Well we've had a bit of a calamitous time here lately as my Dad injured himself by falling off a garage roof! Oops. But on the bright side he's been pinned back together and is now recovering back at home and me, C and Ru have just been on a weeks holiday! Yay. More about that soon. But all this left little time for blog writing. Darn. So I thought I'd catch up on a few posts and photos I've been keeping up my sleeve for a few weeks...
We recently visited my lovely friend Dana of Beards and Buttons back in lovely London town and spent a day in and around the east. I love it. I'd forgotten how vibrant and inspiring it is. We had a great day just wandering, perusing shops and markets, stumbling across random live music and even one mini festival in a recently renovated old bandstand in the middle of a sort of roundabout-come-square! First though was Coloumbia Road flower market...
Then a short walk to Spitalfields market - one of my favourite places when I lived up in London town. It's been a tad over renovated in the last few years but I still love the building and they've kept the feel of the old shop fronts and signage. Me and C were lusting after these gorgeous bikes from the pop-up shop by Tokyo Bikes for ages afterwards!
On route we passed the beautiful new East London tube line - I'm a sucker for oversized concrete architecture!
Then we spotted this gem of a piece of graffiti nestled under a tree on a meandering route back to the flat. Ru was especially impressed - he's a fan of squirrels. Quite right.
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It was at the end of this street that we spotted and heard the mini festival celebrating the 100th anniversary of the bandstand in the middle of Arnold Circus. There was a fantastic brass band playing covers of pop songs and people picnicing at little checked tableclothed benches dotted around the place, some beautiful stalls and a guy taking portraits with some great cardboard props! We were tempted but the queue was enormous. Such a lovely and unlikely event to just stumble upon one sunny Sunday afternoon.
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Then back home via the now empty Columbia Road and through London Fields... ahh I miss London. Must go back more often.
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I heart East London as well. We've just come back from a trip there too, as it's where my husband is from...so we like to visit the family every few weeks. We're actually contemplating a move there (though it seems that most people leave London to come this way, and we're thinking the opposite. Hmmm, what to do)! Glad you had a nice time. I'm a lover of concrete architecture too. Your photographs have captured the appeal of London that I see too x
ReplyDeleteThanks! Glad you liked the photos - it was a bit of a monster task to choose which to post as I'd got a bit snap happy. Some days everything inspires me! I can completely understand why you'd want to move there. Who cares whether other people are heading out. I've plenty of friends who've no intention of leaving ever - lucky me as I get somewhere to stay! And there are children everywhere round there which I also love. Hurrah x
ReplyDeletei love arnold circus. there was something going on there last time we were in the neighbourhood too. i love all that old council housing that surrounds it.
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