the size of the walrus

This FREE museum is just half an hour away on the Overground from Shoreditch high street.. It is an amazing place- natural history and this enormous walrus and a very good photographic exhibition of the old cultural festivals of England- and not just May Day.
Even more fascinating was the armies of yummy mummies with their children- coaching them along- toddlers listening to professional story tellers- most of the children were less than a year and could not possibly understand what was going on.  Teaching starts early in this affluent part of South london

Our Saturday workshop

These are some of the results of a three hour workshop workshop at Heba.  Two of these women are complete beginners!   We meet every Saturday at 10am

Free Craft Class

modelling one of the designs

This is a FREE workshop on Monday afternoons at the only school in the City of London.
the teacher, Hafsna, will help with any craft project and there is a friendly atmosphere. The class has some very talented needlewomen and designers and also some beginners.  All are welcome and the classes are aimed at mothers and grandparents-


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Olek

http://www.theupcoming.co.uk/2012/03/06/dont-miss-out-street-artist-olek-crochets-an-entire-room/It is a room made of crochet- made by the polish artist Olek and subtitled after Tracey Emin
"I do not expect to be a mother but I do expect to die alone"

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Open day at Sandys Row Synagogue

The roof has been restored- this poor place is about a yard from the City Of London boundary so Tower Hamlets is officially it's location. This gorgeous little place, home to the dutch jews originally, gets very little help from the local authority. Jeremy Freedman showed us round on this open day- his forefathers worshipped here and he spends a lot of his time here, keeping the tradition alive    http://www.sandysrow.org.uk/

Flying the flag

hand sewing - more to come we hope

Family Bangla Craft and Textiles Workshop :: Rich Mix

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Welcome to Sandys Row Synagogue - London's Oldest Ashkenazi Synagogue

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‘We’d rather side with the bankers than some vegan protester twit on benefits’, say Gilbert and George - Visual Arts - Arts - Evening Standard

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Ornish Spectrum Introduction

Ornish Spectrum Introduction

I will never give up... but reading/watching/thinking instead of doing

Meshwi Restaurant

these hand painted robins decorate the walls

This is the newest restaurant in Bethnal Green Road and is owned by a friend of ours. Taizul aims for it to rival the famous Tayab sin Whitechapel and so we decided to try the lamb chops which were as delicious as Tayabs. The restaurant seats 90 and the food was brilliant. Someone also recommended Bunda Khan in Commercial street for their lamb dishes - so at Easter I might well give it a go

The launch of the book 'Spitalfields Life'

Even royalty attended- pearly queen of Upton park no less

spitalfields life

The food stall was besieged. Eccles cakes and cheese

I am not in the habit of going to book launches.  This was a first for me so near home and it was deservedly packed for our local author.  he has faithfully kept his blog daily for two years- it is beautifully written and wonderful descriptions of this great place where we are so lucky to live.  The doors were closed when 600 people were inside and still people were queuing to be let in as people left. Many of the people in the book are well known around here so it was especially exciting.