Neighbourhood Watch Updates. Local Area

conformable_kate

It sounds as if Scruffy has already proposed one!

therattle

krappy, here are some suggestions.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/keepingherkeys/2018/05/simple-ways-to-honor-hekate-on-the-dark-moon/
http://hekatecovenant.com/devoted/rituals-to-hekate/dark-moon-ritual/

I suggest that we toss a Nando's half-chicken (mild) with chips and spicy peas into one of the roadworks holes, together with a red candle and a bunch of burning parsley (and perhaps some discarded fryer oil), while reciting the appropriate incantation. To satisfy the cleansing requirement a good hosing from the car wash prior to the ritual should suffice.

Ali

Will the red candle be lit? Think gas has been mentoined

therattle

Definitely.

HolbornFox

It would be easier to have a simple protest by staging a mass yoga session on the main road, underwear is optional.

LukeG

Some boys got into our flat hallway last night using the fireswitch, then proceeded to smoke pot and talk loudly about how they were going to rob someone... you'd think they would have some brains to keep it down

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krappyrubsnif

Does anyone know if parking up and sitting in your car, engine off but with dipped headlights on is a known drug dealing thing? See a bit of this locally.

joust

Drug dealers, Uber drivers, and people wanting to finish a podcast before going inside the house.

krappyrubsnif

I suppose dipped headlights or side lights-on in parking mode is default in modern vehicles....still, seems strange behaviour.

rikki

Is this by any chance near Bacchus?

krappyrubsnif

No but I can see that corner could be thought of as a hotspot. Some people complained on here about feeling unsafe there. Personally, back in the olden days when we could go to sit outside bars, I never felt threatened or uncomfortable.

rikki

I don't think the corner is particularly unsafe, but there's certainly a lot of dealing going on there - even despite the lockdown - and there's often someone sitting in a car on Osborne Rd, hence my interest in your comment.

Scruffy

For a few years the junction of Osborne and Victoria Roads has been a popular parking spot for what appear to be dealers, probably because it's near two main roads (SGR and Upper Tollington Park), and they can park side-on to the houses at the end of the terraces, so there are no doors or windows facing them from which they may be observed at length.

Brodiej

Black Ford Focus by any chance? Had the displeasure of watching a group decide to dispose of their dinner remains and packaging straight out of the car window onto the pavement, and then go the extra mile and decide to clear everything from throughout the car. There was loads, like fly-tipping style. All within 25m of an actual bin. Wanted to go and stick it all back through their windows, but given the likelihood of them being dealers with weapons, thought i'd better not.

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slats

It was right outside my flat. There was a hell of a lot of shouting, as you say quite a large police presence but no idea what was going on. I went back to bed!

gardener-joe

https://twitter.com/mpsstroudgreen/status/1283429802159022081