With the wettest weather recorded in recent years and festivals all over the UK being cancelled, on Friday 13th we held our breath for a similar announcement from the organisers at GuilFest. But it wasn't to be... and this unlucky day proved very lucky for thousands of revellers, who donned sunglasses and rain hats for the unpredictable weather that threatened to put an end to GuilFest 2012.
Global Feast Wed 25th July to Monday 13th August is an exciting new food experience offering a different world cuisine each night of the Olympics, as diners sit round a giant sculptural model of the world that is fifteen metres long, six metres wide and over two metres tall. The model will double as both table and seating that is just a stone's throw from the Olympic Park, at Stratford Town Hall.
New one-man show from Scottish Writer of the Year Alan Bissett gets up close with your least favourite creepy-crawly... Spiders! Not everyone's favourite species - so why, then, has avowed arachnophobe Alan Bissett decided to follow up his 2010 sell-out show The Moira Monologues with a play about six of them?
After a very successful event at Newark Park in June Love Food will be returning to the quirky Tudor hunting lodge for a second Festival on Sunday 14th October 2012 from 11am - 5pm. Set amidst acres of park and woodland this National Trust property offers the perfect venue for an event which celebrates honest, seasonal food, family activities and the great outdoors.
Join whisky-lovers from the UK and around the world for a luxurious food and whisky tasting experience at this year's The Whisky Exchange Whisky Show. Taking place at Vinopolis, London's premium wine and spirit destination, the Show will run across the weekend of 6th-7th October 2012 from 12pm-6pm and tickets are now available to buy.
A stellar line-up of riders will head to Hickstead next week for the Amlin Plus Eventing Grand Prix, and top Irish jockey Robbie Power will be making his debut in the class - but can a Grand National winning jockey power to victory in the Amlin Plus Eventing Grand Prix? Robbie won the Grand National on Silver Birch in 2007 and is among the top jump jockeys in Ireland. Before switching to racing, he used to be a professional showjumper and was a former Young Rider European gold medallist.
