peace for the wickED
"Hackney WickED Art Festival will not take place in 2012"Hackney WickED, established in 2008 coinciding with the Beijing Olympics and taking place the last weekend in July since, will not be taking the...
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approaching lockdown
Preparations for final lockdown: A security guard looks out from the bridge. A razorwire-topped barrier-cum-landing stage spans the river beneath. View from Lea Navigation towpath bridge over the Old...
View ArticleLittle to celebrate
BRITISH Waterways has ceased to exist in England and Wales and in its place Canal & River Trust (CART) has at last been created to care for the waterways.read more
View ArticleSpace Hijackers should award this spieler free membership
I know its been a long day but the Five Ring Circus engages unsung volunteers who give it their all. Some achieve transcendental states of delusion. read more
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Boris does Flag Fan Dangle Thing
Perfect casting for being hoist by his own petard. It's not everybody has their own Petard. The rich fat bastards have all the fun. That's not raw talent you know. They have the breeding you see. And...
View ArticleONS - 'Not possible to quantify the overall impact of the Olympics'!
Further to the Olympicsboostsh*t report on Games Monitor the rise in GDP was declared to be 1% not 0.7%. When it announced the figures the BBC reported the ONS as saying that 'beyond the effect of...
View Article2012 - a year of challenges or opportunities?
Apparently theatre in London had a bad Olympics, although this was buried under a headline of theatre 'holding up in Olympic year' and some good news about a rise in ticket sales for the year as a...
View Articlelegacy lego
Back in 2006 the Media Centre was relocated to Hackney Wick. Its legacy languishing, in 2011 someone had the bright idea of an indoor ski resort (see In search of legacies lost).read more
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The sterile pleasure garden
A view across the Olympic ParkI visited the recently opened part of the Olympic Park on what turned out to be one of the hottest days of the year to have a look around. It took a while to take it all...
View ArticleParking the legacy
Fancy a swim at the Aquatic Centre with your kids? Need to use the car park? Better be sure in that case you’ve got cash to feed the machine because it won’t accept a card.Friends took their two...
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