Wanstead

I'm Shawn Waggoner.

From our London workshop, Anahita Hasami produces diverse projects and commissions in stained glass to include stunning entryways from Wanstead to Wimbledon to Alexandra Palace.

Additional residential commissions include windows that feature dragonfly wings and Klimt-inspired designs created with glass roundels.

Hasami has also collaborated with artist and friend Amara Por Dios to create a stained glass interpretation of her artwork currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art, Nortali Kunsthal, in Dios's current solo show.

And as we marched towards London, I started to see and feel their commitment.

Just before the end of our fellow journey march, they invited me to go to their meeting, which was in Wanstead, London.

The first time I entered this very old meeting house, which was used as a hunting lodge in the time of Elizabeth I, I knew and felt that I'd found my spiritual home.

Margaret Fell was the one who declared to King Charles II that we do utterly deny with all outward wars and strife and fighting with outward weapons.

Well, we're desperately trying to fix all the problems here tonight.

Charles in Wanstead is listening on his phone, but I think the A-Lady's working now, Charles.

But anyway, if you're already listening on the phone, no need to switch over, really, is there? So that was Somebody's Watching Me by Rockwell, especially for Ron Indulge.

Sorry you missed the beginning part of it, Ron, but perhaps we'll play it next week for you.

Yeah, thanks for that one, Tara.

OK, so competition then.

Charles in Wanstead came in first with the right answer.

Then we had Ron in Dalish and John in Derbyshire.

Let's press ahead and see what happens.

Wanstead.

Hello, Sophie.

Hello, Nick.

And, um...

Peter says, has your glamorous assistant come as Sophie? Who's Sophie? Huh?

I think he means Sophie in Wanstead.

Oh.

But she did not.

Essex retired to his house at Wanstead.

And at court, Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth...

This Essex, whom we have raised from nothing, says he cannot ask for pardon.

I feel like golf courses often have terrible Wi-Fi in the clubhouses, right? Which is a very niche complaint, but I'm happy to lean into those.

A clubhouse I went to recently is Wanstead, right? Which I was lucky enough to play the other day, which is a really nice course, Wanstead in East London.

And those guys there, there's a company called PARZ, P-A-R-Z, and they have invested a lot of money and they have upped the clubhouse.

It looks amazing.

We've got Walking Back to Happiness.

Yep, Helen Shapiro, and it's especially for Rochelle in Wanstead.

1961

Funny, but it's true What loneliness can do Since I've been away I have loved you more each day Walking back to happiness Whoop-bye, oh yeah Said goodbye to loneliness Whoop-bye, oh yeah I never knew I'd miss you.

Yeah, he's in Dulwich.

Charles.

In Wanstead.

And Rochelle.

Love you.

Anyway, in 2024, between viewings two and three of Stop Making Sense, I commissioned my Taskmaster costume whiz friend Patrick to make me a David Byrne big suit, and I wore it to a club night in Shoreditch and a McDonald's in Wanstead, and that's all covered in slippery detail in my chaotic but criminally underrated memoir.

But then this summer, I wore the suit to meet David Byrne himself.

If you've had to endure this story too many times over the last few months, I apologise, but it is truly one of the great mission-accomplisheds of my life.