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The best picnic, wine and meal deliveries for your park catch-ups
Groups of up to six are now able to meet together outdoors, after the rules on social gatherings were relaxed on March 29. Great news for those with gardens, but let s not forget the joy of picnicking in the park. And, after a year of finding inventive ways to pivot, delivery services are planning to capitalise.
In London, a host of restaurants and delivery services have already confirmed that they’ll be delivering fine dining in the form of food and drinks directly to parks across the capital. Here s how to elevate your next London picnic.
For city dwellers who cannot get out to the countryside, one solution is to bring the countryside into the city. In the first-century AD, the Roman poet Martial coined the phrase
rus in urbe, in envious admiration of his rich friend Sparsus’s city villa, secluded and free from the constant roar of urban life. As city populations have grown, so has the need for ‘countryside in the city’ and its benefits. Different eras have offered similar solutions. In his pamphlet Fumifugium (1661), John Evelyn proposed making hedged plantations of ‘fragrant Shrubs, Trees, and Flowers’, which would give ‘Health, Profit, and Beauty’ to counteract the air pollution in London. By the late 18