Who’s this amiable fellow? It’s a half-sheep, half-goat from Spitalfields City Farm, which is hosting a Sheep and Wool Fayre on Sunday 8 June. I can be blasé about this kind of rural jiggery-pokery because I’ve seen it tons of times before, while I was growing up. One of my friends at primary school lived on a farm and used to help with the milking before school. Which is a 6am start, folks. Ouch. Still, who better than an 8 year old who will be waking up at that time anyway? Hm.

I like my faux-rural pursuits more on the gentle, consumerist, twee side – jumble sales, coffee mornings, that sort of thing. There was a super Christmas craft fayre at Toynbee Hall year before last which I only found because there was a note in biro stuck on the wall outside.

Anyway. Spitalfields City Farm is joyous, not just because it’s well, a *farm* in the *city* (the world’s gone topsy turvy!!) but because it is just a few steps away from the vintage slouch-boot trodden paths of Brick Lane, land of the trendy. Unlike the city farms in Beckton and Mudchute where you are dropped off by the DLR in places that look a bit like a budget version of the countryside, but which are actually huge parks, Spitalfields and Hackney farms are tucked away down side streets. I love being able to emerge again from such a street into the Sunday lunchtime throng with an air of superiority that doesn’t say ‘I’m so rocking my Lazy Oaf t-shirt today’ as much as ‘I’ve just been hanging out with a tiny pony. oh yeah.’

Also apologies for the lack of posts recently! Have now moved house, which I’m very happy about, but still lacking internet. Plus I’ve been off work so there have been no lunchtime cyberjaunts either. Back in tomorrow though so hopefully things will regularize. Thanks for sticking with me!