Ok – so it’s not that cold just yet but October is actually remembering it’s October, and after that random heatwave (which took my wardrobe by surprise) it’s finally showing signs of the change of season. I love wrapping up warm when it gets cold in London, and the time is fast approaching to get a Winter Cycling Wardrobe in order. Having yesterday off work, I took the opportunity to have a look around Westfield Stratford City and discovered two things about it – 1) it’s much nicer to go in there on a weekday instead of a Saturday (nightmarish busy madness) & 2) there are some decent shops in there to pick up […]

The 11th global Bicycle Film Festival touched down for it London-leg last week, and thanks to the awesome girls over on Pamflet (it’s an excellent Zine – if you’re not reading it, you really should be…) I won tickets to one of the film screenings! I took my ‘Plus One’ (The Boy) with me to the Barbican Centre last Sunday to see the 2pm screening of ‘By Women About Women’ – a selection of ace short films, which lead into the main feature, ‘Labour of Love’. This was a documentary by Virgina Hastings, who followed the Canadian “ultra-cyclist” Caroline van den Bulk as she attempts to complete the RAAM (Race Across America) […]

 What do you get when you cross the opportunity to ride around one of the nicest boroughs in London with the chance to eat some rather lovely cakes? A lot of keen cyclists attending the first public BikemindedRBKC Cake & Coffee Cruise! After the success of the inaugural ride for invited Bloggers, me and The Boy* attended the public ride last Saturday. Tickets sold out for the event which was brilliant news! It was fantastic to see such a huge turn out for the ride (and Super-Kathryn above, checking them all in) especially knowing what an absolute treat everyone was going to get for their £5… The meeting-point for the day was of course Pedlars for […]

 It has been a rather busy week so far… and I’m pleased to say that it has all been fun social events & not work related now the mad period in the office has finished! The first thing to keep me happily busy was the official launch party for the new Tatty Devine book, “How To Make Jewellery With Tatty Devine“. I received a tweet from Team-Tatty inviting me to the event, so I got together with my lovely Tina and headed over to the event on Wednesday evening. The launch party was held in Drink, Shop & Do (a lovely boutique that I must make a cycle return on the Pashley to […]

 After all the ideas and planning, the inaugural BikemindedRBKC Cake & Coffee Cruise took place on the 24th September. Having taken part in the practice-cycle with Kathryn a few weeks ago, I was very excited about how the event would go with the group of invited cyclists & bloggers on the day. The Boy* and I arrived at Pedlars which was the meeting place for the Cruise, and were welcomed by a scene of bicycles & a lot of chic looking cyclists! Beautiful sunshine and smiles appeared to be the order of the day as we had a meet-and-greet session outside over some Flat Whites with our fellow riders. This was a […]