Everyone in Dalston is Weird.

I assume the Hazchem sign will come down once the building has...

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:24:00 +0000

I assume the Hazchem sign will come down once the building has seen the school nurse.

(Haggerston Road, 10.30am)

1st March 2012

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:09:00 +0000

The man sitting behind me on the 149 is emitting gutteral grunts, punctuated sporadically by the word, ‘petunia’.

25th February 2012

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:48:52 +0000

Bus party on the 38. Pink whistles and everything.

I think we have found Paris’ answer to Dalston. Everyone...

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:24:31 +0000

I think we have found Paris’ answer to Dalston. Everyone in Oberkampf is weird :)

Overheard...

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:42:13 +0000

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

“Do you mean Laos?”

“No, I think it was Slough.”

sigh

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:52:28 +0000

*sigh*

Pig. In a bag.

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:31:00 +0000

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

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:08:01 +0100

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...

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:09:56 +0100

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.

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:54:58 +0100

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.

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:39:49 +0100

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

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

Wed, 11 May 2011 00:50:12 +0100

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...

Wed, 04 May 2011 12:40:14 +0100

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

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

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:29:47 +0100

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’.

Honey Monster rides the 149

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:45:15 +0100

The Honey Monster, on the 149 a couple of weeks ago. Thank you Russ Tannen for sending it in - you’ve made my day!

Fuxing brilliant.

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:12:50 +0100

(Kingsland High Street, taken yesterday)

Do you, now!

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:05:00 +0100

Just outside the Kingsland Centre (round the back), yesterday afternoon.

Grumpy looking bird-hat man on the 277 at Dalston Junction,...

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:33:44 +0100

Grumpy looking bird-hat man on the 277 at Dalston Junction, about half an hour ago. Complete with matching Lidl bag. Spotted by Zac; picture by me.

Some images from the blog in Dummy Mag

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:05:00 +0000

Some images from the blog in Dummy Mag:

(click the link to view the article - it’s the top three pictures)

11th February 2011

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:57:01 +0000

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.