Four weeks till Christmas! Argh. Funds are all focused on present buying and getting through the party season but we still want to go out and about because the heating isn't working properly at home. We can't afford to go and see Gandalf drop his trousers in King Lear but, thankfully, there's lots of cheap and interesting stuff about as usual. Monday: Start the week with an event truly in the spirit of London......

We like the Fortnight Club. It takes place in the Camden Head in Angel at 8.45pm on every other Monday and is usually a bill of ten or so professional circuit comedians test driving brand new material that they wouldn't necessarily want to throw straight into their set. Proceedings are greased by Logan Murray's hilarious Ronnie Rigsby character, a pervy "50 years in showbiz" style entertainer, as MC. It's a mere £4 to get......

Every era has it poets, so if you are still stuck with Wordsworth, Sassoon and Keats as your only frames of reference for just the price of a pint you can gain access to London’s poetry circuit and soak up some modern day verse. A good place to sample spoken word is at London’s very own Poetry Café in Covent Garden where Poetry Unplugged takes over the café’s tiny basement every Tuesday evening. This......