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Unfortunately they don't do megadrive games, but if anyone wants to borrow Dragons Fury or Road-Rash you can have mine for as long as you like.
I've only just moved back into the area before Christmas and was quite excited about living where I grew up again but as the weeks have passed I've realised there isn't as much to offer as I thought there would be.
Dudleys shutting down is a bit annoying as i used it a few times and found there waffles and milkshakes to be a great hangover cure (well for the time it took to consume them anyway)
However, I did like the fabric woman who made me some lovely curtains for my room but now she has gone. Also, I wish that little shop next to Mind that has had a dressing table at a 'reduced' price of 500 pounds in the window since 2007 would just admit defeat and CLOSE. The quality of shops on SGR is pretty poor, and stretches at poor quality for some surprising distance with only the odd gem.
Like Season though. What a great little idea for an eatery.
I suppose if I was a muslim wanting meat or a black woman wanting a new clip on hair piece I'd fucking love the area. Depends on what and who you are really, doesn't it? I mean, if I wanted to improve it for myself personally I'd want a gay bar and a rare horror film DVD shop. But you can't EVERYTHING on your doorstop can you?
He also mentions 'Marmite', for the benefit of readers of the other thread:
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2004/mar/07/snooker.features">Steve Davis - My Obsession</a>
an old fashioned sweet shop;
a good cobblers;
for the gym behind the Old Dairy to open again, but with more variety of classes, at slightly different times and some of the old instructors back (Mel & Natasha);
market stalls selling good seasonal fruit and veg (not 'a pound for a bowl'), flowers, bread, cheeses and fish;
a fancy dress costume shop, like the one in Mr Benn;
a Vietnamese canteen;
a very tall helter skelter ride and a bouncy castle.
Stroud Green by way of contrast is a breath of fresh air, an actual community in london. You can (could?) get decent beer from Jacks or the ale from the minimarket with shy mr sleazy next to the tube, a good fishmongers, there is a massive range of inexpensive, ok restaurants, good fish and chips, korean, japanese, rubbish thai, insane self promoting hairdressers and pizza makers, 3 kinds of crap Khashmiri butchers, 7,000 types of wigs, 15 types of frozen fish picked off a genuine cardboard sign form the bottom of a genuine cardboard box, 5 types of fried chicken that tastes bad even after 10 pints, abuse from old caribbean men in the white lion for being middle class, terrible second hand furniture from an 'emporiuum' etc. etc.
On a more serious note, there are obvious gaps like a good butcher, and somewhere for the overflow from the front room, and the places that sell 'little bits' aren't very good. But the good places are slightly off the wall, and sometimes surprisingly good, and there is a bit for everybody, not a perfect organic/vintage fantasy, but enough. I like the fact that the high street doesn't resemble a guardian article. you need to take the rough with the smooth
Miss Annie - doesn't SGR already have a ton of Oyster paypoint shops, ie the newsagents?