She Loves London

Month: April 2012

  • Trafalgar Square: Home to Jesus, Pillows and Ponies. (Alright, not the last one. But it COULD be.)

    Trafalgar Square: Home to Jesus, Pillows and Ponies. (Alright, not the last one. But it COULD be.)

    Of all London’s famous public spaces, Trafalgar Square is easily the most versatile.

    Think about it. Covent Garden does the street performance thing (but not gardens), while nearby Leicester Square hosts screaming Twilight fans and the occasional funfair. Southbank takes care of the arty-farty installations and Hyde Park is all about charging you £50 to watch a concert you can’t really hear that well.

    But Trafalgar Square laughs in the face of all that.

    It’s got opera, plinths, flash mobs and lions you can climb on. Trafalgar Square says “Sod being a one trick pony. I’m a whole field of ponies“. Then it kicks back, lights a cigar and says “Don’t believe me? Watch this” and gets Jesus to re-enact his resurrection live on Good Friday. As you do.

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  • Things To Do Over Easter: Hunt Down The Bad Eggs

    Have you seen the eggs?

    Of course you have. Who hasn’t seen the eggs? The bloody eggs are all people have been going on about for the last month, and if by some miracle you haven’t hunted them down yet, then this weekend they’re all gathering in a big omelette-y pile in Covent Garden for Easter.

    You can even go online and bid to have one in your house.

    But if you do, choose carefully. Because like everything in this world, there are good eggs, and there are bad eggs.

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