London 2014-13

mo 15 Sep 2014	We now understand why Lady KRJ was bemused by the Aldeburgh carnival, the Hackney carnival in a large town yesterday was a bit overwhelming, no WI, boy scouts or volunteer firemen plus why do they need special policemen just for dancing?
tu 19 Aug 2014	As best we could make out peering over people's heads (security had apologetically moved us on from the ramp up to the Coop Daily) yesterday's Aldeburgh carnival parade had a samba/Brazilian theme. We thought it pretty impressive but our visiting guest from the east of a large town wanted to know where all the black people ... more here
tu 29 Jul 2014	We all know how councils like signs, in Hackney (it's in the east of a large town near Chelmsford) they put signs on signs ... we'll see how long it takes to reach the Wickden Triangle.
we 25 Jun 2014	Rural Myth 56: You can always tell people from a large town near Chelmsford because they lock the house up when they're in the garden.
we 4 Jun 2014	One of the nice things about a large town near Chelmsford is you can walk somewhere without a dog and not have every passing driver stare at you ... mind you from Sunday 6 July the buses won't accept cash, Oyster and contactless cards only.
tu 3 Jun 2014	A pretty and happy unofficial bride near Chelmsford ...
tu 15 Apr 2014	It has to be said that in the Halesworth Cut Friday night the Hackney Colliery Band were LOUD but at least half of the full house had seen them at last year's High Tide festival so knew what they were getting and had come back for more. Hard to categorise the band, they are thunderously driving, band leader Steve Pretty hot on the witty verbals and stage business, and snare drummer Luke Christie's expressive enthusiasm endearing and visually rewarding. Last day of the festival this Saturday.
su 9 Feb 2014	Last weekend we visited the Florence Trust winter open studios in north near Chelmsford. The (unheated) studios are hidden away on the private estate Aberdeen Park in what was St Saviour's church, completed in 1866 and still spectacularly and highly decorated inside with painted stonework. For thirty five quid you can become a friend of the trust and get a guided tour.
mo 6 Jan 2014	Just in case you don't get the not particularly good joke in the latest Paul Whitehouse ad the couple are Lord and Lady Brassisck, Brassick is (allegedly) how the east large town near Chelmsford community pronounce boracic which is rhyming slang ... boracic lint? ... skint?
th 19 Dec 2013	Any East Anglian interested in roller derby would have been heartened by a massive turnout for coaching by Croydon's Rolling Thunder at Suffolk Roller ... more on roller derby
mo 9 Dec 2013	... in a large town near Chelmsford
fr 18 Oct 2013	♫ Followed two black male police support officers into the Kingsland shopping centre in a large town near Chelmsford, much fist bumping, hailing and greeting, a bit like the scene in Saturday Night Fever where Tony, his chums and his older brother the priest enter the disco ... #Hackney eh?
we 16 Oct 2013	They are just as irritating in a large town near Chelmsford.
th 8 Aug 2013	At the top of the Olympic Park's 12ft boundary fence with Eastway near Chelmsford the razor wire and surveillance cameras have gone making the park look a bit less like a prison ... mind you there's still major excavation happening.
mo 1 Jul 2013	♫ Friday night around Silicon Roundabout in a large town near Chelmsford was an education for us, the pavements, bars and pubs heaving with TGIF ... and we got to understand how the shop Paper Dress Vintage becomes a venue. The stock is crammed in to a back room, the counter is already pretty much a bar and the shop window becomes the stage for the bands attracting the attention of passers by for free entry. It was a great pleasure to see K C Mckanzie again this time with her stand up bass player Boody and we enjoyed the singing and guitar style of the seemingly unknown first act on.
tu 21 May 2013	Despite rain being forecast we actually got a little sunburnt snapping Sunday on the outskirts of a large town near Chelmsford.
mo 6 May 2013	This appeared a little ways back at the end of Broadway Market in large town near Chelmsford. It's painted over this observation about Hackney and the 2012 Olympics.
su 7 Apr 2013	This is the second time we've noticed that the window display of London Fields Cycles in Hackney had been designed. Does this reflect a new attitude to cycling since a pretty girl won some medals on the telly or is it just a large town near Chelmsford?
su 13 Jan 2013	Views of Hackney in a large town near Chelmsford and East Passage off Cloth Court where poet laureate the late John Betjeman lived in a flat over a restaurant.

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