Yam Yam!

We’re in the midst of an ongoing project here at the Albany around food – chickens that have taken up residence in the garden and allotments have sprung up. As part of this we’re about to launch Yam Yam!, a six week festival of performances, workshops and arts activities all revolving around food.A food fight, ...

8-week course in mindfulness for health & wellbeing starting Oct 25th

Baby Jumble, November 16th

Jenny writes:Baby Jumble is organised by two new mums – Jenny and Faye – who are well aware of how the costs associated with having a baby can mount up, so we have decided to tackle the problem head on by launching a series of nearly new baby sales, north and south of the river.This ...

Deptford Dolphins Thames Swim

I was slightly sceptical about whether the self-proclaimed Deptford Dolphins were actually going to manage to swim out from Watergate stairs to the nearby crane derrick in the Thames (as previewed here). But two of them made it on 22 September, and there's a film to prove it. They are already thinking of doing it ...

Queen Victoria’s Wars: Guided Walk

Our next guided walk, led by the inimitable Mike Guilfoyle, will feature visits to some of the graves of soldiers, diplomats and surgeons who saw action during Queen Victoria's reign in the furthest reaches of the British Empire from the Ashanti to the Anglo-Zulu War.The walk starts at 2:00pm on Saturday 5th October and is free though donations are welcome.  Meet by ...

5-a-side players needed

Chris writes:Last year's call for local 5-a-side footballers on Brockley Central met with huge success. However, due to the popularity of fatherhood we're falling low in numbers again. Anybody out there interested in 60 minutes of 5-a-side football with a group of ageing has-beens should get in touch. We play on the pitches at Catford ...

Wine of the times

Jeremy [voiceover]: Shit. Can't ask how much. Restaurant, you have to pretend you're infinitely wealthy for some reason. [He starts looking through the wine list]. OK, flicking, looking. If only I knew the name of any other wine. What's a wine? Is the one Hannibal Lecter drinks real or a joke?- Peep ShowLewisham Council launches ...

Morris Sendback

Prendergast Ladywell Fields College (Crofton Park School) to become all ages?

Music Monday: Sam Lee in Deptford

I was lucky enough to catch folk singer Sam Lee singing a song a couple of weeks ago at a Build the Lenox event at the Master Shipwrights House in Deptford. Sam filmed the video for his song Good Bye My Darling in the garden there last year, sitting by the fishing shack at the ...