Wanstead’s first frost, 2013

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13 November – Wanstead’s first frost of the season, though it came a bit unexpectedly. (We know some others take this sort of thing very seriously, but this now counts as a tradition for Wansteadium)
For sake of reference:
2012 – 6 November
2011 – 25 November
2010 – 21 October

Reader Matt Bennett writes:
Just wanted to share this picture with you. It’s Wanstead green and with the weather the way it was this morning
I felt compelled to take a picture.
No filter and everything!
Anyway the result put a massive smile on my face and made me proud to
Think I live in such a beautiful place.

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Wanstead and Snaresbrook council meeting, livetweeting thereof

Wansteadium’s exclusive livetweeting of the area 1 committee of Redbridge Borough Council, which concerns Wanstead and Snaresbrook. We say exclusive, because we don’t think there were any reporters at the meeting (though we may be wrong about that). Tweets are in chronological order, more or less.

Arrivederci Giobertis

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Wanstead Magazine Club recharged

The much celebrated Wanstead Magazine Club, which saves unloved but otherwise excellent magazines and distributes them in public places in the interests of general improvement, has had a recharge with fresh stocks of lush magazines including National Geographic, Monocle, Which?, and lots more. The current crop is in the Larder, but more will be added to our regular haunts – watch our @Wansteadium Twitter feed for details.

photo (31)Meanwhile, eyes were attracted by this seemingly new and exciting contribution: a big glossy magazine called Wanstead Life. How exciting! Until, upon reading, it turns out there is just one article about Wanstead, and that’s concerning an exhibition about Wanstead Flats, though neighbouring areas were also mentioned. (It seems this is not to be confused with the similarly named West Essex Life.)

Pub update… Pubpdate.

Wanstead MP John Cryer has this week proposed a motion in the House of Commons lamenting the decision to auction celebrated Soho pub the Gay Hussar.

Meanwhile, a bit closer to home, there has been continued debate about what is to become of the Duke of Edinburgh pub at the top (bottom?) of Nightingale Lane.

Purveyor of local ales, the Wanstead Tap, has been trying to lure Antic London into getting interested in the site. The company operates the Red Lion in Leytonstone and a number of other celebrated pubs across London.

However, it seems someone else has got there first

• The text of Mr Cryer’s motion “notes that the Gay Hussar has played an important role in the culinary, political and journalistic life of the capital for more than 60 years and as such is an important national institution; and applauds any initiative, including a possible diners’ and staff co-operative venture, as a means of keeping the Gay Hussar alive for future generations of rebels and Rabelaisians to enjoy.”

A Rabelaisian is someone who indulges in bawdy humour. Whoopee cushions, perhaps.

• The Wanstead Tap, meanwhile, is to open a pop-up shop in Wanstead Shoreditch from Nov 25.