You know it’s coming. All those articles, promotions, and TV programmes telling you how to get your post-festive season body back into shape. You could chose to fight it but more than likely you really should just take the advice and plan your return to the gym. A snazzy, new kit it will make all the more bearable—exciting even to pull on such fashionable sports wear?!—you’ll also stand out like a newbie but go with it; at least you won’t be the only one. While you’re still eating mince pies Marie Teather does the hard work for you and finds the five best sports stores in London.

Time is running out and you are panicking. The shops are packed, it’s too late to shop on line and you don’t have time to meander. For this of you who have left your shopping this late here are a few last suggestions where you’ll still have time to leg it down the high street, grab your goods and then throw it under the tree.

Celebrities? London has been turning out the famed, the skilled, the loved, and the detested for the last few hundreds years. While today the definition of celebrity seems to include any face that appears on TV for more than five minutes, London still has its fair share of homegrown hot shots and those from across the pond. Marie Teather picks her top five.

London and afternoon tea go together like, well, tea and scones. The days when the British would down their tools and gather around a hot china tea pot and a plate of cucumber sandwiches may well be over but that’s not to say the tradition doesn’t live on. London’s finest hotels and restaurants continue to serve afternoon tea just as the ladies of old upper sets would have liked it. These days it’s more likely to come with the options of Champagnes and enough sweet treats to keep you hyper until supper, but hey, afternoon tea probably needed shaking up a little anyway. A regular to London’s afternoon tea establishments, Marie Teather talks you through her best.

With so many culinary influences to draw upon from a diverse population, London’s delis are some of the best in the world. It’s hard to go long without hearing of another new deli opening, while others have remained neighborhood favorites for decades. One thing is for sure, everyone has their favorite and it would be hard to complete a week of shopping without dropping by to pick up some fresh or homemade produce. Marie Teather dons her tote shopping bag and finds the best five delis in London.

Alex Cheatle is the founder and CEO of Ten Lifestyle Concierge—the world’s first lifestyle and home management service.

Today a copy of John James Audubon’s 1831 book Birds of America sold at Sotheby’s for $10.3 million.

Quite simply you cannot visit London without dedicated some of your time to shopping here. Home to some of the world’s most consumer defining shopping experiences, London’s shopping history can be traced through its historic and world famous departments stores. In one of her easiest challenges ever, Marie Teather hits the stores.

Anthony Lee is the General Manager of the May Fair Hotel and has lived in London since 1977. We get the lowdown on his London Haute Secrets.