Ice to see you

Londoners have never had so many chill-out options. Winter ice rinks are a recent tradition but now there's a summer version conveniently attached to Icespace (Potter's Field, Tooley Street, SE1).

It boasts 200 tonnes of water shipped from Canada, frozen and sculpted into a monumental palace by the Thames, which makes Mayfair's Absolut Ice Bar look like a small igloo in comparison.

Take your junior slush puppies to see daytime exhibitions, projections and themed performance art, because it's adults-only at night, when DJs and a Kremlyovskaya vodka and champagne bar transform it into a nippy nightclub.

Wussy Londoners should leave after an hour at -5 degrees C: a temperature that hardy Muscovites would deem positively balmy.

Fellow guests at its launch include The League Of Gentlemen, the Jaggers and the usual Arctic monkeys prepared to polar-bare their flesh for the papz.

Admission is a cool £21 (goody bag, parka and blade hire inclusive) but get your skates on before it goes into meltdown on June 30.