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Preview: nabokov Arts Club ‘Fable’ Party Weekend @ BAC

A fabulous massive live arts party this weekend (sponsored post)

Hay Bales Coming To Battersea

Get Covered In Mud With Survival London @ Battersea Power Station

Power through mud, water, ice, Walls, hay bales, monkey bars – and darkness

Pumphouse Ghosts

Wandsworth Arts Festival: People Show 122, The Pump House Project

Ghosts, local stories, human fountains and memories were brought to weird life in Battersea Park last week.

Destined to be a playground only for an elite? Photo: Wandsworth Council

Suffer Little Children: Council Charges Kids To Use Playground

Council to impose ‘tax on fun’ at Battersea Adventure Playground

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London Literary Locations: The Borribles

We’ve followed, photographed and mapped the Great Rumble Hunt route through south-west London, as described in Michael de Larrabeiti’s children’s adventure.

Flying Fantastic

Alternative London Workouts #16: Aerial Fitness

A fantastic and hugely fun way to get fit that basically amounts to… playing. Hurrah! But be warned: it will make you want to run away and join the circus.

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Preview: People Show 122, The Pump House Project

Ghosts are about, and some have dogs. Magical water features are created by human fountains.

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Bennett Oyster Bar & Brasserie Opens in Battersea

Self appointed “innovative new food emporium”, Bennett Oyster Bar & Brasserie, opened this week at Battersea Square offering seafood, “traditional British fayre”, fine wine and Champagne, fresh flowers, organic fruit and veg and a variety of fresh baked goods.

Stirring speech with anecdotes about House of Commons Envelopes

Boris Johnson Opens New Winter Garden in Battersea Park

The Mayor does the honours opening a blooming lovely new garden for Battersea Park.

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Photo of the Day: Skating at Battersea Park, c.1958

Attend a Reel London Film Screening of “Southern Comforts – South London in archive film” on Friday 18 February between 1-4pm; a free drop in event at the London Metropolitan Archives.

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Extra Extra

London Aussies – your country needs you. To go to the polls. It’s been busy in Battersea today, with a hotel fire and a street stabbing. Harden’s report that London restaurant prices are finally being reigned in. Don’t read this if you are about to …