THE FAR EAST

IN GENERAL, WE ARE REPELLED BY GROUP ACTIVITIES AND GATHERINGS. SO TAKING THE TUBE ON A SATURDAY MORNING TO EAST LONDON DIDN'T EXACTLY EASE US INTO THE WEEKEND.

WE GOT A LITTLE NEW YORK ON THAT JOURNEY, STOMPING AROUND IN BIG BLACK BOOTS, ARMED WITH COFFEE, DESPERATE TO GET ABOVE GROUND AND ONTO MARKETS AND WANDERING.

AND FINALLY WE EMERGED TO A MOODY SKY,

HELLO EAST LONDON.

AS IF WE NEEDED FURTHER ARGUMENT TO TAKE UP RESIDENCE ON A BOAT,

HOUSEBOAT BOHEMIA HEAVEN, BONJOUR.

TYPICAL MARKET BITS, SOME CONFECTIONARY, ABOVE, 

AND A TEENY TINY LITTLE GROUPIE COAT DESTINED FOR A PINT SIZED PENNY LANE:

WE WARMED OURSELVES OVER SOME MINT TEA, AND WANDERED OVER TO THE COLUMBIA ROAD WHERE WE FELL MADLY AND DEEPLY IN THIS PLACE

WE SAW ONE OF THESE SEATS IN THE WINDOW, AND NEARLY FAINTED. VICTORIAN CHAIRS RECOVERED IN WHITE SILKSCREENED VELVET.

IS THERE ANYTHING MORE DECADENT THAN WHITE VELVET?

NO MY FRIENDS, THERE IS NOT.

AND JUST TO ROUND THINGS OFF, SOME INSANELY COOL DOGGIES CRAFTED FROM WOOL. TANNER AND LAWSON IS ALL ABOUT WHIPPETS, WHICH IS FANTASTIC BECAUSE WE'RE PRETTY SURE WE MIGHT HAVE BEEN ONE IN PAST LIFE.

GO AND VISIT THEM, THE DARLING JONATHAN WILL CHARM YOU TO PIECES.

JUST DON'T BUY OUR CHAIRS PLEASE.

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PLACES: MITTENS AND BLOSSOMS

THOUGH WE TEND TO AVOID PORTOBELLO RD ON SATURDAY LIKE A PLAGUE, (ITS BEEN DECLARED PURGATORY BY DOODLE DUE TO THE CROWDS)

BUT WE GOT A TELEGRAM FROM THE GYPSY AT THE ADMIRAL VERNON; HE CLAIMED HE HAD A SQUASH BLOSSOM TO SHOW US.

AS IN, SOME SERIOUS ANTIQUE INLAID TURQUOISE NECK CANDY.

SO WE SAUNTERED DOWN THE OLD RD AND FOUND HIM ON HIS LITTLE BOOTH:

WITH HIS SKULLS AND STUFF. AND AN EDWARDIAN ASYLUM SUIT, IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING WHAT THAT WAS. (THE NEW WEEKEND CASUAL?)

GYPSY WAS NOT LYING: HE MODELS THAT SQUASH BLOSSOM NECKLACE MILLICENT ROGERS STYLE. (IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHO THAT IS,  GO AND GOOGLE HER KEMOSABE; SHE PUT TURQUOISE ON THE MAP)

ABOVE, WHAT ARE THESE? WE WANT THEM ON OUR BODY.

WE'RE A LITTLE OUT OF FOCUS FOLKS, BUT THATS GYPSY VISION FOR YOU. BLURRED ON THE EDGES:

WEARING THE SWEETEST BUNNY FUR MITTENS, EVEN IN THE HEAT WE WERE ROMANCED, ZHIVAGO STYLE. COME THE COLD, BEADED BITS LIKE THESE WILL KEEP US WARM AT NIGHT, OF THIS WE ARE SURE.

IN THE IMMORTAL WORDS OF RICHIE TENENBAUM: FLY, MORDECAI! 
FOR SERIOUS: WHEN IN LONDON, FLY YOURSELF OVER AND UNDER THE ADMIRAL VERNON FOR SOME BEAUTIFUL GYPSY CURIOSITIES (AND TO TAKE IN SOME OF THOSE RAD TATTOOS).