February 2012
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December 2011
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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.”
November 2011
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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...
August 2011
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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.
July 2011
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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,...
June 2011
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Softped thanks you for not smoking.
At the ‘Dish’s’ cafe on Stoke Newington Road.
May 2011
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April 2011
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Why I have never been inside my favourite shop in...
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...
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Honey Monster rides the 149
The Honey Monster, on the 149 a couple of weeks ago. Thank you Russ Tannen for sending it in - you’ve made my day!
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Fuxing brilliant.
(Kingsland High Street, taken yesterday)
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Do you, now!
Just outside the Kingsland Centre (round the back), yesterday afternoon.
March 2011
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February 2011
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Some images from the blog in Dummy Mag →
(click the link to view the article - it’s the top three pictures)
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11th February 2011
Elderly lady in a shiny white catsuit and massive white-framed sunglasses smoking a cigarette outside the Brewery Tap, at around 7.30pm on Wednesday evening.
Man insisting on reading Katalin’s fortune in return for a light, last Sunday evening outside the Dalston Rio.
Brightly attired lady on the 149 who was in equal measures disgruntled and overweight, explaining the story of...
Pelicans and Parrots
thedalstonmovement:
A new curiosity shop that was once home to a travel agents is now a place to find for intriguing gifts. I’m really enjoying their blog at the moment.
Head to 40 Stoke Newington Road, N16 7XJ.
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November 2010
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Twitter @dalstonisweird →
Crikey, 993 followers! :O
Help me get to 1000 and I’ll love you forever ;)
October 2010
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June 2010
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Recent sightings by followers of @dalstonisweird...
@dml_82 @dalstonisweird cycling back in the rain on tuesday near the canal i overtake fellow cyclist carrying ice hockey stick - on a pink unicycle
@alec_hill @dalstonisweird Peggy Patch woman wheeling 3 lifelike dolls round in a pram pretending they’re her babies #dalston#mentalist
@benmetz Imperial stormtrooper spotted cycling towards dalston!#backtotheeighties @dalstonisweird
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The Jilted Viscera of Ridley Road Market
Ridley Road Market is a notoriously perilous terrain to negotiate without finding oneself drowning in a sea of market stall excrement, slipping on a decaying piece of exotic fruit or sinking into a vat of discarded pigfoot. Regarded by most Dalston residents as a local treasure, it is best avoided if of a nervous disposition, have ever feared being attacked by an African cucumber, or are averse to...
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3rd June 2010
Awaiting the no. 30 bus at the stop on Balls Pond Road closest to Dalston Junction I was joined by a tracksuited lady who, in the manner of a stereotypical policeman, enquired, ”Allo allo allo, what’s goin’ on ‘ere, then?”
“I’m not sure what you mean”, I replied.
Winking, she commented, “That makes two of us then, luv…”
With...
May 2010
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Weird Dalston Retweets
Here’s a selection of other people’s weird Dalston observations, which I retweeted on Twitter. Follow @dalstonisweird for more.
RT @OxfamDalston No other way to say this…high-quality gimp suit, £60. http://twitpic.com/1lrnsj
RT @brittneybean Just had a non-drug related meeting scheduled in a hydroponics shop in Dalston. Ah-mazing.
RT @Laffers People watching in Dalston....
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20th May 2010
The chaps at The Alibi were surprised when an otherwise unremarkable young man attempted to leave with several rolls of cheap toilet paper stuffed under his jacket, and last night a brief stop in the supermarket closest to Palatine Road was made far more interesting by a somewhat inebriated Rastafarian man who declared the shop’s produce ‘forbidden fruit’ and sang a song about...
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April 2010
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22nd April 2010
Shouty tramp on Balls Pond Road appropriating adjectives to passers by. Mine was ‘bluish green’.
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21st April 2010
Tramp rabbit. Spotted by Russ Hodges on the Stamford Road end of Buckingham Road.
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8th April, 2010
What a glorious April afternoon in Dalston! And to my delight, the sun appears to have unleashed a deluge of bizarre activity in our eccentric little town.
Popping into Tesco to pick up some essentials, I was lured into conversation with a lady in the milk aisle, where I was helpfully informed that the look of displeasure on my face was my body’s way of letting me know that I am intolerant...
March 2010
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Tuesday 30th March
I haven’t even left my house today and have already witnessed two old men arguing vociferously about the best way to roll up a carpet and a small child scampering along in a pair of brogues several sizes too big.
Venturing out shortly - will report back soon. Hopefully with pictures.
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Monday 22nd March 2010
Livid middle-aged woman on the 149 unleashes a torrent of abuse at great volume, directed at a confused young man looking for directions to Graham Road, who she claims is the Devil’s representative on Earth. Her reasoning is that Monday is the Lord’s day, and because he is working on the arbitrary Sabbath held sacred by her sect of Christianity, it logically follows that he is...
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19th March 2010
Drunken man with cane, tap dancing merrily next to the bench opposite Basic Looks.
(spotted by De Nardi)
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Friday 19th March 2010
Booty dancing lady at the back of the Irn Bru grocery shop on Kingsland Road, near Dalston Junction.
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15th March 2010
Man in neon green shorts and earmuffs, shouting ‘Selecta!’ at 243 bus, at the Stoke Newington Road end of Kingsland High St.
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3rd March 2010
Dalston has been rather quiet on the weird front, lately. However, this afternoon, two of our delightful and somewhat overdressed residents more than made up for the lull in entertaining and baffling behaviour by following me around the aisles in the convenience store on the Dalston Junction end of Balls Pond Road, singing in harmony about the Lord.
February 2010
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10 February 2010
Representatives from am arbitrary African branch of Christianity, outside Dalston Kingsland Station. Lost in their own world, singing their little hearts out to “Morning Has Broken”. At 4pm.
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05 February 2010
Bearded man outside AK Butchers, pretending to be blind. Wearing dark glasses and carrying a white cane, when he realised I’d noticed he was staring at women’s bottoms over the top of his shades, he winked at me.
Large, disgruntled-seeming lady weaving through the crowd outside Dalston Kingsland station, pushing a yam in a pram.
Man who tapped me on the forearm and mumbled,...
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October 14 2009
Angry lady pelting tricycle-mounted child with what appeared to be miniature Cornish pasties.
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