Demo?

[Steve Daszko]

Anybody know what the demo along Fann Street was today, around 1.30pm.  A crowd of about 15 people were gathered around the newly planted trees.  They then started singing/chanting and dancing up and down!    Three Police Officers were in attendance as well.

I saw something on the Barbican Talk website last week about protesters demonstrating outside The Barbican centre wanting "equal rights" and "fair minimum wages for cleaners"!

 

 

 

[Nick Lee]

It might well have been the Golden Lane gardening group. Was a notice in the estate office saying they were looking for volunteers to enact a fertility dance for the new apple trees.
Sort of like 'wassailing' but at a different time of year.
Ps I think there's a photo on here of one of the gardeners dancing around a tree (or sapling) in a sort of lewd fertilising manner. The white raincoat I believe has 'significance'...

[Steve Daszko]

Ar, that`s what is was.   But why were three Police Officers needed I wonder?    Reminds me of a scene from the cult movie "The Wicker Man"!!!