Well apologies again for the lengthy silence (but also many thanks to the 30 odd daily visitors checking out Sajarina even without any new posts - you rock my tiny webstat counting world!) As you might have guessed I have been further East than usual, to Istanbul. It rocked, in a big old buildings, iznik [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 15, 2008
The tree for me
S for Sajarina! We were in Epping Forest again, enjoying the sunny loveliness. Graffiti on trees seems bizarre to me (spraycans that is, when it’s carved it’s retro, even romantic, like in Robin Hood) Why would you want to tag a tree?
June 9, 2008
Bromley-By-Bomb, someone in my shoes and fluffy insect love
On Friday night the unexploded WW2 device in Bow was detonated - I don’t have much to add to Going Underground’s post, which includes a dramatic still from a BBC video.
As I was leaving the house a few mornings ago a woman walked past wearing my shoes. Not just the same style from the same [...]
June 6, 2008
Lift festival lands in Stratford
After my whinge about the lack of decent public art in Stratford, here comes a whole new festival of art, with a giant moving tent, no less! Lift comes from the same people that brought us the Sultan’s Elephant, apparently, and that was fabulous.
Festival events are running from the 12 June to the 6 July, [...]
June 4, 2008
Rainy roof flowers
These amazing gutter flowers make me happy Anyone know what they are? I thought they were foxgloves at first, but on closer inspection they look like something approaching a snapdragon. It seems very poetic, to see beauty striving through neglect, even in somewhere proper skanky like Thatched House.
June 2, 2008
Waging war on mass-produced tat
*Fanfare* I now have internet access! Will get to work making up for lost blogging time.
*Nother fanfare* I went out this weekend! On an expedition to Walthamstow.
As promised, I paid a visit to the small but perfectly formed East London Craft Guerrilla Market on Saturday, and purchased this lovely grisly necklace:
It’s made by Glowing Doll, [...]
