Top 10 London

Charity fundraiser sees teams of four race up and down in celebration of Shrove Tuesday. Competing teams tba. Around 1000 participants and onlookers attend. Sponsored last year by Save The Children.

New exhibition covering mysteries transcending ordinary human knowledge. Covering all areas relating to the spiritual, psychic and paranormal. Guest speakers include Uri Geller, and a host of international experts.

London is one of more than 50 cities participating.

Outdoor event organised by The Chap magazine. Features a bizarre range of track and field events such as quill throwing, the relating of anecdotes, cucumber sandwich hurling and the martini knock-out relay.

Chronicle of the bizarre and paranormal holds convention.

Former footballer and commentator, now a conspiracy theorist and writer, hosts seminar. Icke made headlines when he appeared on The Terry Wogan Show in 1991, announcing that the world is run by reptilian humanoids; he also claimed to be the son of God. Books include Tales From The Time Loop, The Reptilian Agenda and Children Of The Matrix.

Events include a Design a Welly competition and a poetry contest.

It's the The Drag Olympics at the Way Out Club, where drag queens battle it out to be crowned Olympic champion of this crazy spoof competition.

Learn to build a bridge between heaven and earth, transform yourself and, er, heal the world. Well that's the idea anyway.

If you happen to have thick skin/an excruciating hangover and have got nothing better to do on Christmas morning, make your way to Hyde Park's Serpentine Lido for a "refreshing" dip.