We are (well, Finsbury Park is) a 'rapidly improving area'. The cafe of stilted conversation looks like Moka; can't figure out where the flats are.

I think its a helpful service to those without a car who need a flexible transport option, but given the restrictions placed on residents for the number of permanent permits they are allowed, and how much they have to pay for the privilege i'm interested to see how they got them all. The council is meant to be encouraging us all to use public transport, yet they must have ok'd the additional vehicles. If you also follow the "green" argument that is presented by the council for the steep permit fees, then how is allowing an additional 7 polluting vehicles a green initiative?

Can anyone shed any light?

Need it Saturday night will be returned Sunday just need the case.

Detritus and I got bikes from Freecycle and we have ventured out as far as Euston on our trusty steeds. I hadn't ridden a bike since school (centuries ago), so it was all a bit hair raising the first time, but I have found other cyclists and even motorists to be courteous and helpful so far.

Are there any easy to middling scenic rides around town that you'd recommend? Ideally not too hilly or busy. Thanks chaps!

As recommended by Wayne Hemingway http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2013/may/02/london-best-vintage-shops-venues

I know the shop but had no idea about the club. I miss the old Mind furniture shop on SGR - had some right old treasure out of the

I am a local N4 film maker and I have been commissioned by film London to make a low budget short film called “Close” about boy who gets closer to his Father after only after his death...  The scheme supports budding film makers. It will premiere at the BFI.

I am desperately trying to find a residential property to film in.  We are looking for a house on a residential street. 

Its main features should include:

Front door into the house with glass windows and a letterbox.

Living room that if possible has an open plan into the kitchen, but not a necessity

Bathroom with a bath, sink with a mirror and a window to the outside

Master bedroom, with enough room for wardrobes and to film around the bed or a room we could make into a master bedroom.

We are open to its interior style & layout but know we want to avoid white clean walls. We have £300 to shoot for 3 days May 17th-19th or there whereabouts. We would be able to put you on the credits and invite you to premieres where possible:)

To find out more about our film please see our FB page. http://www.facebook.com/closefilm To contact me please email geoff@wideeyed.co.uk if you have any questions and are interested, Many Thanks. GEOFFREY

So... I am thinking of having a bit of a giveaway. If I brought them all to somewhere like the Stapleton would people be interested in having a rummage? If you feel you'd like to leave a bit of cash for them I'd donate it to the Children's Reading Fund that Waterstones collects for. I'd just like them to be read by someone who wants them really. We aren't allowed to sell them, and some of them have quite strict embargoes so no quoting or reviewing them on Amazon or anywhere please.

Would anyone be interested?

I got a taxi home recently, and the driver was telling me some interesting tales of the area in the 70's.

He was a fireman then, based at Holloway then moved to the newly opened Hornsey Rd fire station. He told me about fire bomb battles between the Greeks and Turkish Cypriots at Finsbury Park, being roped into sorting out various fracas at the Rainbow, and on one memorable occasion, trying to rescue an escaped monkey that was swinging round the balconies on the Andover. He was in the first fire engine on the scene at the Regents Park bombing too - the reason he left the fire service.

Really fascinating stuff, I wish I'd thought to get his badge number - would have made for a brilliant local history talk.

http://www.stroudgreen.org/discussion/3935/found%3A-black-and-white-cat

Well we took her to Zasman today for flea treatment and when they found her microchip they called previous owners and they want her back. They hadn't reported her missing). She is going from a little garden flat in a quiet street with two people that love her. I am very upset but I doubt there is much I can do about it. Any advice?

Thank you

A very sad Miss A

When I left the Post Office the younger man was jogging back down Holloway Rd with a friend who had a scarf wrapped around his head, that's when I called the police, rounding the corner at nags head I saw the older man getting hit with a metal bar of some description and a blade of some sort he had blood coming out of his ear and head.

They then both run off.

I am no coward but I felt safer living in LA than I do in London.

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/climate/dear-waitrose-please-dump-shell-christmas-20121130

"Finny P, as locals have nicknamed it" is apparently becoming a cool place to live.' Finny P'? I think not.

http://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/property_news/affordable/finsburyparkaffordablehomeslondon.html

I hate to think that a few £1000 worth of food will be trashed and not given to a charity/organisation that could use it, yesterday the red cross in Spain started to hand out food to the Spanish population because they do not have enough to eat, yet our fucking awful piss poor Tescos throw it away like it does not matter, it will just be put down as damaged and this behemoth will roll on.

If you are something big in Tesco and happen to read this for the love of god please sort the Stroud Green Road shop out its a nasty place to be.

My first thought about Stroud Green is dog poo, why should I have to poo in a plastic tray when dogs can poo on the street and the owners just let it sit there like some sticky, smelly icing on a cake?

As a cat I have a few problems with dogs and the stuff that comes out of the more intelligent end of a dog should be cleaned up. They sometimes eat their own poo which is one way of cleaning it up I suppose (and roll in it, which no cat would do!)

Dogs as every cat knows are retarded but not as retarded as the owners who don't clean up after them.

So be warned, next time I see a dog owner not cleaning up the mess I shall claw your ankles like a fuzzy streak of vengeance.