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Sounds like I saw more people walking over Kinder Scout in the Peak District, yesterday.

Oh, not sure about the sudden appearance of an ad at the top of the page - have Blogger sprung this on you?

dg writes: Advert? I see no advert.

Your weekend posts are interesting, if only because they make me insanely jealous of all the good things you get to do in London, whilst I am stuck in this depressing and dreary backwater, where it also seems to rain incessantly, but where I am denied both a cultural existence and good beer to make up for it. However, I rarely comment because there seems to be little to comment on, unless one has been to the same event. Posts that seem to garner the most comments are those that are critical, satirical, witty or political, or engage with an issue that either affects many people or that many people have an opinion on.

I also sat watching the rain through my windows yesterday while listening to the heavy bass thump from the Lovebox festival, Im glad the crowds dont come this way I was thinking to myself, at least I dont have to contend with the litter that seems to go hand in hand with these things, and then a very large, very shiny, very expensive looking people carrier pulled up right outside my house, in the front window was an Offical looking "Lovebox" sticker, the very smart driver who was wearing an expensive suit and looking very nice got out and came round to the nearside, opened the sliding rear door and chucked about twenty items of litter all over the roadway,he then carefully shut the door pausing only to polish away a tiny mark on the window, he then drove away without a hint of guilt, unfortunatly he did not leave me his address so I will not be able to return the favour directly outside where he lives.

Looking at the site on my android phone, there's an ad for Emirates, which pushes the blog title down to the bottom of the screen.

I had planned to go to the Lambeth Country Fair but because of the rain I stayed indoors.

Dave: I'm not getting any ads, either viewing via PC on broadband or via my Android phone. Mystery.

Fishislandskin - ! I'd have taken the registration number and let the organisers of Lovebox know!

DG:

I too always enjoy the weekend posts, indeed over the years you have given my family and I many ideas on places to visit at the weekends.

BTW - having been on a semi regular trip down the part of the Lea you mention last week I tend to agree with both you and the inimitable Mr Sinclair, although there is still lots of fringe activity round the parks periphary, last weeks walk took us past a banging Rave (bringingback Hackney Wick memories of my own from 22 years ago) and a pop up art installation (Folly for a Flyover).

So, still "loving you work" sir...

CF

PS - blinking stupid name for the Lesney factory development, youd hope they would at least pay some homage to a site that formed part of so many childhoods, so glad my son saw it before demolition and knows the provenance of some of his older "hand me down" toys!

CF

My weekend was spent in a not dissimilar fashion, DG: going to see Harry Potter (though in 2D ... may revisit for the 3D); sighing over the state of current residential construction (am looking for a new place to live); and dodging raindrops.

And yet your weekend still sounds way more interesting than mine. Perhaps it's the sheep. Or the mud.

Aha. Our Jacob ewe (from Stepney City Farm)won 2nd prize in her class at Lambeth. Yes it was second out of two but it was her first show. Now realise it must have been nerves at being in her favourite blogger's presence.

I love these particular posts most of all I think DG; it's nice just reading about an experience that I'll never have, rather than thinking I should do something about taking part. And quite often it'll lead to me going next year and having a fantastic time. But yes, little to comment on other than to say 'thanks for taking the trouble to write all these things up for us'.

Echoing what Antipodean said, only without the rain in my particular "dreary and depressing backwater"!
General posts like this remind me that there is always something to do in London, even if the rain sometimes puts a damper on it.

Re Hackney Wick - yes, it's a shame legoland developments go up (the block of flats sounds like one). But Hackney Wick in the 1970s was a depressing area: desolate, fly-blown, soulless, god-forsaken (in the sense that there seemed no positive enthusing spirit there). I didn't live there, and have to admit I only went there twice - it was enough!

There's a good article on changing East London today in The Observer, page 32 of the main bit, "In Focus".

I love the Lambeth County Fair - where else can you get jousting, sheep, dubstep (or whatever the hip music du jour was) and helicopter rides in the same place, as I experienced a few years ago. And Tim Westwood - DJ, idiot and son of the Bishop of Peterborough - getting shot in an altercation in Kennington on the way back from the Country Fair was the most South London moment ever.

I take the view that it's your blog so you can write what you damn well please!
As others have said - less comments doesn't mean that the subject matter is any less interesting....











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