This is rather moving: people of the past loving their dogs, via @thegentleauthor.bsky.social spitalfieldslife.com/2025/09/26/l...

I like seeing so many terriers and terrier mixes represented in the photographs. This one looks so much like our own dog — Charlie/Charles/Chazza, or Bogdan (his middle name) when misbehaving — that it’s quite uncanny. Surely an ancestor.

“Sometimes in London, I wake late in the night and hear a dog calling out to me on the wind, in the dark silent city of my dreaming.” @thegentleauthor.bsky.social spitalfieldslife.com/2025/09/26/l...

spitalfieldslife.com/2025/09/25/t... how amazing - could it not be in safe public view? @thegentleauthor.bsky.social

Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social The Spitalfields Bowl spitalfieldslife.com/2025/09/25/t...

Join us at the launch of TESSA HUNKIN'S HACKNEY MOSAIC BOOK this Saturday 27th September 2-5pm in the pavilion on Hackney Downs, E5. Please register to attend by emailing [email protected] as numbers are limited.

Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social Suresh Singh’s Tank Top spitalfieldslife.com/2025/09/24/s...

Join us at the launch of TESSA HUNKIN'S HACKNEY MOSAIC BOOK this Saturday 27th September 2-5pm in the pavilion on Hackney Downs, E5. Please register to attend by emailing [email protected] as numbers are limited.

“He was a Rag Merchant, whereas I am a Textile Consultant. I understand textiles, I know about suitings and have been dealing in them since 1946. Our different specialities complemented each other.” @thegentleauthor.bsky.social spitalfieldslife.com/2025/09/23/m...

spitalfieldslife.com/2025/09/23/m... fascinating @thegentleauthor.bsky.social

Awaiting Tessa Hunkin, who is coming to sign orders of her Hackney Mosaic Project book in advance of publication. To join us at the launch this Saturday afternoon at the mosaic workshop in the pavilion on Hackney Downs, please email [email protected]

Join us at the launch of TESSA HUNKIN'S HACKNEY MOSAIC BOOK next Saturday 27th September 2-5pm in the pavilion on Hackney Downs, E5. Please register to attend by emailing [email protected] as numbers are limited.

spitalfieldslife.com/2025/09/22/p... a powerful reminder @thegentleauthor.bsky.social

Artichokes and chrysanthemums from Columbia Road Market this morning

Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social So Long, Jil Cove (photo by Phil Maxwell) spitalfieldslife.com/2025/09/15/s...

Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social George Cossington, Steeplejack spitalfieldslife.com/2025/09/20/g...

Join us at the launch of TESSA HUNKIN'S HACKNEY MOSAIC BOOK next Saturday 27th September 2-5pm in the pavilion on Hackney Downs, E5. Please register to attend by emailing [email protected] as numbers are limited.

Walter Donohue is teaching a two day screenwriting course in Spitalfields on 8th & 9th November: spitalfieldslife.com/2025/09/08/t...

Join us at the launch for Tessa Hunkin’s Hackney Mosaic Project book from 2-5pm at the mosaic workshop in the Pavilion on Hackney Downs, Downs Park Rd, Lower Clapton, E5 8NP. Please register to attend by emailing [email protected] as numbers are limited at the Pavilion.

spitalfieldslife.com/2025/09/15/s... What a woman ; what a life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social

Walter is the real deal; I knew him in the early days of Film4 and he brings a unique eye to understanding the art and craft of screenwriting. It is an overview developed by doing and making (with some amazing filmmakers) not theory.

It's my birthday month so I thought I would put up these cards I received a few years back...

Thank you David Hoffman for signing more copies of your book Endurance & Joy (on sale now in our online shop) and also for this wonderfully fragrant homegrown basil from your garden... spitalfieldslife.bigcartel.com

Luminary of British Cinema and Editor of Faber Film books, Walter Donohue is teaching a 2 day screenwriting course in Spitalfields on 8th & 9th November: spitalfieldslife.com/2025/09/08/t...

Greengages and damsons in the London Fields School Playground Market this morning

Ghastly facadism alert on the corner of Wilson Street and Earl Street at the rear of Liverpool Street Station. #thecreepingplagueofghastlyfacadism

Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of culture and history at the heart of old London followed by tea and cakes freshly baked from a recipe of 1720 served in a 300 year old house. thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking

This Saturday 6th September, join me for a ramble through 2000 years of culture and history at the heart of old London followed by tea and cakes freshly baked from a recipe of 1720 served in a 300 year old house. thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking

spitalfieldslife.com/2025/09/03/p... @thegentleauthor.bsky.social

Ordered and looking forward now.

Preorder and we will post you a copy signed by Tessa Hunkin at the end of September. We are including a complimentary copy of 'A Hoxton Childhood' (cover price £20) with all preorders to UK addresses. spitalfieldslife.bigcartel.com/product/tess...

Striped dahlias from Columbia Road Market this morning

Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of culture and history at the heart of old London followed by tea and cakes freshly baked from a recipe of 1720 served in a 300 year old house. thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking

Sarah Ainslie’s Somali Portraits. Introduced by @thegentleauthor.bsky.social: "Contributing Photographer Sarah Ainslie undertook this fine series of Somali portraits, accompanied with eloquent testimonies dictated by her subjects." spitalfieldslife.com/2025/08/31/s...

Plums and greengages from Perry Court Farm at London Fields School Playground Market this morning

Preorder and we will post you a copy signed by Tessa Hunkin at the end of September. We are including a complimentary copy of 'A Hoxton Childhood' (cover price £20) with all preorders to UK addresses. spitalfieldslife.bigcartel.com/product/tess...

Booking now through September & October. Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of culture and history at the heart of old London followed by tea and cakes freshly baked from a recipe of 1720 served in a 300 year old house. www.thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking

Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social The Loneliness Of Schrodinger spitalfieldslife.com/2025/08/27/t...

Preorder and we will post you a copy signed by Tessa Hunkin at the end of September. We are including a complimentary copy of 'A Hoxton Childhood' (cover price £20) with all preorders to UK addresses. spitalfieldslife.bigcartel.com/product/tess...

#WindowForToday (one of my favorite windows) Suresh Singh and his wife Jagir at 38 Princelet St (Photograph by Patricia Niven) Book details from @thegentleauthor.bsky.social or #SpitalfieldsLife

“Suresh Singh tells the story of his family who lived in their house in Princelet St for seventy years, longer than any other family in Spitalfields.” I have a copy of A Modest Living. This is such a beautiful book. Buy it! spitalfieldslife.com/2025/08/26/a... @thegentleauthor.bsky.social

TICKETS AVAILABLE SATURDAY 30TH AUGUST. Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of culture and history at the heart of old London followed by tea and cakes served in a 300-year-old house overlooking Christ Church, Spitalfields. thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking

spitalfieldslife.com/2025/08/25/b... how fascinating real life can be @thegentleauthor.bsky.social

TICKETS AVAILABLE SATURDAY 30TH AUGUST. Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of culture and history at the heart of old London followed by tea and cakes served in a 300-year-old house overlooking Christ Church, Spitalfields. thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking

@thegentleauthor.bsky.social There's a word for this...

TICKETS AVAILABLE SATURDAY 30TH AUGUST. Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of culture and history at the heart of old London followed by tea and cakes served in a 300-year-old house overlooking Christ Church, Spitalfields. thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking

My 16th Annual Report is published today! spitalfieldslife.com/2025/08/22/s...

Help publication by preordering now and we will post you a signed copy at the end of September. We are including a free copy of 'A Hoxton Childhood' (cover price £20) with all preorders to UK addresses. spitalfieldslife.bigcartel.com

TICKETS AVAILABLE SATURDAY 30TH AUGUST. Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of culture and history at the heart of old London followed by tea and cakes served in a 300-year-old house overlooking Christ Church, Spitalfields. thegentleauthorstours.com/p/booking