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Ciao Chow Canine Bakery – an inter species dinner

Ciao Chow Canine Bakery – an inter species dinner

A tweet from @Ciaochowbakery had caught my eye – a bakery for London dogs and their human companions! Their mission statement even more tempting: ‘In response to years of Frappucino envy, a Kickstarter campaign is helping London’s canine population to fund a café to call their own. No longer will they be ignored, leashed to a lamp post (or worse yet, confined to a handbag) while their caregivers scoff biscotti and swill skinny lattes. Dogs in the know will be…

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Doggy Sunday at the Gaucho Grill

Doggy Sunday at the Gaucho Grill

Since our lovely pooch Amber joined our household in January, we have been finding out how difficult it is, in a nation (allegedly) of dog lovers, to actually find places where a dog is welcome. Forget food shops and supermarkets, and see how difficult it is to even take your pooch with you when shopping for non-groceries or going to the bank.  Thankfully there are a few dog friendly retailers and also a few restaurants. The website Doggity is a…

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Sustainable Cooking class with Andrew Kojima

Sustainable Cooking class with Andrew Kojima

Every year in my work place I am fortunate to be able to run a dress down and raffle in support of Marine Conservation Society. This usually happens in June, to coincide with World Oceans Day, a global event to raise awareness of how important and amazing our oceans are. In the last couple of years we have also been organising an evening event for a small number of colleagues not only to improve ‘networking’ across business units (it’s a…

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Spanish Breakfast Masterclass on the Southbank

Spanish Breakfast Masterclass on the Southbank

May is a pleasant month in the UK – usually the weather is starting to turn nicer (usually… ) and there are two bank holidays to make the working weeks a bit shorter.  This year, on the first of these long weekends, the Southbank turned Spanish with Streets of Spain, a food and wine event sponsored by Campo Viejo. Celebrated Spanish wine brand, Campo Viejo, brought the atmosphere, colours and tastes of Spain to the streets of London with its…

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Coffee Masterclass at Caffe’ Fratelli

Coffee Masterclass at Caffe’ Fratelli

If you go to Starbucks and you get a good coffee, there is something wrong” [cit.] The coffee scene has become painfully trendy (and a bit snobbish, to be honest) recently.  It certainly wasn’t so back in the early 90s, when a young Neapolitan twenty something (me) landed in London with nothing planned but to have some fun.  And fun I was to have, when I got my first paid job in the second branch of a then very small…

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