A Festive Feature.

This December I can be found amongst the pages of Little Thing Magazine...amusingly the only English words that feature are 'Alice' and 'Big hair'. I got to jaunt about my favourite places so that the lovely Jas Tang could write about 'A Week With Alice Gabb'. 

So here are the lovely places that have been featured:

Monday: The Vintage Emporium 

(marvellous for free Life Drawing sessions on Tuesday evenings)

Tuesday: Columbia Road Flower Market

(which is on Sundays, although Late Night Christmas Wednesdays have begun)

Food: Brawn - Printers and Stationers

Shopping: J and B - Choosing Keeping

Wednesday: Regents Canal

(My favourite walks are Warwick Avenue to Angel, or Whitmore Bridge to Hackney Wick)

Thursday: The Shop, Cheshire Street

(extremely affordable vintage textiles)

Friday: Towpath Cafe

Saturday: Broadway Market

All clothes worn are from Beyond Retro, Rokit, Old Spitalfields, Urban Outfitters Renewal or The Shop (I'm a creature of habit....)

Christmas Frolics at Columbia Road.

Jessie Chorley and Buddug

Rob Ryan

Wednesday saw the first of this year's late night shopping events at Columbia Road. As a relative local, I visit frequently on a Sunday for the stunning flower market, but this was really rather something lovely. With stylishly simple Christmas lights, children playing carols on their trumpets, and not a queue or crowd in sight, it was a perfect way to start getting into the festive mood. If you have visited the street before, you will be familiar with the very limited weekend only opening hours of the shops there, but every Wednesday until Christmas they will be opening 5pm-9pm for Christmas shoppers.

After exploring the shops, we sat in the cobbled courtyard and drank mulled cider, ate mince pies and listened to the lovely band below whilst little children danced around. It was a lovely sight, with some very amusing interpretive dance going on. For more information, click here.