taking place, was a building site (installation of a new tram service) – Dublin was not that fair. So we were glad to be …
Stop press! Benugo pulls out!!
People power wins!! Benugo has 'stepped aside' from the contract to run the three Hampstead family run cafés. 'We’ve listened, and are responding in the way we think is best for all', said founder Ben Warner. I wonder if the threat from the 25,000 petition signatories to …
City of London held to account
Yes, Hampstead turned out in force last night to hold the City of London to account over the cafés scandale by which the contracts for three of the best loved local heath cafés are to be taken away from the families who have run them for the last 30+ years and handed to the …
Corporation of London acts like corporate monster!
If you don't live around North London you may have escaped the mounting furore that has erupted over the the City of London Corporation's management of Hampstead Heath. Competent and caring custodians of the heath, they would have us believe – yet they are currently behaving …
Natural stress management
Well, actually – this post is mainly about gardens... So, non gardeners, you can log off now. And anyone who has come here to read about my mother's award winning patio garden, skip the first half of my musings about sedum roofs and move straight on down to 'dead heading …