This is going to be our ‘shop window’. We’re putting a glass wall here on the Hanbury Street side.

This is the first floor. The green rubber flooring has gone down but it was a bit gloomy today so you can’t really see the colour. It’s redolent of hospitals.

The second floor.

We never noticed this blue plaque above the caff next door until this morning.

According to the bbc.co.uk guide to comedy:

The Crazy Gang was a collection of zany comedians: three double acts – Jimmy Nervo and Teddy Knox, Bud Flanagan and Chesney Allen, and Charlie Naughton and Jimmy Gold – and, perhaps the most comical of them all, ‘Monsewer’ Eddie Gray, a slapstick maestro and comedy juggler of the first order. The acts had enjoyed individual successes but together they were a comedy phenomenon, packing theatres and appearing in a number of films, starting in 1938 with Okay For Sound (director Marcel Varney). ‘Crazy’ was the right word for them: their antics combined verbal gymnastics with farce and elaborate physical comedy, and it all seemed totally unstructured – lunatic stream-of-consciousness complemented by custard pies. Off stage too they developed an infamous reputation as practical jokers, and played many pranks on one another and fellow guest stars; hoaxes that ranged from the harmless to the cruel and, on some occasions, the downright dangerous. The team remained hugely popular for many years, Flanagan in particular being adored by the British public.

Seems kind of appropriate that Wieden + Kennedy is moving in next door to the home of the leader of the Crazy Gang.

This is our new building in Hanbury Street, Spitalfields. AS you can see, it’s a work in progress. We’re due to move in at the end of the month so there’s a lot to be done. That’s the exterior view above. Scaffolding must be a sign that something is happening, mustn’t it?

This is The Bear. Our favourite bit of graffiti. We got the bloke who was painting the outside of the building to go carefully round the edges of The Bear.

This is the first storey. New raised floor has gone in.

This is the padded cell, under construction. Yes, we’re going to have a padded cell.

The basement. Lots to do here.

Some more good graffiti.

This is going to be reception.

Thank god we’re getting out of this dump we’re in at the moment (lift and toilets out of order again today) but I really hope the new place will be finished in time. Watch this space to see how things develop.