It’s National Chip Week this week!  Celebrate Britain’s love affair with spuds with free chips nationwide, potato-themed games, and events around the country.

Did you know:

• For chips prepared in the home, nearly 60% are oven baked, over a third are
  fried and 3% come out of the microwave.
• Friday is the most popular day of the week for eating chips, with around a fifth
  of the chips eaten then.
• A recent survey confirmed that 87% of the population love chips!
• More than half a billion meals containing homemade chips are eaten each year.

For example, Kerbisher & Malt at 164 Shepherd’s Bush Road, W6 7PB are planing to commemorate fried spud week by offering complimentary chips to the first ten folk who fumble through their doors each day – a warming if unhealthy way to start a day around town!

‘Now for a property tip…Lady Gaga is buying a flat in Fitzrovia, that area south of the Euston Road and north of Soho; a bit bleak now but after she buys every follower will want to live there, go for it now!’

Now in its 41st year, The London Book Fair continues to be the global market place for rights negotiation and the sales and distribution of content across print, audio, TV, film and digital channels.

With over 250 seminars and events, 2,000 international exhibiting companies and 24,500 publishing professionals, The London Book Fair encompasses the broad spectrum of the publishing industry.

Join us at Earls Court, London from the 16th – 18th April for The London Book Fair 2012.

‘For those with a strong stomach…The Hunterian museum is located inside the Royal College of Surgeons and houses a weird and wonderful collection of human and animal remains in rows of jars, and gruesome specimen such as a four legged chick and Churchill’s false teeth!’

Be there! On JUne 3rd around 1000 boats will go down the Thames to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee including the Royal Barge and survivors from Dunkirk! Stay with us at the Trebovir Hotel, ask for an early breakfast and go and reserve aplave on the river for the biggest show London has ever seen we are told.’

‘ Now that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have bought a cocker spaniel puppy, expect the price of these dogs to go shooting up as a result of a rush on the breed; you read of this fantastic investment here first!

‘A unique opportunity to see the most famous portraits painted by Lucien Freud in his unique style; at the National Portrait Gallery from the 9th February to the 27th May. Stay with us afterwards at the Trebovir but don’t expect to see fat nudes there!’

The Queen has marked the 60^th anniversary of her accession to the throne by pledging once again to the nation the pledge that she made 60 years ago. “I dedicate myself anew to your service” . At the age of 85 she still has a full diary and this year it looks as if she will be even busier-an inspiration to us all!

London survived the snowstorms of Saturday night and the trains kept running or at least the main line trains did, the tubes had problems leaving thousands stranded in the freezing cold. It was amazing how silent everything went, I left the Trebovir Hotel in Earls Court and it struck me how the traffic had decreased and everyone seemed to be sitting at home in front of fires it was almost as if London was mine. By the end of Sunday most of the snow had gone and we went back to normal.