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Follow one Londonista trying to put the brakes on with Slow Club I cannot believe that Slow Club is over. It has rolled out slowly, deliberately – and this is a good thing. I cannot remember a time when their weekly emails weren’t delivering me …

Follow one Londonista trying to put the brakes on with Slow Club The Wallace Collection – the scene of last week’s ‘slowness’ The wonderful thing about Slow Club is that it has reconnected me with my senses. Last week we were asked to listen to …

Follow one Londonista trying to put the brakes on with Slow Club. Reconnect with nature: whether it’s nesting herons in Battersea Park or strutting pelicans in St James’s I’m biting my nails and tapping my foot. I’m staring at the thing on the table with …

Follow one Londonista trying to put the brakes on with Slow Club. Homemade cheesecake certainly is slow – but baking it didn’t always make me smile! When I read that the slow task was to make something with my hands, it was like waving a …

Regent Street: it’s amazing what you can see when you look up Follow one Londonista trying to put the brakes on with Slow Club. I recently read a book called Night Work by Thomas Glavinic. The central premise is that a man wakes up to …

Tricity Vogue: just one of the acts at the mad, wacky Magic Night We’re watching a man guessing which sexual disease a woman has chosen out of a possible list of six. What’s more, he’s getting thunderous applause for it. His ‘assistant’, picked from a …

Follow one Londonista trying to put the brakes on with Slow Club. Alistair Cameron, former Secretary of Borough Market Traders’ Association, let us sample some of Borough Market’s delights 11am on a Saturday morning. I’ve got a thumping headache from too much wine the night …

Follow one Londonista trying to put the brakes on with Slow Club. The London Duck Tour – not only will you go slowly on an amphibious vehicle but you might rediscover London too? This week’s low point: huffing and puffing behind a person on crutches. …

Follow one Londonista trying to put the brakes on with Slow Club. Spa Fields Park, behind Exmouth Market in Clerkenwell – another bit of London greenery when you don’t expect it. Well, it’s not been the most auspicious start. My boyfriend’s buyer has pulled out, …

Remember Slow Down London? They’re back with a new course to help Londoners repace. We sent along one stressed-out Londonist writer to chronicle her experiences. Life has been hurtling at a frantic pace of late. My first foray into the world of house buying has …