Wanstead weekend photo, XIV
More Wanstead snow pictures
More pictures from Wansteadium readers. Send yours – especially if the forecast heavy snow for Sunday arrives – to wansteadium@gmail.com
Robins in Chestnut Drive garden of Mick & Keng-Gah.
Three from Nightingale and Christchurch Green from David Giddings
Christ Church green, from Michael Phillips
From Bibby Binky
From Lorna
Frozen lake in Wanstead Park, from Bryony
From Suki Orange
Four from Clive Power
Wanstead snow pictures
Ok, Wanstead folk. Do your worst with snow pictures. Send them please to wansteadium@gmail.com, and include where they were taken.
Tour de France 2014… how close to Wanstead?
That’s the question the noble cyclists of E11 have been asking themselves. The Tour next year will be starting in Yorkshire and then making its way down to the Olympic Stadium, before heading off to France – a route which could (depending how you went) include Wanstead High Street.
Ah well, relax, it’s not happening. As a detailed map on the British Cycling website shows, and in red below, the tour will be coming down the A104 (Woodford High Road), then Lea Bridge Road, joining Leyton High Road and on to the A12. No cigar but it is close.
(Thanks, @mattgubbins)
Psst. Wanstead’s NatWest is 100
NatWest in Wanstead celebrated its 100th anniversary on Tuesday, but they really don’t want you to make a fuss. Â There were crisps, olives, and chocolate cake on offer for customers who happened to go into the branch, but it sounds like a rather low key affair, with certainly nothing stronger on offer than fizzy water. All in the interests of not offending the taxpayer, perhaps who do – after all – own 82% of it.
And the lowest key thing of all seemed to be that customers weren’t told the event was happening. Someone somewhere  “didn’t think it was worthwhile telling people”, a normally reliable source has told Wansteadium. And any leftover food was thrown away at the end of the day.
But since it is an asset we all own, and January is desperately in need of reasons to celebrate, Wansteadium would like to propose a toast (in water, with a Hula Hoop thumb-ring): “Wanstead NatWest.”
Wanstead weekend photo, XIII
© Geoff Wilkinson who writes on Wanstead Daily Photo: “While I was at the Nature Pond on Wanstead Flats the light changed quite dramatically and the sky was quickly filled with these menacing clouds. I liked the way the sky seemed to stretch down to meet the water and reflect similar colour.”