Your New Year's essential read. Five local feel-good highlights, including exclusive special offers and events. Prepared with love by the team at Camdenist

 EAT: Unlimited £5 meals at Camden Market  

Camden's markets - which include the swish new Hawley Wharf and eco-focused Buck Street, as well as the canal-side yard and historic stables - are really tempting us back out on these chilly winter days, with this proper wallet-friendly food deal. You'll discover 

over 80 different traders

 offering dishes from all corners of the world for only £5. We suggest you quickly 

download your voucher here

 and keep it at hand to redeem against 

as many £5 meals as you can eat

between now and 13th February. Bargainous culinary adventures surely await...

 SHOP: Tufnell Park's latest additions 

Long renowned for its cleverly curated selection of independent high street shops, Fortess Rd has just seen its offering strengthen even further. Fam Market (painted above c/o @thesecretartistNW5) have upped sticks from the south to the north side of the road, more that doubling their capacity to serve fabulous fresh produce in the process. With their sister branch also a firm destination for weekend Heath walkers up at Swain's Lane, Fam is proving a great local success story that's had residents in raptures. Meanwhile a few doors down, brilliant beer specialists Caps & Taps have relocated from the lower end of Kentish Town Road, bringing back their winning combo of bottles and cans from the world's most exciting breweries, in-store tastings and yes, even the obligatory low and no alcohol bevvies for those currently deep in the midst of a Dry Jan. They deliver for free, too.

 THEATRE: New shows hit Euston's stages 

Camden People's Theatre

 promises a run of 

exciting new performances

 over the coming weeks. 

Wild Country

explores motherhood and exile whilst dark comedy

Cell Outs

, performed by two ex-prison officers, is an unusual insight into working behind bars. At the nearby

New Diorama

The Winston Machine

, is a family saga centred around Becky, who is stuck in the 1940s. And if you need any further persuasion to go out and support local arts right now, they're offering free slices of Dominoes pizza to every audience member until June!

 MUSIC: Camden Live back at the Fiddlers Elbow 

With confidence rising again after the December devastation of Omicron, live music torchbearers

CMDN Live

return to legendary venue the

Fiddler's Elbow

 on Wednesday (26th) with a rescheduled night of live rock, metal, alt-pop and more. Local band Feeb & The Queen (pictured) play alongside psychedelic guitar guy Victor and the New Vintage and the Camden debut of Clara Thadea among others. Drinks are cheap, so support the acts, promoters and the venue simply by having a great midweek night.

 VIDEO: Epic Highgate history stroll 

We've highlighted the London walks of Youtube fave John Rogers in the Weekly C-Mail before (when he meandered down the route of the lost local River Fleet). He's back in the 'hood again here with this tour around Highgate, which takes in vampire legends of the Cemetery, famous residents and the many pubs that still characterise the village. Check the comments under the video too, as local buffs add loads more information, too.

 THIS WEEK'S ONE-CLICK POLL With the government just having announced the likely road map to the end of all Covid restrictions, where’s your head at? 

LAST WEEK WE ASKED:

Conscientious responses from most of you this week, as we've become a nation of Zoom pros. A fair few are more than happy with the limelight (even if they bought it themselves), but with the days of work-from-home mandates potentially over, the biggest - unanswerable - question is how much time we'll actually now spend stuck working and socialising on video calls in 2022...

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