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The next Ballroom Boot Fair at the Ivy House Pub, Stuart Road, Peckham Rye, SE15 2PL will be on SATURDAY 13th NOVEMBER. 12 -5pm. Entrance 50p, Kids free. Selling bric a brac, vintage clothes and accessories, records and much much more. Please call 07904 192 497 for more information and to reserve a pitch, or email info@ballroombootfair.co.uk There will also be two SPECIAL CHRISTMAS GIFT FAIRS. They are Saturday 4th December and 18th December. The organisers are looking for designer makers, crafters, homebakers etc for these fairs so please do pass this on if you know of anyone who may be interested.

Samantha Blears started making cupcakes 'because it seemed like the easiest thing to do' for her children's school Halloween fair. Several years, and thousands of cupcakes later, Love Bakery has become the destination for a cake of distinction on London's Kings Road. Sam's matter of fact approach to baking guides you step-by-step through the basic techniques, you feel led by the hand rather than made to follow a recipe. Gradually your confidence grows with Sam's infectious passion for her craft and your mind will start whirling with ideas of your own for possible fillings and toppings. More than just a book about baking, Sam demonstrates that there is inspiration to be fond in everything, as her montage mood boards pay testament, from an autumn leaf to a rediscovered lost button. Your imagination is the cherry, on the icing, on the cake. Our favourite high points are the liquor laced Cuptails and the sage advice for the nervous novice; 'What's the worst

After many of years of selling a fantastic selection of music we have decided to sadly call it a day and we are going to call it this Saturday! Downloading is the future and with this in mind we have produced a wonderful selection of greeting cards complete with itunes play lists on the back; more about these later. This weekend we will be selling all our remaining CDs at just £5 each. Pop along and stock up for Christmas they make fantastic stocking fillers.

Roullier White's exclusive Mrs White's range of handmade bath and beauty products is now being stocked in über cool cosmetic store Shen Beauty, which opened just last week in Brooklyn. We are really proud to have been selected as part of Shen Beauty's inaugural range and we are delighted to have been given the opportunity to bring a bit of the English countryside, where all Mrs White's genius products are made, to our favourite city in the world. Good luck Shen Beauty!

For me October is the start of the party season with a plethora of family and friends’ birthdays followed by the horrors of Halloween and a flurry of drinks parties until the New Year. Around this time last year a phone conversation with my mother made me cast my mind back to when hassle was at a minimum and the Hustle was at maximum. “What’s wrong?’ enquired my mother through a delicately balanced handset whilst I heatedly banged the third batch of burned bruschetta into the bin. ‘Well this is supposed to be fun but all it is really stressful.’ I moaned miserably, watching my mini crab cakes disintegrating and clumping in the pan. ‘Mine and your father’s parties were never such a palaver’ volunteered my mother in decade appropriate parlance. ‘I know’ I countered, ‘but it was the 70’s and all you had to worry about was pork-pie-with-egg-in or pork-pie-without egg-in and whether you had enough cocktail sticks to cover an entire cabbage in cheese and pineapple cubes’. ‘For your informat