• Last year we made a podcast with Londonist Out Loud broadcaster N Quentin Woolf.  We showed him Georgian London on our time travel walk, through thoroughfares, busy squares and dark dank alleys. We had a lot of fun bringing our guide training and love of things Georgian together as one amusing and entertaining podcast which you can listen to here: bit.ly/1INMvYu

​We hope you will enjoy it and you may decide that you would like to join us in one of our many exciting activities.  You can still book for 1st December Yuletide Supper and our events for 2017 will be going live in a couple of weeks.  

Dr Johnson's House will once again feature in our exciting calendar during May and September 2017. We leave you with a definition which is currently pertinent to the state of affairs in the world today.

Politician: 1. One versed in the arts of government; one skilled in politicks. 2. A man of artifice; one of deep contrivance.
Dr Johnson's Dictionary 1755

               Ka'lendar. n.s. [now written calendar.] An account of time
                                                                                       [Dr Johnson's Dictionary - 1755]


Once again we will be holding four events throughout the year at Simpson's Tavern off Cornhill, in the City of London.

There are slight variations to our previous calendars, we have introduced an August date which we hope will entice our friends, acquaintances and strangers who are really only free to indulge themselves copiously during the Summer Holidays!  Also we hope this will encourage some our overseas followers to visit us.

9th March
15th June
17th August
7th December

We are also planning some extra events which we hope will once again involve Dr Johnson's House, confirmation will be broadcast as soon as we know.  They are likely to be during May and/or September.

Meanwhile we hope as many of you as possible will come and join us on the first day of the festive month to imbibe fully and enjoy the hospitality of Georgian Dining Academy.

We had planned to write our own piece about the event in September but we were overjoyed with this wonderful description of the evening by a guest.  So read on ...

thatslondonbaby.com/2016/10/16/georgian-dining-academy/

Miss Kitty and I enjoyed a walk through a recently created public garden between the River Thames and Bermondsey Wall East. Cherry trees have been planted there to echo the cherry orchard that was in situ in 17th century for the delight of the visitors to the pleasure gardens that were once there.
 
Samuel Pepys also took this route on his way from the City of London to the Dockyards at Greenwich, his diary entry of 13 June 1664 “and so to Cherry-gardens and carried some cherries home”. We wonder if he also enjoyed the other delights on offer … 

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Jamaica House was also close by and noted in Pepys diary after a visit by him and his wife. The pleasure gardens had closed by the end of 19th century, and Jamaica House has been demolished but the cherry trees remained, as did the name of the street, the stairs and pier.




This is where Georgian Dining found themselves on Friday afternoon, via Cherry Garden Pier, on board the latest venture by City Cruises, a boat to be launched mid-September and called ‘Alpha’.  A fine,  modern sightseeing vessel where the passengers do not have to suffer the vagaries of the English weather but can enjoy the views of the banks of the Thames through huge windows! For the brave there is top deck!
 
We are currently involved in developing a culture cruise with City Cruises all about the Georgians and the connections through this period with the river, think maritime, Handel’s Water Music and pleasure gardens. The schedule is slightly haphazard at present and apologies to our keen followers who booked up and then were sadly disappointed.  Please do not give up on this new venture we are participating in but sadly have no control over.  Here are some pictures of us having fun on board after the photo shoot. 

​We look forward to welcoming you on board City Cruises cultural venture very soon.

 Information on Cherry Gardens from:
​http://www.exploringsouthwark.co.uk/cherry-gardens/4587640952

Finally we have a web page, it is simple in format, not quite how we envisaged it but we are working on its temperaments as well as are own as we daily get round the maze of potential possibilities to get the character and design we desire.

We have an extraordinary full calendar for the Autumn Season. New ventures and our quarterly supper at Simpson's Tavern.

We are taking to the water for four events on the River Thames, a cultural trip on City Cruises, a special supper at Dr Johnson's House and our supper salon on 1st September.

Miss Kitty and I will be adding to 'a halfpennyworth of news' as and when our full social schedule allows, we also welcome guest contributions.