Everything London

This week I rushed to the Kings Fund to see "Open wounds” Created and developed by Tottenham Rights, the exhibition explores the connections between health, racism and inequalities, and how this has affected generations of Black people. It does so through the eyes of the Black community themselves.  I'm currently looking into digital health inequalities, and I've heard from AgeUK, ABILITY and some ground roots agencies from a House of Lords inquiry, so it seemed appropriate to hear the experience of the Black community, in a specifically curated exhibition by Tottenham Rights. OPEN WOUNDS exhibit I was impressed by the boards and it's very plain speaking from slavery and the dismissal that Black people were even human, and the cheap labour their lives represented, which informed from a very early time, that Black people could be mistreated, weren't as smart, or not as valuable a human as their white counterparts. Dehumanising Black people sav...

Camden Council offering a variety of options with  #tryabike It's been a long London Council initiative to make bike hire free for at least 30 days- 4 weeks, with "try a bike"the idea is to reduce pollution and to create an opportunity to see if a bike is right for you, before investing in buying your own. The benefits of using a bike at this time are insurmountable, and especially for those at risk of infection but required to attend a job they can't do from home. Using a bike helps all our shop staff, post office workers, cleaners and of course the vital medics and allied professionals to avoid all public transport, which as we all know has been increasingly packed due to the reduced services on tubes and buses in waiting in the brisk the cold spring sunshine and occasional rain,  minimising workers’ disruption and possibilities of being infected as they travel to attend to crucial work in the COVID-19 epidemic. Free ebikes.. There are regular bikes c...

I probably don't need to reiterate it's a hard and uncertain time for everyone right now, how desolate the streets of London are in the midst of corona virus pandemic. So I won't, instead I want to turn your attention to goats, pygmy goats to be exact. At London Zoo, the pygmy goats enclosure is where all animal loving kids, and lets face it adults too, get to interact with the zoo animals -  and it turns out they're missing us! Seriously, they line up at the gate of their enclosure in the mornings waiting for the visitors, because they're waiting for massage and attention and they get lots of love! No social distancing for them - their keepers are on site and on hand to make up for the shortfall, though I'm not sure they are anything close to the numbers the pygmy goats miss. Its adorable and a real reminder of how we all love cuddles, even if we can't really see our friends and families in person. #staysafestayhome When this is all over mayb...