The sun is shining...

...and I'm jetting off for a week of hopefully even more sunshine. In my absence, I leave you with Hoxton hipsters, I wonder if you'll be as disappointed as I was when I reached the end of the posts, I never wanted it to end. 

I've just had a lunchtime walk around Spitalfields and I have seen pasty, skinny men in teeny weeny shorts, girls with pink hair and ironic t-shirts, lots of BIG hair and truly tiny skirts. The sunshine brings out the best of the British.

Have a lovely weekend.

Ready, set, GOAT!

East London went all countrified on Sunday in the inaugural Oxford Vs Cambridge Goat Race. It was timed to coincide with the boat race, so while the reporters were giving pre-race coverage of the teams on the river bank, we were treated to pre-race feeds and bleats inside the city farm's enclosure. 

It was a wonderfully surreal afternoon, with the feisty and somewhat vertically challenged Cambridge working the crowds and the serene and remarkably clean Oxford patiently eating with a sock puppet sat on his back. I told you it was surreal. 

The event's logo was designed by Cookie, and I presume the sock puppet jockeys were the handicraft of his girlfriend, Nicky Gibson. 

More photos and the winner revealed on my Flickr.