I went to Columbia Road Flower Market today. My first time there was in 2008. I remember taking mum there when she came over with dad for my BA graduation. We were amazed by the young shoots, the beautiful bunches and the East End traders shouting the prices and bunters as letting their richly brewed voices run wild. It was a day full of flowers and coffee at that old deep red corner café shop on the Bethel Green side of Brick Lane.
I got some spring bulbs for mum from George, whose stall was established in 1949, when mum was born. George was very generous with the bulbs and gave them rather by handful than counting them out. I got the better deal. http://columbiaroad.info/flowermarket.html
The South of the river Mission Year flat spontaneously invited me for lunch, which was delicious. We talked about our disappointments over different expectations and level of commitment.
I believe the reason we get on so well in Love Shack because we have no expectations from each other, apart from getting on. I find this more meaningful than anything else. We don’t thrive in serving the community as a community house but have found peace here and this I suppose what we all needed in this season of our lives to fill us. And this I believe is a viable statement in the midst of everything with its all expectations.
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