Comments on: Columbia Road Market 74

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:05:29 +0000

I also ventured to Columbia Road this Sunday to buy my Christmas greenery.
Denise Burridge – a diva blessed – truly makes this market hum.
Many a Sunday morning as I walk towards the market from the Hackney Road, her tune the is one I hear first. It is often the only sound I can hear on the final stretch of my walk.

Merry Christmas and goodwill to you all!

By: joan

joan — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:32:41 +0000

We got our tree from Columbia Road yesterday. And of course we did that classic thing of buying one so fat that my 6ft 4 ” partner (fast approaching 50) had to accept that we weren’t going to make it to the car. My daughter and I stood rather self consciously on Ravenscroft Street while he went to fetch the car (just big enough with the back seats folded down) from the other side of the Hackney Road. I suggested we sing carols while we wait, which got the sort of eye-rolling response that girls aged 10 going on 15 can do so well. I’m sure that this is a very recognisable scenario to many. We then had that other family ritual of constructing a Jenga style base for the tree out of old bits of wood from the garden shed. I like the idea that people all over the country and beyond were doing something similar.

What I really like is that our house now smells of pine rather than teenage boys. It’s only our second year with a real tree and while I miss the inevitable family row that would accompany assembling the B&Q plastic one (section E doesn’t go there!) it is rather lovely.

Best wishes,

Joan

By: Ros

Ros — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:34:50 +0000

How nice to be taken down Columbia Road again and to smell the smells, see the sights and meet the stallholders this Sunday. Lovely piece and photographs.