Everyone in Dalston is Weird.

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Overheard…

“My daughter just got back from a trip to Vietnam, Cambodia and Slough.”

“Do you mean Laos?”

“No, I think it was Slough.”



*sigh*

*sigh*

(Source: viceuk)



Pig. In a bag.

Good evening Dalston! I apologise for the disappearing act - your weirdness has been perpetual; I have been a bit rubbish at documenting it. But I just remembered, my lovely friend @borissnore returned from his holiday in sunny Tobago earlier this year, only to walk straight into a man carrying an entire pig’s head in a transparent carrier bag at Dalston Kingsland Station. Of course, it simply wouldn’t do to have a pig’s head mixing with its own entrails, which is why he carried those in a separate bag.



11th August

Man at bus stop opposite Dalston Superstore dancing enthusiastically to the reggae blaring out of the bar. He’s been there for about half an hour now, having far too good a time to get on any of the eight buses that have been past.



I’ve been meaning to post these for ages - these signs can be found on the boarded up (but apparently still open) barber shop on Balls Pond Road. I’m disappointed that one of the signs states that they only give haircuts, not interviews. 

(Thanks to all the people who alerted me to these - especially @soulfoodist)



Crossway.

This morning a man on Crossway was singing ‘You put the lime in the coconut’ and doing a little shuffle whilst awaiting his bus, clutching both a lime and a coconut (as yet whole and unmixed). An extremely perplexed-looking elderly lady stroked her beard and glanced down at her small dog with one ear, and a man groomed another man’s beard using a small pot of Vaseline.

Good morning to you, Dalston!



Softped thanks you for not smoking.

At the ‘Dish’s’ cafe on Stoke Newington Road.



There appears to be a trail of these on Stoke Newington Road.

In other news, at 3pm on Hackney Road I spotted a child firmly gripping the hand of his mother, who was sucking a bright yellow dummy which perfectly matched her shoes.

There appears to be a trail of these on Stoke Newington Road.

In other news, at 3pm on Hackney Road I spotted a child firmly gripping the hand of his mother, who was sucking a bright yellow dummy which perfectly matched her shoes.



Dalston needs one of these - Manchester Unity of Oddfellows Friendly Society, Hammersmith

Dalston needs one of these - Manchester Unity of Oddfellows Friendly Society, Hammersmith



Why I have never been inside my favourite shop in Dalston.

My favourite shop in Dalston is Kilim, on Kingsland High Street, close to Dalston Junction. I walk past it almost every day and still can’t quite figure out exactly what it is that they sell. Their window display seems to contain everything from shawls to beaded artefacts defying description and plastic crucifixes (or is it crucifices?) to large feathered orbs, which lack any unifying theme aside from ambiguity of purpose.

Kilim shop in Dalston

The main reason I have never ventured inside is due to the extremely creepy sign which glares at you as you go past, aggressively inviting you in for a ‘look around’.

Kilim shop in Dalston