Telling it like it is

A plaintive noticeboard in Bethnal Green tube station

Dancing bots in Bethnal Green

Bank holiday weekend, woo! An East End accomplice called on Sunday night and asked if I wanted to go the Box Bot B Movie Bank Holiday Nightmare at the Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club. I said something along the lines of ‘hell yeah!’ and off we went.
Unfortunately we arrived too late to make ourselves cardboard [...]

See how I resist making a Duran Duran reference?

Iron-willed, that’s me. Because last weekend I paid a visit to the rather gorgeous Dalston Rio Cinema, to watch It Always Rains On Sunday, which was showing as part of the East End Film Festival. It was one of their ‘Silver Screen’ matinees, which are free for the over 60s and include tea and cake [...]

The Bop is back!

Two words: Unskinny. Bop.

I thought it was high time for a post that showed I do occasionally go out with my friends rather than just wander around on my own all day taking pictures of pigeons. And when I go out, I like to go to the Unskinny Bop at the newly refurbished Star of [...]

Are those space pants?

Because your ass is out of this world!
I am assuming here that you - the object of my affections - have not recently been to the Space Age exhibition at the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood. Had you been, and seen the pair of *actual* space pants on display, you might interpret “out of this [...]