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People are just getting real around here.
After Christmas it is always very quiet but now it should be picking up. Instead we have at least five empty shops in our shopping mall that passes for the market.
Here we have no greengrocer, no bakery,no butcher no fresh fish and if it was not for Tesco, no where to go for ordinary groceries. Loads of gift stores flogging bits that get caught up in the hoover, overpriced clothes and media savvy places like Leon posturing as wholesome. Their display of a glass milk bottle on the counter, while serving Tescos 2 pint cartons.
The market seems to be getting emptier every week- except for antiques day on Thursday when real characters turn up and it is really quite fun to look around.
I have now started taking my visitors to Walthamstow or Green street to look at real markets.
I see Spitalfields Old Market is in the news as it may be resold. And that Smithfield might go the same way as Spitalfields.
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