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Yes, that was me. After all this time, I do think I know every inch of that hill now. "It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you can run 100 Finsbury Parkruns without stopping at Manor House on the second lap and having a littl…
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Haha, thanks Andy - no, I'm the dishevelled, hairy guy who looks like he should be drinking in Wetherspoons at 9am on a Saturday rather than trying to run 5k. I agree with the rest of what you say though - there really is no snobbery in it at all, a…
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I love it. I mean, I hate it when I'm running up the hill on the second lap, and I feel like I'm going to vomit up my lungs, but deep down, I know how much good it is doing me. I'd only just started running when I did my first one, but 102 of them l…
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Jack's looks like any other off license from outside, I can forgive anyone for having low expectations. But when you are in inside, wow. Belgian trappist ales. German wheat beers. American IPAs. English porters. The sort of thing you don't get in Te…
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Auctioneers - next door to the Old Dairy.
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Oooh yes. Maybe we could design and brew an SG.org beer using a blend of five different hops: The London Brewing Co's "Fiveways Junction".
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Jack's ran out of Rochefort 10 a few weeks back. Sent me into a deep depression until they got a restock.
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Thursday! PS Lovely to come into the warmth of the Bull for a good roast dinner and a pint after a long snowy trudge yesterday.
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The Bull is great. There does seem to be a bit of a gap for a really good specialist beer bar round this way - both the Bull and Jolly Butchers are quite a long, wobbly stagger away after a night on the Brewdogs and Rocheforts...
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Another mugging on MVR last night east of the junction with FPR, at around 6:30pm. That stretch seems to be a bit of a target at the minute, so keep your wits about you, and your valuables out of sight.
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We are already in Haringey, the same borough as Tottenham. The n4 postcode already stretches from the edge of Crouch End across Harringay towards Seven Sisters. An electoral boundary review won't affect these, and really isn't going to have any impa…
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I was mugged by a guy with a knife on Mount View Road last year. He snatched my phone, but didn't get my wallet as I figured I was probably a faster runner than he was. It was on the quiet end where it crosses the Parkland Walk, I've never walked al…
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Ministers may be in charge of policy, but Permanent Secretaries are the ones who run government departments, and they aren't elected.
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They are required to publish it in their accounts every year. This includes a full breakdown of the number of staff who are paid "just below £150k". The answer for 2009/10 was not "most", but in fact "zero" (it took me a full twenty seconds of resea…
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O2 seem to have fixed the Stapleton Hall Road/ Ferme Park Road black spot in recent weeks (new mast?), though I still can't tweet from inside Londis.
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Rather than the future, it might well be the past, if Haringey's decision not to allow it to formally change the premises from shop to ice cream parlour isn't overturned.
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@barebackreader Still around, sadly, it "dropped by" just this morning. Its territory seems to extend from the Spinney all the way over to the reservoir (and who knows how far beyond). I can confirm that whenever you hear cats shrieking in the area,…
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@barebackreader Big silver-coated, blue eyed fella (ocicat, perhaps?). Really striking, really beautiful cat. Sadly, also totally out of control. Went missing a while back, the owners put up posters - from memory, it may be called Shiva. Has been re…
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Peeing all over its house is the last thing a cat would ever want to do, so something is up. One of my cats did that for a while when we moved into our new flat - there is a really horrible, vicious tom cat that lives on Mount View Road, which was c…
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Can't believe no one has mentioned the guys who run the newsagents across from the Londis on Ferme Park Road (usually the guy with the beard, but sometimes his brother, who is quite possibly the world's happiest man, fills in). I sometimes buy thing…
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Is it Pepper & Spice on Balls Pond Road? I pass it quite often, and it is always incredibly busy, so have always assumed that they must be harbouring some delicious secret.
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I missed a plane a couple of months ago, when the tube strike made the journey to Heathrow a nightmare. Still made it to T5 with half an hour to spare, having checked in online, yet they wouldn't let me board - was told I needed to be through securi…
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I've travelled a bit around Romania. Bucharest really isn't very pretty, and I wouldn't advise lingering too long there, but the area of Transylvania around Sighisoara/Biertan/Sibiu is nice. If I recall correctly, train connections aren't brilliant …
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Well I don't know all of them, but I do really like Bleeding Heart Narrative (they played with Damo Suzuki in Crouch End recently), and Junkboy are good too.
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You can find a full list of them at the [Arctic Circle](http://www.jointhecircle.net/daylight.php) website
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You can buy the 1870 map (as well as the 1894 and 1912 versions) from [Alan Godfrey](http://www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/cgi-bin/sh000001.pl?REFPAGE=http://www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/acatalog/Inch_to_the_Mile_Maps.html&WD=park finsbury&PN=London…
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The Most Beautiful Girl In Wigworld.
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Tesco Crazy
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Paisley Paks.
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Karmenz And Pearls.