2016 has been a whirlwind. A rollercoaster. A total and utter clusterfuck. But at least some good came of it… we got rainbow coloured food and a giant boozy ball pit.
January
22nd | A Creme Egg Café popped up in Soho. Because obviously it did.
28th | Freakshakes came to London and changed the world as we knew it.
February
1st | Easyjet opened an easyFoodstore that sells everything and anything (well, almost) for just 25p. In your face Poundland.
18th* | The city was graced with rainbow bagels (sorry, beigels) and Brick Lane has never been the same since.
March
15th | Someone built a giant sand sculpture of a cat eating broccoli in a protest against gentrification. Yes, it’s just as ridiculous as it sounds.
23rd | A rogue parrot was found on the Underground.
April
2nd | The Great Wall of Vagina, er, came. Literally a wall of 400 plaster noonys molded on actual noonys.
May
3rd | And as if rainbow bagels weren’t enough, rainbow cheese toasties took London by storm.
23rd | Angelina Jolie became a visiting professor at London School of Economics.
June
11th | A naked restaurant came on the scene, and people bared all.
July
14th | Pokémon Go launched and the city (actually, the entire world) went a bit weird.
August
8th | A woman recreated famous pieces of art on toast and displayed them in a gallery at Old Street station.
September
8th | Walkers opened a speakeasy style pop-up serving crisp sandwiches, and it was hidden behind a rack of crisps in a newsagents.
12th | A crowdfunding campaign was launched to raise £23,000 in order to replace all the tube adverts at Clapham tube station with pictures of cats. It was a roaring (or rather a meowing) success.
29th | The fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square got a big thumbs up. Literally.
30th | We got Cronuts!
October
7th-9th | Some bloke gave surprise tattoos to people who stuck their arm through a hole. Because daring is London’s middle name.
10th* | The “Killer Clowns” arrived in London. One of them ran around Brunel University with a chainsaw because he thought it would make a good YouTube video.
13th | Kumbuka the Gorilla escaped from London Zoo and drank 5 litres of undiluted blackcurrant squash.
November
4th | We got an “>adults-only ball pit and called it Ballie Ballerson. (If we couldn’t have Boaty McBoatface…).
8th | Trump happened. Okay, we know it didn’t happen in London, but we felt the hit.
25th | London hosted its first ever festival dedicated entirely to cat videos. Fur real.
December
1st | A pop-up serving up Ferrero Rocher 5 ways (how very Masterchef) opened in Covent Garden.
*Approximate date.
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