Hackney

Goodbye To Hackney…

August 28, 2004, 11:36 pm

Well, I’ve now finally moved out of my Hackney flat, where I spent the last year. Before I update my geourl and start talking about my new location, I thought I’d give a round-up of my year. Tell people you’re living in Hackney and you can almost see them reel at the horror – Hackney [...]

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Hackney Shops: Food

August 2, 2004, 11:21 am

Continuing on from my previous blogs about local shops and food shopping, I’m going to do a quick roundup of the places I generally tend to buy food from locally. Firstly, there is the big Tesco by Hackney Central station. However, I don’t tend to go here very often at all. It’s about a 20 [...]

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Hackney Shops: ÜMİT & Son

July 29, 2004, 1:59 pm

Whilst I’m still living in Hackney, I’m going to document and post photos of some of the interesting local shops and sites which I’ve discovered over the past year. First up is the most intriguing ‘ÜMİT & Son’ shop on Lower Clapton Road. The shop sells a few normal cornershop things like soft drinks and [...]

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Yesterday Was Flying Ant Day

July 18, 2004, 4:02 pm

So it was. The day of the year when loads of ants sprout wings and fly off to build a new colony. Or at least I think that’s how it works. The point is, it always seems to happen all at once on a single day of the year in the summer, usually on a [...]

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