Lucy Bloxham, Author at Secret London

To improve her employability Lucy decided to do a Masters in Shakespeare. Her favourite play is Much Ado About Nothing - appropriate considering she’s now been at university for almost five years... Growing up in Newcastle, Lucy always wanted to be a travel journalist. Someone needs to tell her that going to Zone 5 every now and again does not count.

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16 Words That Have Totally Different Meanings When You Move To London

A lot of things change when you move to London. Free time becomes a faint memory, money goes and stays gone (as does your dignity on public transport) and the few…

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7 Grievous Stages Of Post-Christmas Blues In London

Post-Christmas blues can be a serious blow to what was once a happy and festive spirit. As the tree begins to brown (depending on how long you’ve had it, obvs…

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16 Struggles That People Who Don’t Live In London Will Never Understand

There are some things that non-Londoners will just never understand. Like the feeling of tremendous triumph you get when you just about manage to slide through the tube doors before they close, Indiana Jones…

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18 Photos That Show How Different London And The North Actually Are

Never mind the North/South divide in London…this is summin’ else! It’s a whole other world up there. Sometimes for the best, and sometimes erhm…not. 1. Moustaches up North: necessary…

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17 Foolproof Ways To Tell That You’ve Become A Real Londoner

It’s something we all aspire to. Some say you have to have lived here for 5 years, others say 10. Frankly, we haven’t a foggiest, we just know that if…

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19 Ways Of Telling Whether Or Not The Tube Strike Will Go Ahead

Will they? Won’t they? It’s like (a far less loveable) Ross and Rachel all over again…with “WE WERE ON A BREAK” still not quite cutting it. Breaks, unless KitKat inspired, are…

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12 Tiny Changes Every Londoner Should Make To Revolutionise Their Year

Oh poor little old us. Always starting the New Year with such high hopes and expectations of a ‘new year, new me’, inundated with celestial visions of morning runs, green juices and…

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21 Things That Happen When You’re Single In London At Christmas

Single bells *sob* single bells *sniff* single all *sob* the way…ok, perhaps we’re exaggerating a teeny bit, but all you loved up couples with your S.O’s and your ‘shared advent…

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17 Things That Will Definitely Happen Now It’s December In London

We’ve got a bit of a love-hate relationship with London at Christmas over here at Secret London. Christmas lights? Yes. Shopping on Oxford Street? No, no, please god no. In…

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15 Reasons Why Scotland And London Really Aren’t So Different

They may be miles apart in terms of, erhm, mileage. But Scotland and London aren’t really so different after all. Unnecessary and totally ridiculous (but immensely fun) pop-ups? Check. A…