SUNDAY 9th MARCH

 What a bizarre Sunday it was today… There was a kind of feeling of
nervousness about the police this week, and we had had a meeting late on
Saturday night to discuss our tactics and try and predict the police's
tactics. We had less cooks today which meant that we did massively efficient
cooking, and there was definitely a lot of singing and dancing to funk
classics (our regular funk-hating cook was away this week so we took the
opportunity to get down, and also to get up, and also to get down on it),
and we were ready to go long before we normally are, so we drank lots of tea
and stared at the rain, which was pissing down. We eventually decided to buy
a gazebo so we could shelter the caramelized bananas and women's day special
vagina pie (sweet potato pie with a graphic pastry vagina on top) and
started drawing up a stealthy plan to set up the gazebo around the corner
and brandish it before the police before they could even try and stop us –
and then the sun came out, and dried up all the rain. After reassuring
ourselves that it would surely rain again one Sunday and we hadn't wasted
time and money on the gazebo venture, we were able to beam with the sun and
go and meet the massive herd of supporters that were already waiting for us
and our cakes at brixton town square! The first thing the brixton police say
to us when we set up today is, 'what's on the menu for today then guys?'…
After half a second of awkward and hesitant response to the smarmy false
niceness from the police, we enthusiastically show off our creations and
lovely old bill give their compliments and let us know 'we'll just be over
here if you need us'. They then proceed to bombard us, the bike workshop and
all of our supporters with cameras and get a good selection detailed shots
of everyone there. We chose not to let this ruin our fun and had an amazing
day with all kinds of people, so many people, everyone showing their support
and signing our petition, and special banner making workshop for women's
day! The banner making didn't really produce anything really very good, but
was full of good intentions and empowerment! People had come from all over
London, and even more of the people of brixton came to talk to us and eat,
and some other friends had made extra amazing amazing food to bring along
and serve up!!! There was also loads of cameras and journalists who seemed
to be very impressed by our cake and generally supportive towards us and
shocked by the police repression we've been experiencing. And one woman came
from a catering company especially to organize for us to collect their waste
and use it for our cooking! We also had a busker with a tiny guitar
spontaneously bounce up out of nowhere and almost sing a few sort of songs
before being overshadowed by one of our new local brixton friends intent on
showing him proper music. Overall the day was a super amazing success!
However, we definitely, definitely, still don't trust the police… they are
DEFINITELY up to something…