Last week I plied two of my best and most brilliant single girlfriends with gin and persuaded them to do a guest post for Bloody Hell Brennan. Their mission? To board a train crammed with loads of of single men … Continue reading
Unless you’ve genuinely been living under a rock or a pebble or some other igneous-based den for the past year, you’ll have noticed that the Craft Beer revolution is in FULL SWING. Beer is shaking off its flat-cap wearing CAMRA grandaddy … Continue reading
There’s been a bit of an online hullabaloo about this one. For those who haven’t made it down to see Danielle Tarento’s latest triumph at Southwark Playhouse, a presentation of Pasek and Paul’s Dogfight, based on the 1991 River Phoenix … Continue reading
After spending a week gadding about at the Edinburgh Fringe, gorging myself on pant-wettingly funny comedy, everything from stand-up to sketch, it’s safe to say I was suffering somewhat of a withdrawal. Luckily, the Piccadilly Comedy Club was on hand … Continue reading
Last week I decided to make the most of my newly found (f)unemployment and trundle down to take in a midweek matinee. Is there a greater pleasure I ask you? Sneaking inside a theatre and nestling down among the red … Continue reading
Well, I’ve shaken off my tartan, emptied my rucksack of one bazillion flyers and started the inevitable liver healing process- it can only mean one thing. Edfringe is over again for another year. This year was (as ever) totally riotous, … Continue reading
It can be jolly difficult to really put your stamp on your home when you’re renting, can’t it? Given that London rental prices continue to swell and groan, the idea of actually BUYING somewhere to live is fast becoming an actual … Continue reading
Every Friday night during the Summer, there’s a bit of a shindig going down at London Zoo. Professing itself to be ‘London’s Wildest Night Out’, Zoo Lates offers a festivalesque atmosphere with bars, street food, comedy, cabaret, a silent disco, … Continue reading
I don’t know about you but I always get a bit nervous for the opera. I always get a bit worried it’s going to be very long and arduous and with a sincere lack of tap dancing (I have a … Continue reading
If the tube lines were people, I imagine they’d be a bit like this. District Line A zimmer-framed cranky old Nana who whinges every time she has to do anything. Her joints hurt in the winter and when she is … Continue reading
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of a slightly-above-minimum wage fortune, must be in want of a bloody good burger. London is brimming with places to get your chops round a decent patty at the moment and … Continue reading
Me and some pals wanned to do something t’other night. It was a Friday. We’d finished work for the week. It felt right to celebrate getting through another laborious week in the office. YET we were quite poor and on … Continue reading
Once upon a time there was a girl in Central London. She was confident in her abilities yet consistently unlucky in matters of the heart. She often felt pretty low about herself. One day, whilst she was wandering about her … Continue reading
Only but a few short sweet weeks ago I hopped along to the Savoy Theatre to catch Dirty Rotten Scoundrels in it’s previews. And I HANDILY blogged about it here. I bloody loved the show, with it’s slick, sassy routines and … Continue reading