Local artist Pete Kirby created this ‘Fakir’ deck for our 2012 skateboard design competition WHATEVER IT TAKES.  Here’s a web gallery of some of the other boards. Pete talking about his board: “Beyond the obvious comparisons with ‘fakie’, a simple skate manoeuvre and ‘f****r’, a sardonic term of affection, Fakir is a statement about the […]

A great day yesterday (Tuesday 26 February 2019) at the Elders’ Club at the Masbro Centre, Hammersmith.  People brought in their traditional dishes and talked about the background to the recipes. So many were taught them by their mothers – from the Caribbean to Bangladesh and southern India. We’re hoping to put together a book […]

It was lovely to be back in Estaires, northern France, last week (7 February 2019) – even briefly –  and see our friends from the College du Sacre Coeur, the local history society and the Town Hall.  We’ve been working with Estaires to mark the centenary of the end of World War One for nearly […]