Neasden Temple, 2017

Groups of women preparing delicious food

Litter picking in style

Shoes off to enter the temple

A few years ago:  Neasden Temple and the Diwali celebrations. It was an amazing feast for the eyes - the elaborate, beautiful shrines with hundreds of silent pilgrims and the loud, celebratory groups of people enjoying food and music everywhere. 

Diwali in Neasden

 Beautifully dressed women in Neasden last night celebrating Diwali. I've never seen better dressed rubbish collectors

 

 Diwali dinner ladies behind the scenes making breads for curries - all hands on deck

 Alongside tons of amazing curries were pizza and chips - boxes packed to the rafters ready to go

Temple visitor's shoes hanging outside

Shady

 

Today I am celebrating the sun with my new H&M sunglasses. I'm really pleased with them even though they are a bit ridiculous. The suave guy behind the till in Westfield said they were cool though (I'm ignoring the fact that he was possibly/probably being sarcastic). I seem to celebrate the summer with diamante a lot - here is another impulse buy from last summer.