So this week, we spent all our money on cold remedies and extra balmy tissues for our beleaguered noses. The plan is to be back and fighting fit by Monday so here are some of the things we could all get up to this week for very little wonga. Monday: Call the BBC Ticket Line on 0870 901 1227 and get free tickets for the recording of Clare in the Community - the radio......

It seems Ken Livingstone isn't content with the new, faster Eurostar, but wants to make London actually resemble Paris. He is proposing pedestrianised, tree-lined streets a la the French capital and even wants to get us our own version of the famous Paris Plage, the artificial beach that takes over the Right Bank of the Seine. For this, the Mayor wants to shut a section of the Victoria Embankment's four lanes from traffic. Other......

London Architecture Biennale and Architecture Week got off to a fine if sweaty start this weekend. We’d particularly recommend ‘Transit’, an Iain Sinclair-narrated short film by Emily Richardson, in catacombs beneath Smithfield Market - spooky, thought provoking and surprisingly deserted when we visited. Here’s our pick of the many events happening over the next couple of days. And don’t worry about missing the football. They’ve thought of that… Monday Blueprint Big Breakfasts: The chance......

London before and after seems to be on our minds at the moment. Ever since that week in July that seemed to give with one hand and then took it all away with the other, the people who live and work here have been forced to think about this place with a certain amount of trepidation. What has changed? What will change? What can we change back and what will change forever? Tate Modern......

There's no denying it: Radio 4 is great. No, we don't listen to the Archers (yet), and we're not quite at the Book at Bedtime stage either, but we should all offer up a prayer of thanks to the BBC directors for organising their latest stroke of radio genius: Chain Reaction. Described by the BBC as "Simplicity itself", the idea is that "A well-known public figure begins the series by interviewing the person of their......