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Hackney Holiday: Bank holiday bands

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Monday, August 25, 2014. I have just spent the bank holiday Monday afternoon drinking in the pub. Post-kids, this is something of a rarity, but once upon a time it was almost the preferred option for wiling away the long bank holiday hours. Today I wanted to see a local band. It did make me think back to the halcyon days of bank holiday weekends at South Bedfordshire's premiere pub venue, the Wheatsheaf. The Wheatsheaf was, and is, a mainstay of the local gig scene in the region, so bank holidays were al...

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Hackney Holiday: 07/01/2014 - 08/01/2014

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Friday, July 18, 2014. De de da, de de da, de de de da, diddle-a. Six weeks summer holiday starts today and as usual, Mrs Holiday has excelled herself by preparing for the larks ahead. Both the boys have a Summer bucket of toys, books and diversions. It's one of the little traditions that she is gradually introducing to our happy band. Our two have water pistols, Top Trumps, hula hoops, a space hopper (to share - good luck with that! Friday, July 18, 2014. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Books on the loose.

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Hackney Holiday: 10/01/2013 - 11/01/2013

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Tuesday, October 22, 2013. Where now for the all day drinker? When I first lived in Hackney, my mates and I used to have a little game of dare where we would pick a pub that we considered a bit rough and see if we would risk having a pint in there. It seems quite a nostalgic thing now as I see that yet another of these hell holes has turned over a new leaf, or gone over to new management, and in the process has set its sights on new customers. Which has its own tap), Hackney Brewery. And the new Truman's.

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Hackney Holiday: 02/01/2014 - 03/01/2014

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Friday, February 07, 2014. Eighties style: it's in there somewhere. We live in a world where images have lost some of their power or allure. The fact that most of us carry a camera around with at all times means there are not many things that remain undocumented or shared. Of course it wasn't always like this (cue Hovis theme tune. That's why I like this picture, which until last night I didn't know existed. I was browsing Facebook where a band I saw quite a lot in the Eighties, The Very Things.

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Hackney Holiday: Mornings are the worst

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Saturday, November 15, 2014. Mornings are the worst. 600 am. Hmm, lie in today is it? Boys, can you keep your voices down please, it's still quite early. No that's not really a morning voice, is it. A little bit quieter. A bit more. A little bit more. I know it doesn't sound like shouting to you, but it does to mummy and me, and I don't think our neighbours really want to hear you. Well, they don't have children in the house. They're retired and they don't have to get up this early. Why did he hit you?

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Hackney Holiday: 04/01/2015 - 05/01/2015

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Thursday, April 30, 2015. This time next week it will all be kicking off. I'll have dropped my kids off at school and gone to another junior school to cast my vote - walking past the elderly party workers bonded in their duty of checking who has voted and who hasn't over a flask of tea. Where will our next coalition of chaos come from? It will be fascinating to see how the next election - whether in 2020, or a lot sooner - will be fought. In the medium term, perhaps the door will start to shift to le...

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Hackney Holiday: A black day for retail

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Friday, November 28, 2014. A black day for retail. Sign up to receiving a few emails from retailers, and the Black Friday deals on offer today won’t seem anything out of the ordinary. Barely a day goes by without receiving seemingly unrepeatable discount offers… until another arrives tomorrow. Given this background noise it’s amazing that Black Friday has gained any traction at all. However scenes of shoppers fighting. That you can sell any old tat if you slap a sale sticker on it. Books on the loose.

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Hackney Holiday: Free ice cream

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Thursday, August 07, 2014. Who wants an ice cream? It's vanilla - I've got it right here. It's free. You don't need to pay. The man took it out of his freezer. He just left it at the side of the road. There's nothing wrong with it. But there isn't any space. There's strawberry as well. Look at the swirl of red. They're filling up the freezer now. No room for ice cream. Does nobody want one? Thursday, August 07, 2014. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Terrier Photography (Not the Canine Variety).

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Hackney Holiday: 11/01/2014 - 12/01/2014

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Friday, November 28, 2014. A black day for retail. Sign up to receiving a few emails from retailers, and the Black Friday deals on offer today won’t seem anything out of the ordinary. Barely a day goes by without receiving seemingly unrepeatable discount offers… until another arrives tomorrow. Given this background noise it’s amazing that Black Friday has gained any traction at all. However scenes of shoppers fighting. That you can sell any old tat if you slap a sale sticker on it. Mornings are the worst.

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Hackney Holiday: Referendum

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Thursday, September 18, 2014. There have been a lot of wise words written from both sides of the Referendum debate in Scotland. I don't have anything particularly profound to add, just a few jumbled thoughts of my own. It was 1979 when I left Scotland. It was the year of Margaret Thatcher coming to power and also the year of the referendum on Scottish devolution. We did think we were different. As I grew up I was always led to believe that the Scottish education system was superior to that down South...