Latest Lost in London

• Valentine’s Day: Love in the time of third wheels

  

  LOST IN LONDON | There’s only one thing worse than the cross-continental set-up from well meaning Aussie friends and family this Valentine’s Day. Being the third wheel on someone else’s blind date.

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• The high-flying, toot-fooluting Lonsdale in Notting Hill

  

  LOST IN LONDON | The Lonsdale, of Notting Hill, is like the mullet of English pubs. It’s all business out the front, party on the inside.

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• When good couples go bad – surviving being single in London

  

  LOST IN LONDON | I guess I’m getting to that particular age when people start to really couple up.

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• Keep left (or face the penalty!)

  

  LOST IN LONDON | For those of you that know me, you’ll know that sometimes the mere act of standing upright is a challenge, let alone propelling forward in a horizontal motion (otherwise known as walking). And that’s when there is a clear path ahead of me, and the occasional lamppost to right myself against (that is, when I don’t walk straight into it).

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• I’m jubileed off

  

  LOST IN LONDON | Yes, I know the Jubilee was months ago. And yes, there has been, oh I don’t know, the little matter of the Olympics in the meantime to help delete the collective memory of the BBC’s coverage pondering how many toilet breaks the Royals would have needed in their flotilla journey.

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• London fashionista I am not

  

  LOST IN LONDON | Back in Australia when I was picturing myself in London, in my imaginings I was always excellently dressed.

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• Contagion. Meet Camel

  

  LOST IN LONDON | “Salty nuts … who wants a big bag of my salty nuts?”

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• So hipsters do exercise after all

  

  LOST IN LONDON | You could be forgiven for thinking that in between all the double shot soy macchiatos and accessorising with a well-teamed top hat and mismatching colored socks tucked into scuffed brogues, that there is little time left in the day for hipsters to get those exercise endorphins flowing like the rest of us.

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• The Great London Coffee Hunt of 2012

  

  LOST IN LONDON | Mention moving to London to many in Australia and they will immediately voice their sole concern – ‘but how will you get a decent cup of coffee?’.

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• It’s pissing down…still

  

  LOST IN LONDON | A.A Gill once said about London weather: ‘it’s been incontinent for weeks.’ A statement that has never been more true than about this particular English summer.

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• Letter from a Concerned Customer

  

  LOST IN LONDON | Dear Hipster/Bartender (if that is your actual job) at The Westbourne

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• Pick-up lines a la London

  

  LOST IN LONDON | RETURNING from the Rugby 7s in Twickenham a month or two ago, I found myself on the train to Waterloo sans companions.

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• Job-hunting in London, made that little bit harder

  

  LOST IN LONDON | You all know how it is. Recruitment companies are to the unemployed in London what Moses was to the chosen people. The Skier Guide to the blind Paralympian. The Putin to his Medvedev.

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