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The second annual Tweed Run was held in London on 10 April 2010, setting off from Central London at midday, on a 14-mile route passing the British Museum, Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, Savile Row, stopping off in the park for a spot of tea and ending with a bit of a knees-up in the City [...]
Comments (10)The Grand Anarcho-Dandyist Ball
This was the Chap party of the decade, and anyone who missed it will have to wait another ten years for a party of this magnitude. Taking place within the revolutionary oak-panelled walls of Conway Hall in London’s Red Lion Square, 650 guests assembled to celebrate ten years of Britain’s only gentleman’s journal. Entertainment in [...]
Comments (13)Titchmarsh in Tweed
Popular children’s entertainer Sir Alan Titchmarsh has revealed a secret penchant for gentlemanly raiment. Mr Titchmarsh, 74, was spotted at this year’s Goodwood Revival wearing a rather fetching tweed ensemble, which would under normal circumstances easily pass muster in any country garden – on the gamekeeper. The lovable horticulturalist, popular with elderly ladies due to [...]
Comments (16)Piffle Snonkers, Senior Blowers and Vice Garglers
Sounds like the sort of rambling vocabulary one would perhaps associate with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band or a gibbering madman, but these names actually hold huge significance with the Ancient Order Of Froth Blowers, who this month held their annual ‘Friends Of The Froth Blowers’ Lunch at Simpson’s-in-the-Strand. The Froth Blowers effectively gained life [...]
Comments (1)Second Chap occupies Fourth Plinth
In a thrilling turn of events, a second brave fellow took it upon himself to ascend to the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square. Sebastian Gaunt, whose devotions include the Chap and Victorian traditions, was dressed from head to toe in formal Victorian attire, and was assisted to the Plinth by his valet at six [...]
Comments (3)Chap on Fourth Plinth
Victor Martinez, a gentleman of Hispanic origins, took the opportunity offered to the entire nation to spend an hour on the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. As any casual observers will have noted, ninety-nine per cent of the plinth’s occupants have been ill-prepared buffoons vaguely twittering on about some charity or other. Not so [...]
Comments (27)The 2009 Chap Olympiad
The sixth Chap Olympiad was another roaring success. The damp fields of Bloomsbury provided a familiar backdrop to an Olympiad with a few original touches. With no official sponsor, there were no corporate banners looming over the proceedings, and our co-hosts Bourne & Hollingsworth ensured the athletes were kept lubricated with a steady flow of [...]
Comments (39)Tweed Pedal Pushers
Hundreds of cyclists poured along London’s narrow streets one sunny day earlier this year. So what? you ask. This unattractive disruption to one’s perambulation is a daily occurrence, and one has learned to look the other way when cyclists are about, to avoid the glare of their brightly coloured Lycra outfits. But these were not [...]
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