Doing stuff in London is great, but doing stuff together is heaps more fun. Here are a few things going on that you might like to join up for...

Polly's on tour again

Back from yet another sell-out in Italy, Polly has a few gigs coming up. Details on her label's site www.pollypaulusma.com, but email or text if you want to come along. Free drinks for those who were fans before Dark Side hit radios.

Film club

Thanks to the folks over at Orange, alternate Wednesdays www.odeon.co.uk are the new film night. Usually it's pizzas here first and then down to Kensington. Text me for times, venues and film choice.

Future shorts

Sticking with movies, but this time shorts not features: the folks at FutureShorts www.futureshorts.com have really gotten it off the ground now and have a couple of venues in walking distance including The Gate.

Cine Lumiere

Final regular movie venue for a touch of culture from over the water. See listings on LondonNet.

Clear Blue Water

Looking forward to a few more releases and way more mixes? Limited copies still around through amazon or listen out on for news.

Mountain-biking in Devon or on the Downs

Want to come? Planning a few short three day trips this summer and Autumn if the weather’s kind. You’ll need a mountain bike rather than roadsters, but the going’s pretty easy.

Tristan’s stag weekend

Know the guy? Seen the computer animations? On the list? We’re still sorting it out, but email me from here and you’ll get the access codes for where/when/how and all that including who else is with us. Just be sure to dig out something that’ll make him want to crawl under a table. Let’s face it, if you’re going out for more than 15 years before popping the question, you can’t expect to get off lightly.

Want to come flying?

Thinking about an evening gliding trip while the season lasts...

Snowboards anyone?

So here’s the plan: a few of us are thinking about heading to the Alps in Feb: wanna come? One of my friends is kindly volunteering his house and we can take 6 comfortably, or about 16 if we use all the bedrooms. It’s on the edge of Switzerland in the French Alps a snowball’s throw from www.chatel.com and actually looks onto a piste. From novice snowboarders to downhill maniacs it’s all welcome, and at about 9 days probably okay to drop in just for a bit. Heaps of details to sort out in the meantime and aside from the ski and the après I’m writing a bit so if you just want some clean mountain air and fresh ideas (and have no intention of risking adrenalin or injury) then it could be for you-drop me a line.

Honduras

Third leg of the Central American diving trip from Utila and Roatan along the Northern coast.

Meanwhile if you’re after a good read then three of my friends have cracking new books out...

Richard (Eyre) will drag you through life in the cut-throat world of media and battles for control in television as only an insider can. Think it’s glitzy? Think again. Find out more - hey, even try buying a copy (!) - from Amazon.

Meanwhile Chris (Cleave) gets the award for the most prophetic title of the decade by publishing his novel about a terrorist bomb in London on the week of July 7th. Hats off to Chris for the blogging that followed and his support for Random’s speedy retraction of the ad campaign, but with some reviewers likening ‘Incendiary’ to Alex Garland’s ‘The Beach’ in terms of the impact a first novel has, he sure is one to watch. Check it out. We’re rooting for you Chris.

Finally, Richard (T Kelly) has hit the shelves with a biography of Sean Penn enjoying the support of the actor, whose, in the publishers words "volatile relationship with the press initially gained him more fame than his talent" [the quotes help us with legal suits, right?]. Another one for ambling through on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Copies shipped straight away from the world’s local bookstore.

Dave, Dan, Paddy, your links are all on the way but mail me some reviews please guys.