please empty your brain below

Ah boo! I would have popped along for at least two of those events...
As chairman of the Fish Island Narrow Gauge Society I would like to make it clear that due to overwhelming demand all tickets to our Model Railway demonstration are now sold out.
none of the links are working.
A mosque named "Holy Cross", unlikely and they would not have a choir.
As for East End narrow boat trips, that may be possible as I recall an item in the news last week that there are boat trips through the Olympic park again.
As for dg's post, whilst it is amusing and interesting, he is, to use and East End expression, telling us some porky pies.
Mmmm.... Zeitgeistastic!
For the Stepney picture house, the closest match is the Genesis cinema on Stepney Green. An ex ABC cinema building and a fine example of cinema from the 1930's. Still open as a cinema.

Or the Troxy, Stepney, another survivor from the 1930's originally with 3,520 seats,and still open as a single auditorium, with mixed use, including films. A Grade II listed building.
Always knew you'd sell out to the consistent pressure PR firms and become a Media Partner someday ;)

On the basis of the linked articles, am really looking forward to the #E3Wow #FlightToGreenwich sponsored by Diamond Geezer and Emirates Airlines
The weather forecast is fairly good, I'm glad to see, so there should be a good turn-out.
Nice one, DG.

Now pull the other leg.
Sounds interesting, possibly too good to be true, which could be why the links don't work.

And you'd never get a Mosque called Holy Cross. Holy Crescent, maybe.
He could've saved it for April 1st...
Now, now DG. What has a certain London centred website ever done to you?
dg,

Good article. Won't be surprised if this festival will actually exist in the next few years.
Anon - Ha! I'm still boycotting some other London centred website due to some piss poor attempt at a joke about northerners putting milk in Lapsang Souchong about six years ago. Well apart from Geofftech's videos anyway.
See you there!
What I "really" looking forward to is the community concert sponsored by local estate agents. With the constant flyers I get telling me how many "potential" buyers they have for my dwelling it will not be a problem advertising said event.
Which website and what's wrong with putting milk in Lapsang Souchong?
I always do and I'm not even English, let alone northerner.
Greg - the one ending with "ist". And yes, there's nothing wrong with putting milk in if you want. The gist of their "joke" was that all Northerners are uncultured idiots who would put milk in their Lapsang Souchong tea.

Wrong on so many levels.
I'm expecting the next bunch of dissected 'invitations to be a media partner' along in a couple of weeks, then....
After my initial shock that you'd agreed to be a media partner, you completely got me, especially as I glanced at the sidebar and saw it was listed in your weekend events section!

I hadn't even picked up on the Holy Cross Mosque choir, though I did do a double take! Brilliant!
I more or less gave up on Lxxxxxist when their website was "upgraded" from "grim but functional" to "pretty but disfunctional".

Please, content over form, any day.
From the second paragraph I was thinking 'please, let this be a joke.'
Phew.
But my goodness, the trouble, the detail, that went into crafting it. Only the context belies its vacuous verisimilitude.
Yes, the reference to being a media partner gave it away too early.

On another note:
http://www.theeastender.net/mile-end-and-bow-festival/
Can you give any hint, please, as to whether Mary Portas might be there as a 'local celebrity' at any of the events?
She's someone I'd love to meet
Methinks a four-pack from ye olde "Corner Shop" (see DG post x date)would cap the visit!
This is magnificent satire, so much so that it took me a while to realise that it wasn't real. Thoughts like "DG signing up to me a media partner after all those rants?" and "if this is supposed to be good publicity, it's a bit pointed"! It's so good that I bet someone will turn up! Well done!!!!!!!
I mean, come on, who would hold a candlelit procession at 7pm in August?

And it was downhill from there...
"locally sourced meat" - now that really did make me shudder at the thought... I am aching for a press release that refers to being an "indifferent" sponsor/partner etc. Holy Cross Mosque is ripe for plagiarism, excellent work DG.
I did actually come across a torchlit guided tour at 7pm in a Tyrolean village last August. (They do them all year round for the children, although the torches are only raelly necessary in the winter sports season)
Andrew,

umm... "thanks" ??!?

Geoff.










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