Festival of Heat

London's Chilli Festival returns for round two in 2014, and since 3,500 heat-seeking Londoners turned out last year, you'd be wise to get there in good time to enjoy the attractions. The farm will be aglow with stalls selling every iteration of pepper product, from chilli sauces, pickles and preserves to fiery food. To ease the burn there'll be a bar stocked with local brews, live folk music and workshops in cooking and chilli growing, as well as all the farm's usual family-friendly attractions – cute animals and a tree house to climb, as well as the Speak Spanish and Spice Up Your Sunday playgroup. This year the farm will be asking for voluntary donations that will go towards feeding the animals, since they can't be expected to subsist on chilli jam.