Newsletter - 08 Jan 21

Meet Nell, the first of our amazing local champions

January 08, 2021 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes

Your Lockdown Lifeline: feel-good reads, exclusive deals and local highlights you can enjoy from home, prepared with love by the team at Camdenist

 Meet Nell, winner of our Doorstep Hero award 

Welcoming in 2021 with some much-needed uplifting stories, we're now announcing the people you voted for in the Camden Covid Champions awards. There will be a full profile of a different category winner each week, so look out for the full story of our Doorstep Hero winner, Nell (pictured above), when it's published on the website later today. She rallied hundreds of households across Gospel Oak and South End Green, collecting their donations for food banks in Chalk Farm, Camden and Euston, and was nominated by many of those same neighbours for her sterling effort. 

With Hampstead Heath proving once more to be an invaluable outdoor space for everyone during a lockdown, we've got an exclusive reward for those who begin or end a daily walk/run in South End Green. Diminutive new pit-stop The Nook serves speciality coffee, luxury hot chocolates, signature milkshakes and award-winning ice cream from a former ATM hole-in-the-wall opposite Hampstead Heath Overground. You can get 10% off everything just by mentioning Camdenist - the ideal treat on your daily consitutional, even if you can't currently sit down in the cosy interiour. 

Kids may not be at school at the moment, so they may want to spend a diverting few minutes reading about life at a Camden school back in 1911. No wait, they really might! Featuring vigorous caning, a furtive teacher romance and a 'pathetic' attempt at a concert, the latest in our series in association with Camden History Society is quite the page-turner. Read Bloomsbury School Memories from 1911 on Camdenist now.

Following New Year, 'tis the season to find fir trees dumped in the street across the borough. This year, make sure iyou're not one of those to blame, since as well as the easy-peasy free recycling points

, the goats at

Kentish Town City Farm

have been looking forward to nibbling their way through loads of local trees being collected today and through the weekend.

has been such a hit they can't book in any more collections, however you can still donate some much-needed funds to the upkeep of the farm during lockdown, and you'll find the tougher bits of tree chipped and soaking up mud on the walkways of Hampstead Heath sometime after the goat feast, too. 

Highgate Road's family pizzeria Rossella is using the enforced closure of lockdown to refurbish their long-running restaurant. But in order to keep serving their loyal customers with Italian classics, they've rather cleverly partnered up with The Lady Hamilton pub just down the road. That means not only can you get dinner delivered, it comes with top notch craft booze from one of the area's top pubs. This week there's 25% off if you order on Deliveroo, too. Yum yum!

Say the magic words 'free fries' when taking away a burger from Bill or Beak by the canal in Camden Market, and they'll give you just that - with loads of cheese on top.

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