Jermyn Street Theatre is a tiny space. And when we say tiny, we mean tiny. We'd guess at 80-100 seats. And if you're over 5ft 10, you can forget about leg room for the evening. Luckily, Opera on the Run's delightfully light-hearted show, The Perfect Picnic should be more than enough to divert your ears and eyes away from any cramp forming in your legs. Recently-redundant David doesn't want to go the opera; he's......

18. Princes Arcade Where? One of several upper-class tunnels in SW1. This one connects Jermyn Street to the A4 (or Piccadilly to you and me). What? Ah, a scene straight off of a Victorian Christmas card. But appearances can be deceiving. Princes Arcade was the last such thoroughfare to be built in the area and dates from as late as 1933. Why use? Festive shopping. And if ever a hall was decked with boughs......

I'd like to put together a cheese plate for my upcoming Christmas party. Do you know anything about cheese, and where can I get some good cheese? Lucky for you there are great stinky cheese shops all over town that offer the world's finest wheels. And in every cheese shop there is a staff with an alarming amount of cheese knowledge. While generally friendly, these gourmand-types can also be intimidating, so it’s helpful to......

In today's New York Times the fantastically-monikered R.W. Apple Junior (Associate Editor of the paper) has written an article designed to answer that age old question: "Where does a visiting New Yorker or Parisian - or for that matter a country squire in town for a night or two - turn for a first-class English meal?" (A country squire?) The article is of course inspired by the now infamous comments of Mr Jacques Chirac,......

Oh dear, it's getting desperate already - today's Independent carries an article listing "20 reasons why London is the winner over Paris". Of course, this is ostensibly an article about that great sporting insitution, and symbol of all that is great and noble in the human spirt: the Olympics...but really it's just an excuse to have a go at the French. Take, for example, point number 5 on the list: "Jermyn Street:: Buy the......