The E15 choir

On LB C radio there has been a lot of discussion on the legacy of the Olympics.  Of course most of Newham is still very shabby- the Olympic shopping centre gross and ugly - full of stuff nobody really needs and very few round there can afford. I do expect loads of shops to close there in the New Year.  It is a place with no history, no traditions.No room for any sentiment- a Gradgrind sort of place.
But The Theatre Royal, sort of re branded as Stratford East did get some money and used a little to form a choir. Now the funding has stopped and individuals mostly from the Borough, including a few of my friends, now self fund their choir and we went to the Christmas concert at the theatre.  A wonderful hour and showing that excellence (ie Spitalfields Festival) does not always make the best entertainment

East End Sunday Service: The St Parish Church of St Chad's, Haggeston, Dunl...

East End Sunday Service: The St Parish Church of St Chad's, Haggeston, Dunl...: Every time I visit a Catholic church I want to confess, not necessarily to expose my fraudulent faith but instead to grapple with some guilt...


I must be one of the 'nans'!

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BBC News - East End Trades Guild to be launched in Spitalfields

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In fact it was launched with some style last night at Christ Church
Ushered in with banjos and trumpets and traditional London songs
Paul Gardner the market sundriesman surprised us all by wearing a suit- and giving a superb address

Welcome to Poppies Fish and Chips Spitalfields

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even better now- and a loyalty card too

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Lord Mayor's Show 2012 - Festivals

Lord Mayor's Show 2012 - Festivals

Heba will be there - look out for us
Our lorry has a huge bobbin winding.
Lots of children and women dressed up with somewhere to go

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It's a must- try the Pop up tarts and corned beef hash.

Allotment coach outing

We normally go once or twice a year to a RHS garden.

This one- on September 22nd, seemed to be the last day of the summer

Our not so subtle poster

This is just not good.  Nothing subtle about the latest offering in Spitalfields.
I wonder how long this will stay in place

Harvest festival in Kent

Kent sounds good but actually the London Borough of Bexley.  Lamborey, very pretty and I had never heard of it but it is a place that we will know a bit more soon for family reasons.  We did not know it was Harvest Festival so it was with some dismay we saw the parade of guides, brownies, beavers, scouts and all the flags out- and the inevitable Betjeman poem about the church mouse!  The Mass was actually very beautiful with a choir and lovely hymns but it was freezing cold...............I could not wait to get out and warm up with some hot coffee in the church hall. Unfortunately I managed to tip a full cup down my  front and mysteriously  into a bag that held my knitting- the front of the half finished jumper   now has a rather surreal brown pattern.

From 'The Times' J C Superstar'

Got free tickets otherwise I would not have bothered. What a great show and had to copy the Times review- it is behind a pay wall

It’s big, it’s loud, it’s great entertainment. And if it lacks finesse now and then, this arena staging of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s breakthrough musical from 1970 makes up for that in sheer welly.

The Apostles burst on to the stone steps of Mark Fisher’s stage dressed as modern-day urban protesters. Some do acrobatics, one wears a Ramones T-shirt, one lobs a petrol bomb; yeah, it’s half-Occupy, half-Stomp, but the staging follows the conceit through and you know that Laurence Connor’s production is going to give a huge space a show to match.

The score, Lloyd Webber’s rockiest, is played with due respect to the original album, give or take some alarmingly loud techno bass in The Temple. And if the band sound as if they are turned up to 11 during the first half, the volume settles down in a superior second half. In the meantime there are graphics of tweets during What’s the Buzz, pharisees in business suits, Romans as riot police, tattoos and dreadlocks for Tim Minchin’s Judas Iscariot and Mel C’s Mary Magdalene.

Minchin, the Australian comedian who wrote the songs for Matilda the Musical, gives Judas a compellingly conflicted air. And though he could perhaps do with looking up a bit more, his needly vocals and presence power the show.

Ben Forster won the role of Jesus through Lloyd Webber’s television talent contest Superstar. Even allowing for Jesus’s self-doubt, Forster has a diffidence about him that isn’t very messianic. But such doubts become cavils when you hear him sing, never better than when he hits the high notes in Gethsemane as Jesus considers his fate. The crowd, quite rightly, goes nuts.

He also contrasts well with Minchin and Chisholm on the gorgeousEverything’s Alright. The former Spice Girl, in her white dress and leather jacket, sings beautifully, holding on to her own singing style yet always serving the story. As does Chris Moyles, who knows just how to sell his comedy number as King Herod. This Herod is a brash talk-show host asking viewers to text in their views (“Lord or Fraud?”) in a blatantly fixed poll. Playing to the cameras that project his and everyone else’s performances on to the giant screen upstage, he does a great job.

The show gets the right balance between the spectacular, the jokey and the sincere. When the stage is bathed in red light, funk-rock riffs ring out and Judas rises the staircase to hang himself, it’s sheer showmanship — but Minchin’s performance means that it really counts for something, too. Likewise, when Forster is crucified on a lighting rig, it’s ingenious but not facetious. The performances from the well-choreographed supporting cast are fine throughout. Honestly, it’s enough to give rock opera a good name.

When people romanticise the past, they're making a fetish of hardship | Julie Burchill | Comment is free | The Observer

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Stoke-on-Trent

Notice in the window of a shop in central Hanley

the centre of Hanley 

The end of the summer

I just can't believe how long it has been since I blogged.
the summer has flown past - we have had the Olympics and the Jubilee and our family have been fully involved in all of it. No pint in recounting our experiences.  

I am not so sure what I think of it all- the city has felt so different and I vary between thinking how amazing it all was and then how phoney it seemed at times.  As if we were in the last days of our civilization and one last blast and then the banks, churches, parliament would all fall to dust- as I walk past the huge office blocks around here-seeing people peering at screens producing nothing we can see directly- the huge church of Spitalfields towering over Brushfield street, the bus that pulls up most nights to feed the psychotic and alcoholic in the shadow of that great edifice.
Since the Olympics ended there have been signs of this area failing.  At least four shops in the Mall that they call Spitalfields market have closed- Adnams of Suffolk gone, ChiChi boutique closed and windows covered in brown paper- handbag shop packed their bags a week ago and Nigel Hall menswear in the corner of the market closed this week.  The Sunday markets seem very much quieter and our stall we rented a few weeks ago was mostly visited by people sheltering from the rain.  The market authorities try to hide it by putting up art galleries in the empty shops- just an alternative to Sue Ryder of PDSA

Maybe we have just come to our senses and stopped buying a load of tat that nobody needs.

from the brilliant Janice Turner of 'The Times'

'Get smarter security, Wills. Keep your top on outdoors, Kate. Then resume your lives, unusually blessed with both privilege and love

The Bourne Legacy

It's a God forsaken spot that could be in flyover US

Another free preview from 'The Times'  At 10am in Beckton the area feels like the countryside in remote Essex with a almost deserted leisure complex dropped in. About 2 miles from Stratford this is one of the eeriest parts of London.  On the bus everyone had a tatooo, even an elderly lady who looked about 80.

The film was very James Bond-like with  bike chases and violent but thought provoking.

Glimpse of the Old East End at Excel centre

All my family including me, worked at one time in the Docks. These are two reminders of that tradition. My sister died 14 years ago and she would not have recognised any of this. The area is so changed and is now entirely leisure rather than work. But the contrast between the two sides of the railway bridge  by Excel is two different worlds. One entirely corporate, the other municipal council.  Both awful and destroying any signs of individuality

The Excel - Olympics

We attended two events, the rehearsal of the Opening Ceremony- and the wrestling at Excel which was fascinating.- although all the eastern european athletes were beaten

The other Stratford

There are two Stratfords nowadays. Not 'on Avon' but the one at the Olympic Park which is really a another country full of beautiful, tanned toned people.
the other one is much more interesting. On the day the Olympic stadium opened for athletics, I went to the shopping centre 200 yards away. No,, not Westfield, but the Old Mall, which itself replaced Angel Lane over forty years ago. This is the real thing, just like the coke which the chap at the start of the film casually tossed on the ground.
There  followed a stand off with the police watching warily nearby

Opening Ceremony rehearsal

We saw this last night and were asked not to publish photos or give details. So I am just reprinting the model of the arena that is already in the public domain.  I have seen already many have published images of the actual event on the web- a real shame as Danny Boyle himself appealed to the audience not to do this.
The show we saw, though not completed, was amazing, very moving and has particular relevance to West Ham supporters.

our Olympic Workshop with Heba

This free workshop gave the children the choice of making olympic keyring, flags, brooches.   I was working on the flag section and this proved to be very popular especially as the Olympic torch was coming past half an hour after our workshop closed. Some of the children are extremely talented- and I had five year old children sewing very well. Anjum designed another brilliant occasion for local children.  the plan is to take the chow on the road into the docklands area of Newham in August

The Spitalfields Olympic Trail

One of several figures on the Mandeveille theme that appeared in Spitalfields overnight. I find these figures rather creepy but I think you are meant to walk around and sort of spot them. Going out early one morning I took a photo of our beloved mayor Boris posing next to one. I just called to him to look my way- and although there were banks of photographers there, he posed for me.  He is not too full of himself to pose for photos

http://www.oldspitalfieldsmarket.com/home/events/stroll-discovery-walks.html

Stockport's Plaza Cinema

After a rainy day in Stockport, very depressing and run down I was lucky enough to step into another world at The Plaza. Past the church on the square where a Mass was said as older kids gathered on the gravestones outside sharing dog-ends, this was a step back into the past. A bow tied chap greeted the few people who came upstairs to the fabulous restaurant/tea room.  For about a quarter of the price of The Ritz, and just as good but far less formal you could have service in a world that seems so unlike the Stockport of The Mersey Shopping Centre. All the waitresses volunteer their time and do a fantastic job.  Next time I am in Stockport I am going to make sure I go there for at least an hour and see the auditorium which is supposed to be the finest in the North of England           http://stockportplaza.co.uk/

The Mill

a 'sold' piece of work £100

This is a really great place, a community centre in it's true sense and unlike some of the ghastly 'hubs' that have mushroomed in Newham and are just like mortuaries staffed by council officials. Family live nearby so it is so handy to go to St James Street station and then one minute walk you are in friendly, comfortable surroundings where you just meet all sorts of people- mostly making things that you only see in the hands of middle aged women.  I just hope this place succeeds- today it was packed.

'soft' versions of hard objects- part of a current exhibition at 'The Mill'

The Mill Walthamstowhttp://themill-coppermill.org/

Chaucer's house Aldgate

London is really like no other place. Within ten minutes walk from our house you can see changes every day. Here we saw the building of Chaucer's house. It is meant to be temporary until after the Olympics but the builders told me they thought it was a permanent structure. 

The work drew lots of interest from the city workers- this is rather a quiet part of the City.  It used to be lovely with the 'Three Nuns Hotel' nearby where I remember tracing their outlines on the signs while we were always seeming to wait for buses.

And then on the way home this..  I saw the chap last year- he normally has a younger man with him who just kind of guards the pianist. I think this is the last year of the pianos in London

A Summer like no other

That was the billing. I don't know if it is just me, but after the Jubilee and all the brilliant things we were invited to- it all seems a but flat. The weather has been terrible and the markets where I sell have been pretty flat. 
3 quizzes- which I will blog about when I have downloaded the photos - were either very tense or a bit dull frankly.  The Spitalfields festival I felt was not as exciting as usual and we have not taken full advantage of the City of London Festival. 
We did have a wonderful trip to Pakefield Caravan Park!  Again photos to follow.  I do get the stats on my blog and find it astonishing that people do read this rather dismal sort of diary. I don't include the personal things, perhaps I should.

OLYMPIC ARTS AND CRAFT FAMILY WORKSHOP :: Rich Mix

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Lots of us will be there with Heba

London's Cable Car is open | Greater London Authority

London's Cable Car is open | Greater London Authority

The End of the Summer Spitalfields Festival

I think this was meant to be a sort of homage to the closing day of the two week festival and ushering in the night.
the time was 9pm and we had just heard a concert of choral english music at Christ Church.  Like many of these events that are supposed to be significant it was frustrating. Too short to see much, and lost my two friends who were with me at the concert and then got lost in the stampede to the square. I could not hear the chants either.  And of course, it rained

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Barbican -An Evening With Sweet Honey in the Rock

Barbican -An Evening With Sweet Honey in the Rock

Fire on the Green - J. Cullen - All Saints Chorus

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London Lumani Choir

One of the last concerts of the season.  It seems very lazy not to go there more often- the church is one of the Bishop of London's pet projects and hosts work around reconciliation.
I think though it is more famous for its world music concerts, hosted by Wallee.
This choir was meant to be Cuban music but to me it just sounded totally african- but then I am a real philistine about music

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Laka D

The first week of the festival and my first stewarding session of the season.
Laka D is brilliant and the choir, embarrassingly for such an area, all white, some known to me, singing beautiful upbeat jazzy songs.
As a lowly steward my task was to stand there, give out programmes and wear a yellow lanyard with my name on it.  You would think that was pretty easy.
Mistake number 1  Got there one minute too early and crashed the  professional organisers meeting instead of waiting for the stewards briefing.  The pros tend to huddle together and whisper as if they were organising the D Day landings
Mistake number 2 Do not get your  lanyard twisted!  Mine was and worse still came off entirely when I removed my scarf
mistake number 3 Missing out on the fire steward duties. They consist of sitting on a chair by the exit until the end of the show. Instead I opted for giving out the programmes-and that led to
Mistake number 4 Surely I should not need reminding to add the word 'free' to the word programme when dishing them out.  Avoids that dash past you

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Jubilee Party in Spitalfields

Sunday Morning

How long, how long can lovers last?

the days, the weeks, the years fly past

And only dreams can stem the flow

As crowds and clouds just come and go.

Come and hold me, close my eyes

And open my heart and calm my cries

This poem is by Bernard Kops- I am not a great fan of his but love this poem for its simplicity and it was printed in Spitalfields Life this morning.  

An by the window there is an enormous roar and hundreds of motorbikes and scooters are coming down  Commercial Street.  They would have drowned out the bells of Christ Church pealing for Pentecost

Bunting making

I would have sneered at this even a few years ago- but now love the idea of celebrating the quirkiness of England- and the chance to make bunting for my friends and decorate our streets.  last night our sitting room was turned into a bunting factory -John doing the hard work with the pinking scissors while I just machine away - it's the easy, fun bit

The Friday night meal

It was not our first visit to a synagogue but the first to hear the full Friday night service in an orthodox synagogue. We friends sat with the women -about twenty of us and only us four were christian. We tried to follow the service with the english translation but it was all sang in hebrew except for the occasional aside 'over the page' by the magnificent cantors. You can see one of them in the video- I dare not record part of the service but the clip is of the three course meal afterwards; a blessing with wine, then chicken soup, followed by gefilte fish and hummus and then chicken, potatoes and salad. Myself and a friend then finished the evening at 'the Merchant' a new cafe/type bar place at Liverpool Street station which was busy but not packed.  We could not quite face Witherspoons at the front of the station as that was heaving- as were all the pubs locally.  It was the first evening in ages where there was no rain

Green Space Guardians award - National Trust

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Susan's garden in other words.
She says it is just £10 a year to become a key holder- and then there is a waiting list for a small plot

Hackney Free no more

http://www.theurswickschool.co.uk/

The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, visited and officially opened The Urswick School in Paragon Road, Hackney on 26 April 2012.

During his visit, as well as unveiling a commemorative plaque, the Archbishop toured the school, watched a drama performance on the history of the school and held a special opening service, where he joined in with an African drumming performance by Hands of Africa, the school's male drumming group.

Following the service, the Archbishop was presented with a cityscape pencil drawing by Year 11 student Qui Phan and a monogrammed, stone carving by Year 10 student Promise Adeosun. The Archbishop released 300 balloons, with prayers written by Urswick students attached, from the school's environmental roof as part of the celebrations.

During the opening service, attended by students and guests, the Archbishop said:


"What a fantastic school. I encourage all the students to continue to exceed all expectations with their studies. All of you students are gorgeous, talented and gifted. God loves and calls each one of you by name. So be the best you want to see."


The Urswick School is one of the oldest schools in the country. Founded in 1520 as Hackney Free and Parochial, the school was based on a number of sites before moving to its permanent home in Paragon Road in 1951.


The school has been completely rebuilt in three phases, as part of the Government's Building Schools for the Future programme. Work was completed last year and the school became The Urswick School in September, in recognition of the school's founder, Christopher Urswick.
Headteacher, Richard Brown, said:


"I am absolutely delighted that the Archbishop was able to officially open the school. We are proud of our school's history and today was a celebration of our past and the future of The Urswick School. Our new school buildings and facilities have given our students a fantastic environment to learn in. We are now looking forward to building on our improving GCSE results and opening our new Sixth Form Academy in September. 

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4 friends are in this...I ought to go and see them.  But then again

preview of Wah-Wah Girls

http://www.sadlerswells.com/show/Wah-Wah-Girls

Craft Stall in Islington

Bessie is our travelling workhorse

http://www.khwgarden.org.uk/

Anyone interested can look this up. Small plots can be got for £25 a year and a short waiting list. Susan has a plot and I normally help with her sewing... the children are actually much better at most things than me

Woodbrooke Quaker College Birmingham

part of the walled garden

the last of the cherry blossom

Course participants snake through the grounds

part of the woodlands

http://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/

All in Good time

We got in for free- a preview and a change to meet the young stars of the film.  
Recommended as light and a bit cheesy- but wonderful to see Bolton and many shots of the town.  It was followed by a Q and A- although the audience had got in free most made a quick exit left.  The actors were very posh and self assured- very unlike the great naive characters they portray in the film.  Fay said to me 'Well, they are actors'  Fair point I suppose

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the Hustings For Mayor of London

A group of us booked tickets via the BBC for this recording of the four main contenders for the mayoral-  quite an uninspiring, point scoring, depressing 'debate' but Andrew  Neil  hosted brilliantly.

Stratford 'Circus' is a prefabricated building dumped next to the Theatre Royal which has also mysteriously been renamed Stratford East.

Gospel concert in Waterloo

http://serefo.org.uk/

Dr Arnold, founder of SRF and the Mayor of Wandsworth Mrs Jane Taylor

This was a fundraiser for the Separation and Reunion Forum. a group concerned with helping people heal from the separation of mothers and children in the fifties and sixties as a result of migration from the West Indies. The concert had the most marvellous Barbados nurses choir and the tenor Ronald                 .
I am afraid I can never stop myself trying to sing along...But wanted people to hear the choir

Jonah Lehrer

http://www.jonahlehrer.com/

It's just been a week of continuous rain and it has made us all a bit fed up. After a taste of how wonderful London can be in warm spring weather a couple of weeks ago, London has been given a good thrashing of rain.  We had booked tickets for this lecture by Jonah and our friend was keen to go.
I was too, struggling to learn sewing and get some creativity going as a therapy I was keen to know what the latest research is in neuro- science about inspiration and why some people make a good fist of things- if not brilliance, and others don't.


We booked the lecture through 'The School of Life' and it was part of their Sunday Service series.

http://www.theschooloflife.com/Sermons
 Modelled on a church service we sang a very funny Ian Dury 'hymn'

Noel Coward was a charmer.
As a writer he was brahma.
Velvet jackets and pyjamas,
"the gay divorce" and other dramas.

There ain't half been some clever bastards
(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
There ain't half been some clever bas-tards.

Van Gough did some eyeball pleasers.
He must have been a pencil squeezer.
He didn't do the Mona Lisa,
That was an Italian geezer.

There ain't half been some clever bastards
(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
There ain't half been some clever bas-tards.

Einstein can't be classed as witless.
He claimed atoms were the littlest.
When you did a bit of splitting-em-ness
Frighten everybody shitless

There ain't half been some clever bastards.
Probably got help from their mum
(who had help from her mum).
There ain't half been some clever bastards.
Now that we've had some,
let's hope that there's lots more to come.

There ain't half been some clever bastards
(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
There ain't half been some clever bas-tards.

Okey-dokey!
Oh!
Segovia.
Da-laa la-laa da-daa da-lee
De dump di dump de dump-dump-diddle li-lee.

There ain't half been some clever bastards
(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
There ain't half been some clever bastards
(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
There ain't half been some clever bastards
(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
There ain't half been some clever........
bastards





 followed by a Bob Dylan song which illustrated how Dylan scooped ideas from very diverse sources to produce a flash of inspiration that came out in the song 'Like a rolling stone'


The essence was that we need to choose our aims carefully and in the end how much 'grit' we have, ie determination and perseverance, added to our creativity sparks will be the main predictor of our achievement.  Jonah talked about clusters of creativity, where against popular myth, groups of very highly talented thinkers met together - and this is going to be more and more likely as the problems we need solving get more complicated and team work is more likely to produce genius than the individual working alone.

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My Life in Travel: David Starkey, historian and television presenter - News & Advice - Travel - The Independent

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I so agree with him

The changing face of Brick Lane

The Ice Cream parlour makes way for another money change place

Bengali Cafe goes- coffee and cakes comes

A trip round the Olympic park

the best bit of the park 

the Green Tube walking path 

Only three months to the Games. And we toured the park, courtesy of LO-Cog and a jolly Hockey guide who name checked some of the athletes as if they were personal friends.  It was like 'Here's where Tom is going to dive and Perri is not going to stay in Mile End but here in the village"
The Park has some great buildings but seems very bitty and just like a series of installations like at an art gallery. The loveliest  but was a small fifties type industrial building with a cafe for the builders and that is planned to come down I think. But perhaps it just needs people to make the place live.

Henrietta, Mavis and Joan

Henrietta's  poem

Henrietta and 

Mavis

our three great ladies of Spitalfields

http://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/01/21/mavis-bullwinkle-secretary/