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Whilst we’re in the heat of summer it’s a great time to enjoy some friendly fun with your friends, family or on a nice date. Whether the weather wants to hold up or not there’s always fun to be had with mini-golf. Not everyone can get into the usual 18 hole golf, it can be long and quiet, and you have to shoot into a normal hole and not a dinosaur mouth or something. When you want to be with friends you want to have fun. Mini-golf has endless themes and has great fun waiting for you. Everyone enjoys getting competitive especially over some ridiculous mini golf game. So here’s a list of some fun spots to get your mini-golf on.  Starting off in South London there is a great 18 hole course. The Dragon Quest Adventure Golf is as you guessed it themed around dragons. There’s dragons, rock caves, monster footprints, and rock paths. You might think this is great for kids and it is, but it’s also fun for those big kids who want to get competitive and have a good time. It’s a large c...

Since London can be so temperamental with the weather and heat we want you to all be prepared for if and when it decides to hit us. There are lots of opportunities to go to indoor pools but say the sun hits and you want to enjoy the sun as if we’re in spain then London has a few outdoor pools to help us enjoy the best bits of summer.  Take a trip down to any of these London outdoor pools, and lidos. Most of them offer more than just a spot to splash about though, with safes, and other exercise facilities, you can go with friends or family and make a day of it! Hampton Pool is a great place to start with outdoor pools as it isn’t as well known as some of the others on this list, but that’s perfect for you to use their pools in peace. It has two heated pools that are always kept perfectly at 28C. The main pool is 36M long and the second one is that bit shorter for children and parents. They have adult only classes and half the pool is always used for lane swimming. So whether...

Drawing is something that absolutely everyone can do, there are many limitations you feel you may come across, but we can assure you there is a way for you to enjoy drawing, lose yourself in it, get creative, and want to come back too. Here’s the thing though, drawing may come along with an art block. Sometimes you may not know what to draw and it just gets the better of you because you think if you;re going to be spending your time drawing it has to be worthwhile with a masterpiece at the end of the time you;ve dedicated to doing it. Drawing can be fun, and just to put some time away, to practise new things, and to simply enjoy in a time where you may not get to do your usual activities. You may be used to drawing, just may have trouble focusing for lo9ng periods of time, I just need to come away from that one piece you;ve been working on for weeks and look at something new. Either way we hope we can help you, we’ve got some interesting ideas.  Starting off with something in...

Having fun at  Easter is something you can do no matter where you are. It may not be as easy to enjoy those classic Easter Egg hunts but you can still make them happen if you try hard enough. We’re coming into a four day weekend, with Bank Holiday Friday and Bank Holiday Monday. So let’s make the most of it all and start celebrating all across the weekend. Now as Easter is a religious event, you can find many articles all about how to celebrate it online. We will be talking about the fun activities you can take part in alone, whomever is in your house with you, or friends and family online too. You can start with dying your Easter Eggs. Even though yes this is seen as a kids activity, there’s no harm in the adults giving it a go, and who knows how competitive it can get too. All you need to do is hard boil your eggs, once you’ve done that you can get creative. You can put water, vinegar, and food colouring into bowls and dip your eggs to get a full colour. You can also use sm...

We’re all adults now and with being adults comes loads of things that just aren’t that fun but we have to do them anyway. Working full time, paying all our bills, looking after our health by not eating four chocolate bars in a row. All boring, but they have to be done. Now not everything has to be so adult though, there are times where we can enjoy ourselves and let go a bit. Now trying to do that at home may not be as easy. You may be able to just sit on your phone, watch TV or read a book wehn at home but we want more for you. There are so many activities we did as kids that we don't actually have to stop doing now. So if you need some fun childish things to do whilst cooped up at home then here’s a few options for you.  Starting off with something that can even be quite relaxing if done right. Colouring. As kids we had to learn how to colour inside the lines and make sure to get the rainbow colors right. Colouring doesn’t need to be so restrictive anymore. There are 1000s...

Whether you like your pancakes sweet or savoury, covered in Nutella, or maple syrup, we’re just around the corner from Pancake Day so make your mind up! There will be some perfect pancake tosses, maybe some not so perfect ones and possibly some on the floor too. Pancake Day has an official name and that is Shrove Tuesday. Shrove Tuesday is a traditional feast day which marks the last day before Lent, traditionally a period of abstinence, that can often involve clearing your cupboards of fats, sugars, eggs, and more. So the easiest way to use up these ingredients comes in the form of pancakes. So, London has taken the opportunity to use Shrove Tuesday to make some of the best pancakes and have some fun too. This year Pancake Day will be on Tuesday the 25th of February, however some places around London have fun pancake related events across this weekend coming too. We’ve got vegan and gluten-free pancakes covered too, so don’t worry! Starting off with some of the fun and festivities...

January blues have come and gone, and the longest gap between paychecks is finally over. There are so many brilliant things to do in February, even though the days aren’t necessarily any brighter, and still definitely just as cold, we can still have fun. Now we’ve got important days like Valentine’s Day and Pancake Day this month, but don’t worry we have seperate blogs for those coming out in the next couple weeks. For now though, we’ve got events every weekend for you to enjoy, festivals, pop-ups and more!  Right round the corner, tomorrow we have the ‘Plant Powered Expo’ coming to Olympia London! The 1st to the 2nd of February! So if you tackled Veganuary or not, you’ve got a chance to head down there and enjoy some amazing vegan foods. Whether the vegan lifestyle is right for, it won’t matter, there’s a great selection of stalls with lots of varieties for you to try out! Now heading over to Kew Gardens, February calls for the the beautiful ‘Orchid Festival’ starting f...

The stunning Christmas lights of London are in full swing, on every street you can see beautiful bright lights celebrating the most festive time of year! London boasts some of the best Christmas lights, however this time we’re not talking about all of the most festive streets like Oxford Street, Carnaby Street and more. We wanted to go a bit more fairytale and a lot less big buildings on long streets. We’ve decided to piece together a few of the most scenic Christmas lights you can see this December.  Starting off with Syon Park Forest which will be lit up like a Christmas tree. A longstanding west London rival to Kew’s display, the woodlands of Syon Park will light up for the winter with an array of colourful lighting displays. This one’s ticketed, so book yourself in on their website.This will be the 14th year that they’ve decided to enchant the 6-century-old woodlands using a spectrum-worth of lights, lasers, strobes, floodlights, and other such modern wizardry. Now over ...

October is only four days away, and that means all of the Halloweeny spooky things are as well. You may believe that Halloween is for one day only but London is spooky all year round. You can’t escape the scares when London has survived everything, including the plagues, the Great Fire of London and a whole lot more. If you’re brave enough to head down to a few of our favourite spooky spots then you can have a great October with a bunch of scares. If you think you’re too old for trick or treating then we have a list of places you can visit, shows to see, and food and drink to get to keep you all in the Halloween spirit. A great place to start and a bone-chilling experience, there is so much to do at the London Bridge Experience. Creepy clowns, menacing spiders, and walls dripping with blood are just a few of the scary things you’ll encounter whilst there. Taking a trip into the Bridge’s history, and going through the haunted London Tombs, this isn’t just a fun attraction but very...

Traditionally, speakeasies were places for illegal boozing that came to prominence during the Prohibition era in 1920s America. But ever since, they have taken on a mythical status: teacups brimming with gin, suave jazz musicians and a glitzy, retro dress code. Here’s our pick of London’s speakeasy-inspired bars.The trend that started in the East End, as these things tend to do, has now swept across the city, with an ever-growing pool of speakeasy-style bars popping up behind nondescript doors, toilet walls and decoy fridges everywhere. Get ready to experience the prohibition years in suitable style, with our guide to the best of London’s American-inspired illicit drinking dens. What follows is a list of the finest tucked-away, secret, hidden, or otherwise nearly-impossible-to-find bars. Or, if you’re reading this for a second time, what follows is a list of bars that were tucked away, secret, hidden, or otherwise nearly-impossible-to-find …but are now as familiar to you as the ...

Whilst we’re still enjoying the best parts of summer, festivals are all around let’s really enjoy some of the most memorable bits of it. The food. You can guarantee that these festivals are making sure to give you the best variety and tastiest options throughout so you can really enjoy yourself. Sometimes a bit of a hefty price tag comes with it but when you’ve been dancing for several hours that price tag can go out the window. So here’s what we’re saying, imagine all the options of all the festivals, and you can try as many of them as possible. We’re talking about food festivals, specifically the best food festivals in London throughout August. The mouth-watering food is the absolute main attraction and we’ve got you covered! Okay, the title here is going to throw you off just the slightest considering we’ve just been talking about food, however this is a great festival, and it’s on right now, and across the weekend. It’s the London Craft Beer Festival. (Don’t worry there’s great...