With the first snowfall in London this winter, Saturday, 4th February 2012 evening has been spent sitting by the window watching the snow fall! Now that we’re nice and warm indoors for the night, what should you do on Sunday to take advantage of all this snow?

Owning a car in London can be extremely impractical, especially for working professionals with no kids and living in a place with no free on-street or off-street parking. Plus, for those who are under a certain age, even if you did have use for a car, the car insurance would cost over a thousand pounds a year.

A couple of years ago, I booked a Top Secret Hotel through Lastminute.com, where you don’t know the actual hotel until you book our stay – but in return you get great hotel rates that you wouldn’t be able to find anywhere else.

I passed another milestone in my stay so far in London – I caught a bus on London’s longest bus route, X26. Its quite a strange bus route, running from Heathrow Airport all the way through lots of places in Southwest London, before ending up at West Croydon!

Like Japanese sushi but can’t afford to have spicy tuna nigri or soft shell crab rolls every day? Well, now you can… sort-of.

Top 5 must-have transport Android apps for Londoners, to plan and optimise your Tube and Bus journeys. Best of all – they’re all free!

It came from the council estates of East London and spread throughout the whole city and it is not garage. Yes I am talking about grime. The time of grime has been upon us for some time now and Simon Wheatley has produced a photography book that takes us back to where it all started.

While there are still many people who don’t exactly see the point of organic or sustainable food production, there is much less information on ethical jewellery, specifically the mining of gems and metals for jewellery and their environmental and human impact it has.

Says the lovely voice when we leave a train. I suppose it means we should not leave rubbish on the train the same way as we would not leave our purse or – forgive me the comparison – our children there. Even though we hear the title of this article a thousand times a year, we tend to just file it into the back of our unconscious mind.

I was reading earlier this week about the possibility of being able to get mobile phone signal on the London Underground soon. It all started when the Financial Times broke a story that Huawei was likely to be the technology partner to implementing mobile signal on the London Underground.