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...