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.
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’.
The Honey Monster, on the 149 a couple of weeks ago. Thank you Russ Tannen for sending it in - you’ve made my day!
(Kingsland High Street, taken yesterday)
Just outside the Kingsland Centre (round the back), yesterday afternoon.
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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 Noah’s ark to her bemused son by shouting ‘TWO BY TWO BY TWO By TWO’ in his face until he cried.
