What an impressive birthday cake, from The Apple Blue Patisserie, this is – moist, spongy red velvet with beautiful meringues, chewy on the inside!

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An early morning cruise through Columbia Rd Flower Market.  Blooms of peonies, roses and hydrangeas:

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Sampling the soft opening week at Strut & Cluck, in Shoreditch, and the starters were deliche!