Spitalfields What's On Guide

Spitalfields What's On Guide

Mary with her Alaskan boyfriend

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An Old fashioned pub

We had our first round match of our team 'The Flutterers' tonight. We won!

I love this pub it's nickname is 'The Scrubby'

We had the best chips I have tasted for a long time and some lovely sandwiches

At The Dance

Every month in the summer our superb market manager Ray Dervin puts on a tea dance with a sizable band. Hundreds come of all ages and nationalities and these two are brilliant dancers! Very stylish.
The lady below visited us for the first time. She was impressed with the goings on around here!

George.M.Cohan Tonight

The 22nd September was the opening night of this one man show created by our friend Edmund Sutton.

It traced very movingly the story of this great impresario and vaudeville artist. We enjoyed it tremendously and were proud to have played a small part in bringing the show to the theatre.

Here is one enthusiastic supporter on the red carpet

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Near the Olympic Park

The new bridge was declared open - and the reception in the pub by the Bridge was very impressive- the best breakfasts served to a mixture of local people, mainly elders, and Olympic Delivery officers

Sadly the engineer who designed the bridge died this year and did not live to see it finished.

Visiting a grand house

As a part of Una's programme of visits from her allotment group we coached to this fantastic interesting place.

Entrance is about £12 but you can buy membership of English Heritage and get the visit free!

Tashi Lhunpo monks

This was a performance of the liturgy of the monks. It was a beautiful setting but very badly staged with too low a dais

Valuation Day

These were the experts who valued any item brought to them for FREE.

Ann and I discovered that our goodies were worthless- no real surprise there.

They hope to have another valuation day near Christmas!

Prince Charles Cinema

Saw this at Prince Charles in Leicester Square- a great place and near our favourite cheap Chinese Hing Loom in Lisle street. You can eat very well here for a fiver.

We saw this brilliant film as part of a vodka promotion- another freebie- the packed audience were, like us, moved to tears by it but this is so much better than schmaltzy- it is hilarious in parts.

With two double vodkas the walk to the bus stop as the rain poured down and the train strike started did not seem at all bad.

It is a wonderful life - just some of the time

Times plus offer

We are members of the Times Plus. For £24 a month you get web access to the Times plus vouchers for a daily paper to swap at the newsagents.

For this as well they do dish out loads of freebies and this was free tickets for the film 'The Switch'

It's a pretty superficial film but a great leading man. Set in New York it brought back very happy memories of the city- the best part of it all for me

The new galleries

The Museum has been brought up to date with new galleries. It is superb.
It is strange but with all the wonderful films, items and paintings on display it is words that stay with me and express most clearly my love of London

A Vistor from Washington

Just here for a short while!

Miltinho Edilberto

Miltinho is a superb musician and performer. He was one of the highlights of the 'world music' season at St Ethels.

£12 to get in but worth every penny. Its a small intimate space and superbly hosted by Wallee

Salsa class for the over fifties

Here are some people from our wonderful salsa class at Whitechapel. At £2 for any number of classes for the over fifties and free refreshments you cannot go wrong. The instructor is at the bottom- her name is Carmen and just being in her company is uplifting

The Mosque open its doors.

The pictures show the dome in the main prayer hall and one of the viewing galleries.

We met some lovely people and had a great welcome- as I am sure you would expect at this open afternoon- BUT as our host stressed the mercy of Allah I was just thinking of the poor young woman facing being stoned to death in Iran. And his talk of tolerance of other religions is just not true. This was my second visit to the Mosque- many years ago I visited- I was struck how functional and plain it was inside.

New Ice Cream Parlour on Brick Lane

This is our new shop- its towards the Aldgate end of Brick Lane- on the side opposite the mosque and school.

We went back there today for their delicious, generous portion size ice cream. It's about £1.50 for a huge scoop and they sell milk shakes and indian sweets.

Needless to say when we returned the lovely chairs seen here outside the shop had been taken inside- Tower Hamlets Council had banned them from the pavement- they now have to apply for a licence which will cost money. I knew this was too good to be true- to be able to sit outside for such a small cost was too much for the council to bear

Toy Story 3

You just have to see this. Not schmaltzy- but intelligent and sensitive. Brilliant!