High season in courierdom and as a precursor to the music and multi-media extravaganza that will be the LCEF Summer Ball on Friday 13th in Hackney, the wonderful and talented Charlie Chop of Cities in the Dark fame brings you what might just be the race of the summer, AFRICAT II. Are you ready for […]
If you’ve ever had the pleasure of reading this courier blog recently you’ll have enjoyed a fair flavour of someone who has a pretty firm finger on the pulse of all things good, bad and ugly about working as a courier in the big city. Tee, from Turku in Finland has been a courier for […]
Falling off seems to be the new staying on. Indeed, we’ve had reports in hushed whispers from those in the know recently that you’re not down with the kids unless your arm’s in a sling or you have a plastercast on your leg. So having dealt with half a dozen or so claims in the […]
*edited* We did have a few words on here bemoaning the fact that one of our most proactive fundraisers and organisers, Papillon, had upped sticks to start a new episode in Holland. It ended up sounding so much like an obituary that she was forced to come back to London just to show us all […]
Rollapaluza Goldsprints 2010 lived up to it’s promise yet again with another superb, atmosphere laden night of roller mayhem at The Horseshoe. About forty or so working couriers, male and female, stepped up to see who would go away with the highly coveted title of fastest courier in London and the competition was nothing other than fierce. For the girls, newcomer […]
Very welcome news just in that on April 1st, Greg ‘G-Reg’ Hall of Pink Express Couriers, will be journeying his way by train down to Penzance, Cornwall and then on to the tip of Lands End the next morning to begin a 3-day sponsored ride back to London in aid of the LCEF. Nice! Greg […]
Have a last sip of dutch courage and gulp down some good, long, deep breaths coz here comes the pain! Yup, it’s Donkey Derby time in Clerkenwell again and an important milestone in the frenetic life of the unstoppable juggernaut that has become the Rollapaluza experience. Born out of courier roller racing as ‘Goldsprints’ a […]
The flyer says it all. Well, nearly. What it doesn’t say is that The Foundry, that most venerable and respected of public houses, that shining gateway to the East, that bastion of positive neo-liberalism and boundry-burning art, that couth purveyor of exotic sounds, that magnet for ‘choice characters of a grittier mettle’, is currently fighting a late battle for nothing else but […]
Following on from the sell-out success of our first run of LCEF hoodies, here we have a new addition to the stable in the shape of the super-fly ZIPPED HOODY as modelled here by our impressively steely-eyed and noble model, Homer. We managed to deliver on a few pre-orders that we took during the Courier Appreciation Day but then finally shipped the remaining Hoodies […]
Full thanks to those involved here but a splendid effort all round to those involved and to all those that turned up making this a most excellent and memorable day – yeah man, let’s do it again soon!
