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R&R: East London’s answer to the Boat Race

Slack-jawed, Jack Wills-wearing raars, whilst increasingly spotted around Spitalfields, are normally not found too far from their South West London habitats. There is nothing they love more than the Boat Race; with jumpers tied around shoulders, Tarquin cracking open the Veuve and Penelope, who happens to be hopeless sloshed on the Pimms that mummy made, slurring her way through her list of rowing-related conquests.

East London, not wanting to be outdone by it’s well-heeled neighbours, has come up with an alternative.

Thanks to the excellent Made In England blog for putting us on to the Oxford & Cambridge Goat Race and for the image above. The event which is in aid of the worthy cause of Spitalfields City Farm, needs no dressing up, it is a race between two goats, one named Oxford and one named Cambridge. My money is on Cambridge as my friend’s sister’s hairdresser is casually dating Oxford (he doesn’t believe in commitment) and apparently he’s partying like it’s 1945 this Saturday at The Blitz Party in the railway arches near Shoreditch High Street.

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