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 [...]

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, [...]

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, [...]

Stratford: Hot or Not?

There was meant to be a new post this morning, but our internet decided not to work, as usual offering no explanation or justification for its volatile behaviour. Soon, however, I will be at the mercy of a new router because *drum roll* I am moving house on Saturday! To exciting, uncharted Leytonstone.
Because I’m about [...]

The Mount Fear project / Facebook wades into London politics

I love this:

It’s a work by Abigail Reynolds called Mount Fear. The model landscape is generated from East London crime statistics. She describes it better:
The terrain of Mount Fear is generated by data sets relating to the frequency and position of urban crimes. Precise statistics are provided by the police. Each individual incident adds to [...]

Sex and death

I thought that would get your attention Jack the Ripper is coming to Docklands. To the Museum of Docklands, to be precise, with his very own exhibition. They tell me that:
Although no one knows who he was, Jack the Ripper is probably the capital’s most infamous son, his story passing into legend, shaping the [...]

Is public art a waste of space?

I know that’s the question that has been keeping you awake at night too. So on behalf of all of us I went to a free arts debate on the subject last week in the National Gallery. I’ll come back to it later but Apollo magazine has a good summary of the issues that came [...]

Leytonstone Lady

Following a brief reconnaissance mission at the weekend, I will shortly be shifting Sajarina HQ a few miles further East to Leytonstone. Admittedly, I did visit on an almost criminally nice day, and spent a while enjoying the sunshine among the graves and bluebells (frigging bluebells!) in the churchyard of St John the Baptist, which [...]

“That gorgeous playing-place erected in the fields”

As a big Shakespeare fangirl (the last scene of The Winter’s Tale makes me cry every damn time I read it, which was fairly inconvenient while I was writing my dissertation) I was pleased to read a bit in Saturday’s Grauniad about his links with Shoreditch, which in fact has a pretty solid [...]

** Piglet Alert **

Here’s a scampery lot, courtesy of Newham City Farm.
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