Author: climbingmoss
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Ash’s Top Women of 2019: The Ultimate Countdown
It’s the end of the year again, and if you have been following this site for any time or have looked at it, you know we do our yearly countdowns of our Top 100s. As usual, we will be breaking this up over the next couple of days. We will start with Ash’s Top 100…
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John Lewis Unwrapped Event: A Disappointment in Discounts
The Superstore John Lewis opened its doors on Wednesday for their Unwrapped Event for Card Holders – A special event where great deals could be had, reductions on every floor, competitions, and golden tickets are given with every purchase, plus a special goodie bag for the first 50 Attendees. Well, we went along to see…
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A Day at the London Christmas Beer Festival
Last weekend saw another excuse for us to visit our new favourite place, King’s Cross’s Coal Drop Yard. After the Samsung Coffee Workshop we meant to go back and see what else we could find in the redevelopment and what better reason than BEER!? Ash happened to notice that Gipsy Hill were making an appearance…
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Bake Perfect Oat Bran Muffins with This Easy Recipe
The other day we were reminiscing about coffee shops as we do- good ones, so obviously they are not around anymore (mostly). Ash spoke at length about Muffinski’s that used to be in King Street, Covent Garden, but has now turned into Urban Decay. This sparked the desire for Oat Bran Muffins (the good kind),…
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Learn Coffee Brewing with Samsung: An Exciting Workshop
Did you know that Samsung, the Electronics Company make coffee? Well, technically they don’t themselves, but they are in partnership with Origin Coffee and last weekend we attended a Coffee Workshop at the Samsung Building in King’s Cross (London). Here’s what we learnt… The Samsung building in the new complex behind King’s Cross and St.…
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Beer52: Pros and Cons of Their Subscription Box
When we posted about using Untapp’d, we got a pop-up that week that actually looked interesting. Beer52 is one of those subscription beer delivery services through Untapp’d they were running a promo offering free beer. Well, that was an offer worth looking into.
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London Coffee Reviews: What to Try and What to Skip
Well, I believe every single person who has read this blog knows that we love our coffee, good coffee preferably. But more often than not, coffee can be bad, REALLY BAD. We witnessed both over the past few weeks.
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Was the Body Shop Dream Big Event Worth It?
The other day Bob, Ash and Bruffin all received a special membership invitation to the Body Shop Dream Big Special event. Where all sorts of wild events were going on, freebies were to be handed out and overall a lot of good stuff, much like the Superdrug event a little while ago. We applied for…
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Your Guide to the Best Craft Beers and Breweries
If you know us, you know we like our beers, Bob with her sours and Ash with his love of Stouts and porters, as well as our shared liking of an IPA, or more accurately, a NEPA or WCPA and the occasional random. We have posted about the Great British Beer Festival and occasionally about…
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A Visit to Better Gym at Clissold Park: Review
Do you remember where you learnt to swim? Was it a summer holiday in the sea, a pool in the back garden, or was it in a communal pool? For me (Ash) it was the latter and precisely Clissold Park Swimming Pool, but not the modern, sleek building that stands there today; no, the pool…
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