The best thing about a house party on a Saturday is couch surfers and residents gathering on hungover Sunday and engaging in good chats over copious mugs of tea. The topics of conversation? Anything from the previous night’s housewarming gifts (out of a skip), to is cat the opposite of dog? and of course, best places to go in London.

Gordon’s on Villiers Street was mentioned as a favourite London institution and after visiting the George Inn, pre-party, on Saturday night - I’d put it in the same cateogry. This is just one of those pubs that oozes England and history out of every floorboard and beam - but not in a Shakespeare gift-shop tea towel kind of way.

Tucked away down a little alley off Borough High Street the outside is overflowing with tables perfect for summer drinking. I was attending a party and a room had been hired, so I ducked in to find a glorious little space with beams and wood and tables, a darling little hatch which serves as a bar and plenty of smiley party goers. Friendly staff completed the package - the next sunny day there is I’ll be back, and hopefully outside drinking Pimm’s! There I go, being English again…