Author: Wansteadium

Wanstead news roundup, 24,08.10; Artists, white lines, and TV

• The full list of artists participating in the Wanstead Art Trail – a fantastically enlightened bid to give Wanstead artistic buzz (rather like the regeneration-inducing Folkestone Triennial) – has been published by the Wanstead Society. It shows 63 venues in Wanstead which will be showing works by more than 130 artists, both professional and amateur. It will take place between 19 and 26 September and more details, including the full map, can be found at the Wanstead Society website.

• Rumours that the Metropolitan Police had started marking out the part of Wanstead Flats where they want to site their Olympic operational headquarters were scotched when it turned out the lines had been painted by the Showman’s Guild for the Wanstead Flats Fair. Opposition to the Met’s proposal is increasing in volume; the force is making its case online.

• Meanwhile, on Tuesday night, the decision will be made about the Arcelor Orbit sculpture, which, in June, Wansteadium revealed risks interfering with the Freeview TV signals of people living in Snaresbrook.Details here. It now appears that if there did turn out to be a significant effect, the Olympic Delivery Authority would be required to pay for corrective measures, though it’s not clear what this could be.

Choice tweets about Wanstead, XIX: The truth about holidays

Drove hundreds of miles in France to camp somewhere not quite as nice as Wanstead Park round the corner!less than a minute ago via txtRoger Estop
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Wanstead bookshop needs staff (no pay but good for conscience)

With just about a month until the opening of the Oxfam bookshop in Wanstead High Street, the builders are in the former travel shop getting things ready. Other retailers seem happy at the news, with one expressing relief that predictions of a Costa Coffee or a Subway didn’t happen.

Oxfam area manager Mark Appiah told Wansteadium he was “really pleased the community in Wanstead is so enthusiastic about the bookshop” and asked anyone interested in volunteering in the shop to get in touch.

Choice tweets about Wanstead; Never mind the deluge, feel the quality

Another cloud burst in Wanstead, http://yfrog.com/1sxtuejless than a minute ago via Twitter for iPhoneYenwod Samoth
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No one told me Wanstead was nice. Looks it from inside the 66 anyway. I shall returnless than a minute ago via TweetDeckBen Reynolds
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Walking around Wanstead in awe of the houses. I could happily live around here.less than a minute ago via EchofonEmma Barratt
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A glimpse inside Wanstead’s veterinary hospital (squeamish beware)

Most Wanstead residents have probably driven past the veterinary hospital on New Wanstead hundreds of times on their way from Green Man roundabout. But even pet-owners will only have been in there on the rarest of occasion. Now blogger and student vet Stefan has told us more than we need to know about life inside. (Seriously, if you are squeamish or eating something, do something else right now.)

On his blog, he writes:

I was able to watch Johan do a full spay on Candy. A Pyometra is when the uterus is infected with pus. This raises the dogs temperature and has the capability to explode inside the dog, filling it completely with pus and the dog could end up dying from septacaemia. It was very very unhealthy looking, panting and uncomfortable with a putrid smelling discharge. I had to wear a hat and a mask and scrubs because the hospital was a bit more sterilised, but the surgery was once again, fascinating. He cut the stomach cleanly, ligated the blood vessels and just lifted out the uterus gently. He had to lift it away from the abdominal cavity just incase it burst.

That’s more than enough, though if you are for some reason wanting to know more, there is some on his blog, along with pictures too. Don’t say you weren’t warned. Sorry if you’re disturbed by it, bu it is all part of Wanstead’s rich tapestry etc etc.