Comments on: At Vout-O-Reenee’s https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/15/at-vout-o-renees/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 19 Dec 2014 13:10:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Wilma Johnson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/15/at-vout-o-renees/#comment-699489 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 13:10:28 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=125106#comment-699489 Yes a most lovely and surreal place for a beer – and Sophie’s not kidding that your never too old or untrendy – my mum is 89 she often stops by for an Old Fashioned and I have been let in wearing some very dodgy footwear. My painting in the toilet I think was a self-portrait originally, but seems to have changed into a portrait of Sophie since I painted it in 1982, this is the sort of thing that can happen in Vouts….

]]> By: GJM https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/15/at-vout-o-renees/#comment-695602 Wed, 17 Dec 2014 15:41:56 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=125106#comment-695602 I do not really understand these photos — I have looked at them for some time, but do not really understand them — what is being shown here, and is it normal for English people to consume alcoholic drinks in a church with their family and friends ? Or is it some kind of English art ?

Can other readers help ?

Thank you for your blog page.

]]> By: milo Bell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/15/at-vout-o-renees/#comment-695139 Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:17:57 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=125106#comment-695139 Sounds like my kind of place. Also sounds like the kind of place Louis Vause and his band should be playing.

]]> By: joan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/15/at-vout-o-renees/#comment-694045 Tue, 16 Dec 2014 21:48:45 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=125106#comment-694045 Thank you so much Sophie. At some point I shall wend my way from E15 to E1 in all my middle aged splendidness!

]]> By: Sophie Parkin https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/15/at-vout-o-renees/#comment-693279 Tue, 16 Dec 2014 12:07:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=125106#comment-693279 Joan nobody is too old or untrendy for our club. We are neither about fashion or age; we are about feeling like the square peg in the round hole. If you’ve felt that all your life hopefully you won’t in Vouts. Please do come and see us and say hello!

]]> By: moyra peralta https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/15/at-vout-o-renees/#comment-692106 Mon, 15 Dec 2014 20:12:44 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=125106#comment-692106 A change of genre! Glad the Gentle Author’s having fun!

]]> By: Alice Neal https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/15/at-vout-o-renees/#comment-691501 Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:19:47 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=125106#comment-691501 Another set of beautiful pictures together with a lovely story. Love the toucan but particularly the homage to Dali!

]]> By: Achim https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/15/at-vout-o-renees/#comment-691252 Mon, 15 Dec 2014 09:39:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=125106#comment-691252 Very strange and surrealistic… indeed!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

]]> By: Graham Moss https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/15/at-vout-o-renees/#comment-691213 Mon, 15 Dec 2014 08:56:27 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=125106#comment-691213 The discussion of the relationship between the time you are born and when you feel lively was most interesting. I was born at 2:00 on a Sunday lunchtime, and over the years have come to favour a nap in the late afternoon; I have occasionally wondered if there was a correlation.

]]> By: joan https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/12/15/at-vout-o-renees/#comment-691171 Mon, 15 Dec 2014 08:09:12 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=125106#comment-691171 I was tempted to go here recently when Mike Westbrook’s jazz band were playing there – after seeing them at various other locations like Toynbee Hall and St Giles in the Field. I reckoned though that I was probably too old and unfashionable to fit in. I greatly enjoy the irony of the location though. My parents were married at English Martyrs and I was baptised there (we moved to Stepney soon after). My memories of the place are of the very dour Fr Scollard OMI (Oblate of Mary Immaculate) who was parish priest. He retired to Wetherby in Yorkshire and as a truculent teen we went as a family to visit him – not one of my favourite holidays!

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