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Caramel is a proud mum, hard-working journalist, committed vegetarian, veteran campaigner and atrocious guitarist. She has lived in Walthamstow for over 10 years

I predict a photo op

So the diggers are on Walthamstow’s Arcade site this week, turning an unruly pile of rubble and buddleia into an altogether neater, flatter pile of rubble with no buddleia. Everyone will be so please. Except the butterflies.

How not to make our streets safer

This morning I’m pondering how we make our public spaces safer. Why? Because I wandered out to the farmer’s market, with my baby daughter, to discover the whole of Walthamstow town square and gardens cordoned off by police lines.

Parenting and poo-tinted specs

Before becoming parents, my husband and I would chuckle at the way friends’ opinions of Walthamstow changed overnight the very moment they reproduced.