Kerstin’s Newsletter
Travel, food, interiors, gardens, grandma-core, radical feminism, London, some politics
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Colour Walk, High Maintenance, Felix Topolski and authentic London boozers (opens the original)
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Colour WalkI met this blogger on a press trip a few years ago. She was colourfully dressed with multi-hued hair. On the train her hands were never still, she was sewing something. She told me about Colour Walk, which happens at Spitalfields Market every third Thursday of the month at 1pm. Five years later I finally get there. It is a riot of colour. A select few are actually well dressed as well as colourful. Someone whispered: “I call it fifty shades of clown”. Most participants are older women
Hackney Wick and Stratford, Bowie, V & A, Pressure, The Children, Tim Curry and Generation Jones (opens the original)
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I used to hang out in Hackney 20 years ago. It’s changed so much. Broadway Market wasn’t a hipster food hangout then. I was in a relationship with a squatter who lived in the London Fields Lido - before it was refurbished. I still have some of the wire crates where people would store their clothes and shoes. Everyone had their own room in an ex-changing booth. The man I was with was very organised, with neatly chopped logs stacked outside, to feed his gas bottle wood burner. (He had an advantage
My new favourite restaurant, The Rest is Real Housewives, goodie bags and Christmas press do’s (opens the original)
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All day astrology/kundalini workshop and supper club 19th September (opens the original)
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Book now for the workshopA few weeks ago I hosted an astrology/Kundalini yoga workshop at my house with myself providing a seasonal lunch. It was a great success, so we are doing it again, this time entitled ‘Venus Rising’ featuring astroids Penelope and Odysseus. This is the last week of the early bird price - a bargainous £160 - before it goes up to £2
More Kentwell: A Living History Family Tree: Pickles, Jumbles, and the Meta-World of 1553 (opens the original)
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