Author: Lowri Griffiths
My Local Council Has Redesigned the Bin Collection Schedule Four Times This Year, and I Genuinely Cannot Tell You What Day It Is Anymore
A modest dispatch from the front lines of London’s most confusing recurring civic mystery: which bin, which day, and why…
The Corner Shop Near Me Has Started Charging for a Carrier Bag AND Judging Me Silently for Needing One
A small, entirely petty dispatch on the specific social theatre of the twenty pence bag charge, six years after it…
I Finally Went to One of Those Silent Discos in a London Park, and I Have Some Genuinely Conflicted Feelings About It
Two hundred people dancing to completely different songs at the same time, in total silence, in a public park. It…
North London Rent Just Overtook My Entire Monthly Food Budget, and I Have Made My Peace With It in the Worst Possible Way
A dispatch on watching your own outgoings quietly rearrange themselves until rent isn’t a line item anymore, it’s the whole…
London Padel Week Just Happened and I Have Never Seen This Many Londoners Voluntarily Learn a New Sport in Public.
Fifty events, five clubs, and an entire city apparently ready to swap five-a-side for something involving a very small racket….
August Is Meant to Be London’s Quiet Restaurant Month. Nobody Told the Chefs, Who Have Opened Six Places I Now Need to Remortgage For.
From a central London pizza slice joint to a long-awaited pop-up comeback, the capital’s kitchens clearly did not get the…
London Is Officially the Fourth Best City on Earth. My Bank Balance Would Like a Word.
Time Out says we’ve climbed a spot. I say ask me again after I’ve paid this month’s gas bill. So…
London’s Gen Z Have Officially Killed the Logo. Stealth Wealth Has Taken Its Throne, and Honestly, Fair Enough.
No more shouting labels. The new status symbol in this city is looking like you didn’t try, which, as any…
Rooftop Saunas Are Now Officially One of the Best Things to Do on Earth. I Went to Find Out If Hackney Agrees With National Geographic.
National Geographic put a Hackney sauna on a list with forest bathing in Japan. I had to see it for…
I Did Five Different Free Walking Tours of London and Ranked Them By Genuine Value
Guide quality varies enormously across the same free tour circuit, tipping etiquette included I Did Five Different Free Walking Tours…
