Ian

Park Theatre needs your help!
O oh Park Theatre - time to have a word with the new PR company about their community engagement strategy ...

Comment by Ian June 2012 permalink
Coldplay
It was a weak gag based on Coldplay lyrics, the grammar of it is by the by. On another note the concert this evening was unbelievably loud. As a consequence my toddler is still awake, watching TV to calm her down. In her bedroom I could even hear C…

Comment by Ian June 2012 permalink
Coldplay
Ahhh that's what it was. I could hear some Jerusalem bells and, I think, at one point a Roman Choir piped up so should have guessed it was Coldplay.

Comment by Ian June 2012 permalink
Virgin Broadband randomness
Yea, right "BT Hotspots". Those are the things my iPhone latches onto only to be told there is no internet access. I spend my life going to settings to "forget network".

Comment by Ian May 2012 permalink
tv trouble
Be slightly careful though - you do need a licence for watching TV live online, just not as you say catch up (i.e. BBC iPlayer). Easy for them to check if they do decide to prosecute as well - just check with your broadband supplier if you ever ac…

Comment by Ian April 2012 permalink
tv trouble
The switchover means that the signal should be much better - the signal strength was turned up a lot and it doesn't have the same glitches of interference of analogue. At the same time they stuck a new transmitter on the top of BT tower. Before…

Comment by Ian April 2012 permalink
Stroud Green Fruit & Veg
Dried curry leaves are absolutely fine, and as people have said lime leaves you get fresh and freeze in little bags.

Comment by Ian April 2012 permalink
Stroud Green Fruit & Veg
I usually get my curry leaves from clockhouse store in Crouch End.

Comment by Ian April 2012 permalink
Boycott Tesco, Stround Green Road
It's not just they are surly - they also have almost no interest in scanning products. They are much more interested in chatting to their fellow workers and wandering aimlessly about. When they are there at all as others have said - it is fully…

Comment by Ian April 2012 permalink
Stroud Green is the mothership, maybe not!
We were saying the same thing leaving the park last week. They should make it perspex across the bridge, seems a great shame you can't see the trains and the view to the south including the ground.

Comment by Ian April 2012 permalink
Bollards
To be clear, there is only one bollard I monitor - that is the one. The rest are on their own.

Comment by Ian April 2012 permalink
Bollards
The bollard is already fixed back in place. The internet is a magical thing.

Comment by Ian April 2012 permalink
Bollards
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7079/7093960265_4ba9d95526_m.jpg

Comment by Ian April 2012 permalink
Bollards
Man down MAN DOWN. Photo later...

Comment by Ian April 2012 permalink
'Stroud Green' olive oil
A bottle now sits in my kitchen.

Comment by Ian April 2012 permalink
Pictures please
I accidentally walked into the elephant walking down that road last week. Only once I'd grumbled inside that the hedge bumped oddly into the road did I realise I had been glanced by a local landmark.

Comment by Ian April 2012 permalink
Powercut?
It did for my Virgin + box as well.

Comment by Ian April 2012 permalink
How to manage a pub
People tried reason, it failed unfortunately so thanks for stepping in.

Comment by Ian March 2012 permalink
Boycott Tesco, Stround Green Road
It's certainly can't be business slang for "running all the checkouts at peak time".

Comment by Ian March 2012 permalink
Lynne Choona Featherstone Interviewed by The Times
Worst. Thread. Ever.

Comment by Ian March 2012 permalink
Virgin Broadband randomness
There is an open source software to check what is on your channel and whether it might be interfering: http://www.metageek.net/products/inssider/

Comment by Ian March 2012 permalink
Whats your Earworm?

Comment by Ian March 2012 permalink
Virgin Broadband randomness
We sometimes get this, but usually only on my PC - the apple products we have are fine. This leads me to the suspicion that it is something to do with the way Windows and iOS get their IP addresses. Like all computer equipment routers need a boot ev…

Comment by Ian March 2012 permalink
Whats your Earworm?
Of course, you are right, I prefer to believe people looking out of their window to official survey statistics. I take it all back. [unsubscribe...]

Comment by Ian March 2012 permalink
Jak's Wine Shop
I'm all in favour of a decent wine shop in SGR - one of the things missing from the area.

Comment by Ian March 2012 permalink
Whats your Earworm?
I prefer a more systematic approach to collection of evidence than that unfortunately. I'd start with p 19-23 of the British Crime Survey, which says (as above) violent crime peaked in the early 1990s and is now back down to levels from the mid…

Comment by Ian March 2012 permalink
Whats your Earworm?
I'd rather share some evidence on violence rather than assertion that life was great in the 80s (not at football matches it wasn't, for instance) than make some assertion (the world's gone to pot) and then blame something unconnected …

Comment by Ian March 2012 permalink
Whats your Earworm?
I don't quite understand how we can both be more chaotic and more law abiding at the same time. Violent crime peaked in the 1990s and is about the same level it was, if not lower, than in the 1980s. I imagine it was pretty brutal in the 16th ce…

Comment by Ian March 2012 permalink
area profile
@Brodiej - I thought that too, it reads like they just picked it from an internet search but in one throw away comment does the community a great disservice.

Comment by Ian March 2012 permalink
area profile
I doubt they know anything about the area as otherwise Petek and Dotori would have made it above Mexicali. Looks like they did it from Google street view and some old newspaper articles.

Comment by Ian March 2012 permalink

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