Disco Loco!

We went to what is possibly the most awesome and crazy and cool and totally brilliant idea ever ever ever over the weekend...

Disco Loco - the rave for folks with kids...

The giant light up pink heart at the back of the Bethnal Green Working Men's Club stage was adored, the balloons jumped on, the disco backdrop shredded and made into necklaces, the hulahoops were hooped, the food was guzzled (there was even take away curry so you didn't have to cook supper when you get home!), the lights were dark and disco-y, the music was loud and the moves on the dancefloor were nothing but spectacular.  Juice for the kids and beer for the mummies and daddies - all at 3pm on a Sunday afternoon.

Quite simply, awesome.

www.discoloco.org

Travelling in Style!

These guys sure know how to travel in style!

Pets Pyjamas

Thank you very much to the Pets Pyjamas gang for featuring us in their magazine feature Behind the Brand. 

Their site is a fantastic resource for pet owners and I was delighted to add my two favourite dog friendly locations to their files - The Anchor in Walberswick, Suffolk and The Pavilion Cafe in Victoria Park, East London.

To read the feature, go to:

http://blog.petspyjamas.com/creature-clothes-interview/

Birthday Roses

I've tried cutting off 2 inches, dunking in boiling water, cutting up the stems and simply cutting off fresh angled ends, but nothing seems to work on my doomed droopy headed roses.  

So I now enjoy them while they last, and when the tops of the necks give in, I chop them off and put them in an old butter dish to dry and look beautiful for a little longer.  Then we make cards and pictures out of the pettles!

Gluey fingers - yes.  Green fingered - no.

Follow Your Art

I went to a fantastic event last night - Follow Your Art - an auction and exhibition in aid of Anti-Slavery International, held at the spectacularly cool Village Underground in Shoreditch.

The space was epic, the works awesome, the people passionate.

Southeby's Lord Harry Dalmeny took his first trip "Out East" to preside over a highly entertaining and fantastically lucrative auction and had the whole room laughing and bidding and laughing and bidding some more, waving our glow stick auction paddles in the air.

I was stunned by Olek's crocheted tribute to Martin Luther King running along the pavement of Great Eastern Street.

A great night, with thousands raised for Anti Slavery International.  I sadly came home empty handed, but then we are very lucky in getting to see work by many of the artists involved on our walk to school each morning.  I love the East End.