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The Tamarind saw: Gainsbourg

Regardless of season, ice cream!

(Italiano) Il colore degli sceicchi. La diversità vista dagli occhi dei bambini

Sending that cash home

The Tamarind will miss: Louise Bourgeois

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March 2nd, 2010
Published in Agenda, Blog
by Hackney bird
Yesterday my house was completely, totally and utterly gutted. It took the builders about half a day. Who knew that what takes so long to put up can be torn down in a matter of seconds? I can’t say I feel particularly nostalgic. If anything my regrets are a product of what should have been, not of what has been the reality of my house over the last few months. Let me explain: on my [...]
January 15th, 2010
Published in Attualità, Columns
by Hackney bird
Now that the snow is melting away and twinkling lights no longer adorn our streets, the people outside have lost the impetus to be merry. New Years resolutions hang over our heads as we increasingly retreat into a state of denial exacerbated by the looming January 31st tax returns deadline… “£800 all in one go? But that’s so much money!!! This year I promise I’ll put aside 20% of my [...]
November 23rd, 2009
Published in Attualità, Columns
by Hackney bird
I woke up on Saturday morning dreaming of my weekly hit of Weasel turd coffee. Sadly however, I looked out the window and was confronted by a dark and tempestuous sky. Oh well, Broadway market was just going to have to wait this week. Anyway, I’m sure I’ve already given the owner of Ca Phe Zgoz, the Vietnamese coffee stall that produces the aforementioned drink, more than enough [...]
November 16th, 2009
Published in Attualità, Blog
by Hackney bird
When I was a little girl my mother used to make me go and kiss people with chicken pox so that I would get it and not run the risk of getting it in my older life and becoming infertile. Unfortunately I never did manage to contract the disease, so I suppose I’m still at risk and might ruin my chances of having lots of little kiddlywinks. I’ll probably end up having to do a Brangelina, although now [...]
October 21st, 2009
Published in Blog, Opinioni
by Hackney bird
Beginning of week three in the new flat in the lost land of East London’s Hackney Downs. It’s a bit of a retail desert out here, with little of the trendy haunts I had so gotten used to down in the southern reaches of the hood. There is, however an interesting gastro-pub just across the road, which has so far made it’s way onto my list of local eateries. The Pembury Tavern seems not to [...]