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Southsayer: Jerry Gardiner, volunteer for St. Mungo’s Putting Down Roots project

What is the most important lesson life has taught me? To survive. Jerry Gardiner works for the Putting Down Roots project run by the homeless charity St Mungo’s. The project trains St Mungo’s clients in gardening skills and they gain practical experience by volunteering to tend green spaces all over London. Jerry has been involved …

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Pinboard 5 September: free films, a garden fresh dinner and some old-school technology

Larkhall Park: The Stockwell Festival Unless you live next to Larkhall Park, you may not know that it is about to play host to Stockwell festival on Saturday. Slightly in the shadow of south London’s louder Brixton Splash and Lambeth Country Show, this fun little festival has tonnes to make it a day full of fun …

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Pinboard 1 August: streetfood at the Bussey Building, Meantime Brewery shows off and Brixton set to party hard at the Splash

Peckham: Kerb comes back to SE15 Were you one of these happy people scoffing high-class street food in the Bussey Building car park a couple of weeks ago? If so, do you want some more? (If not, are you feeling hungry?) In both cases you’re in luck as KERB was such a success that the …

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Wednesday Picture: Is London Bridge getting better – or worse?

For any of you who live, work or just spend lots of time around the London Bridge area, local irritations are probably a toss-up between the hordes of tourists flocking to gawp at the Shard, push up prices at the divisively swished up Borough Market, and photograph Tower Bridge when you’re running late – and the …

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Pinboard 23 May: Brixton’s Cornercopia does cocktails, Jay Rayner riles Herne Hill and your chance to find out what’s Made in Camberwell

1. Brixton: pop-up cocktail bar at Cornercopia Oh goodness. How exciting. If their cocktails are as good as their food, the new seasonal pop-up cocktail bar at Cornercopia in Brixton Market, opening tomorrow, 24 May, is going to be dangerous. This pioneer in the Brixton food revolution doesn’t do bad, doesn’t even do mediocre. It …

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