Famous Five adventures in London

We're getting innocent on your ass. Itchy has had enough summertime debauchery to get us into hell three times over, so we're waving goodbye to festival hangovers, Shoreditch sweat and hazy memories of waking up in the bus depot at Walthamstow.

And saying hello to a Famous Five-style day of innocent pleasures. Where could be better to turn over a new leaf than at Hackney City Farm? Start by patting Larry the donkey, because a donkey-pat is a sure-fire way of finding your lost soul. If that's not life-affirming enough for you (who are you? Hitler?) we're a big fan of Clover and Charlock, the gorgeous Golden Gurnseys. That's a type of goat, city kid...
www.hackneycityfarm.co.uk

Don't leave without sipping a ginger beer at the Frizzante Café, which looks plucked straight out of the pages of Country Life. Ahhh, aren't we all wholesome and smug? But all this cavorting with pigs and calves has given us a furious hunger for bacon and burgers, so it's off to nearly Broadway Market. You can practically feel the organic, expensive goodness seeping into your cells as you chow down on the best dead animal products around. www.broadwaymarket.co.uk

There's time for a spot of Frisbee in London Fields on the way to London Fields Lido, a happy, splashy oasis in the heart of the UK's gun murder capital. It takes a fair amount of retro charm to coax us into the water, but with colourfully painted changing cabines, this place has it in bucketloads.
www.londonfieldslido.co.uk

Now hop on your bike for a jaunt along Regents Canal, stopping for a quick milkshake at the bike-friendly haven Lock 7 Cafe, one of the few places in east London where you won't get your bike nicked within minutes.
www.lock-7.com

Now for lashings and lashings of ice-cream at Fortnum and Mason's 50's ice-cream parlour, The Parlour. A Knickerbocker Glory might cost the same as a round of drinks, but innocence doesn't come cheap.
www.fortnumandmason.com

Just because you're on the wagon doesn't mean you need to be tucked up in bed by 9pm, so it's off to Vauxhall for the Rollerdisco at the Renaissance Rooms. Best of all, you know that if your head spins, it's your crap skating, not the cider. Champion.
www.rollerdisco.info

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