Post-anything blues is just horrible. But post-Christmas blues is officially the worst. A culmination of post-holiday and post-birthday blues, it sure is a truly sad event. And an inevitable event at that. Some years we...
Oh hi there, friends. Resorted to reading Secret London on Christmas Day, eh? What on earth are you doing? Aren’t you supposed to singing carols merrily around the grand piano? Happily sipping on mulled wine whils...
This is exceedingly selfish of us, but tbh people need to know. If you subtly/not so subtly link someone to this post then we promise to take all the flack (and to those who have been linked here, we judgeth thee). &nbs...
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Christmas is great; family is great. No one’s denying that. But everyone deserves a break from time to time and no one’s judging you if that break needs to be taken at 9am in the morning. Public transport wo...
We all know these, do you? 1. At every London office party, they serve Pret Christmas Lunch sandwiches. [Telegraph]2. You can take a toy from the St Pancras Tree if you sing “Ding Dong Merrily On High” whilst li...
Besides resisting the temptation to write this in a Scottish dialect so that the word ‘wee’ could feature more often than necessary…this is not a joke. There is about to be some serious back-(sp)lash f...
For many of us, our parents live beyond the bubble of London, unaware of the lives we lead, the commutes we have to go through, the tube strikes we face. Or, if they are aware of it, it’s through a rose-tinted and remin...
New Year. One of the most emotionally confusing, expectation disillusioning and wallet draining evenings of the year. And yet every. year. our poor optimistic minds still manage to convince ourselves to go out, get squi...
We’re notoriously miserable but the run up to Christmas sure does complicate our emotions. One day you’ll catch us in head to toe green felt (bell hat and all), prancing about to ‘When Santa Got Stuck...
We know we like to blow our own trumpets a little here at Secret London but if there’s one time of year where we feel like London really, really steals the show: it’s Christmas. 1. Christmas lights on...
It happens to the best of us: your Monday morning is going swimmingly, you only pressed snooze twice and you even had time to cook some porridge. You arrive at the tube with a big smile on your face, internally praising...
