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Harris and Hoole is cool(e)!
If I employ my warehouse staff on the minimum wage, then I can provide work to two extra people. I get more people to do the work quicker and more efficiently, there are two less unemployed people. I can't just cut wages, but when people leave …

Comment by dion March 28 permalink
Harris and Hoole is cool(e)!
I think that working in retail is less skilled than many other professions. This is because you need very little training. And surely this is why the pay is so low. Something has to be the lowest paid job in the market and I can't really see …

Comment by dion March 15 permalink
Harris and Hoole is cool(e)!
I am a complete capitalist but agree that increasing the personal allowance to £15k would do a phenomenal amount to help lift people out of the poverty trap, as well as reforming tax credits. However, doing something like reducing employer'…

Comment by dion March 13 permalink
Giffgaff, anyone?
harpistic - my vodafone signal has almost died completely at home - is this what you are talking about?

Comment by dion January 8 permalink
Coffee and Empty Shops
It is looking like they are making pretty quick progress on the Crouch End H+H coffee shop. I still can't believe that it is right next to the Starbucks and three doors down from Costa

Comment by dion November 2012 permalink
Coffee and Empty Shops
No, it says 'I hear that', the hoardings confirm that the first post was right

Comment by dion November 2012 permalink
Coffee and Empty Shops
It is going to be a Harris and Hoole - the hoardings are up outside Clinton's to confirm this

Comment by dion November 2012 permalink
Zebra crossing Florence/Tollington
At last, after years of tireless campaigning and making this forum boring, I got a Public Consultation thing through the letterbox today with Options 1, 2 and 3. Not having a PhD in Road Science, I am a bit confused. But basically, they are going …

Comment by dion October 2012 permalink
sound proofing
Try acoustilay it's effective better than underlay but expensive

Comment by dion July 2012 permalink
Bad back
My back is a lot better since I started this thread. A lot of stretching and trying to improve my posture helped stop my hideous headaches, getting the right pillow, a back support for driving, a good chair, a homedics back massager and a macho box…

Comment by dion July 2012 permalink
Traffic Calming Measures in Upper Tollington Road - Local Residents Consultation
For further reading for the nearlydyingofboredom amongst you, I recommend this thread

Comment by dion July 2012 permalink
Traffic Calming Measures in Upper Tollington Road - Local Residents Consultation
@vetski - I drive over it and use it to cross - it is not an easy one to spot if you are a driver because of the way the road curves into it from both sides. A bump would definitely help as most people do slow down at least a bit for bumps. As a p…

Comment by dion July 2012 permalink
Traffic Calming Measures in Upper Tollington Road - Local Residents Consultation
£120k is a tiny price to pay for saving someone's life although for £120k I would expect them to build a bridge, not just raise the road surface a bit and do some painting

Comment by dion July 2012 permalink
Better than Eastenders: What I have discovered about my house (in Florence Road)
William Hodson built our house too - also 1879 - lived on Dalston Lane.

Comment by dion July 2012 permalink
Gillian Tindall on Stapleton Hall
(abebooks is owned by amazon according to wikipedia)

Comment by dion June 2012 permalink
Stroud Green is the mothership, maybe not!
If you get someone to lift you up and wave madly at the intercity trains, often the driver will blow his horn and wave back. This is excellent fun. It is harder with the local trains. The drivers aren't as impressed.

Comment by dion April 2012 permalink
Alphabet streets: the missing 'N'
complete fluke - no mystery to be solved. marquis of lorne was the reason why m and l got their names - one of prince albert's titles. osborne is queen vic's house on the isle of wight, albert was her husband, victoria was her name, and i…

Comment by dion April 2012 permalink
What do you need in Stroud Green?
Although I don't agree with Chang in that for most of us work is cutting open cats, I do agree that the key to success is maximising the 'short window' that you need to make sales to pay the rent and rates and that a haberdashery or a…

Comment by dion March 2012 permalink
What do you need in Stroud Green?
deli/coffee shop/bakery - do breakfasts and lunch, coffee all day, nice food to take away - deli stuff, and decent wine and cheese and ideas for dinner, should be busy all day with different people spending different amounts of money on different th…

Comment by dion March 2012 permalink
Boycott Tesco, Stround Green Road
@Ken http://www.retail-week.com/in-pictures-m-local-from-morrisons/5027061.article - Morrison's does it too! At least Fortnum & Mason and Selfridges Food Hall aren't multiplying everywhere putting our local delicatessens out of busine…

Comment by dion March 2012 permalink
10-Second Stroud Green Survey!
from a parking restriction perspective, some parts of mount pleasant crescent are in islington, and some in haringey. i know. i got a ticket for being on the wrong side of the road near the larrick

Comment by dion February 2012 permalink
3,500 topics
@andy - you have created a monster and it is no longer under your control

Comment by dion February 2012 permalink
Burglary on Florence Road
@janez - well, not exactly for free. The insurance company paid for them.

Comment by dion February 2012 permalink
Primary School nightmare
@janez - american spellings all the way thru

Comment by dion January 2012 permalink
Kebabilicious rebranded as 'Little Beirut'
they have the decimal point in the wrong place, £780k a year should be £78k a year

Comment by dion January 2012 permalink
Kebabilicious rebranded as 'Little Beirut'

Comment by dion January 2012 permalink
Soba
It is just capitalism seeing shops/restaurants fail. Lots go under, for one reason or another, but occasionally you will get a Pappagones, for example, which despite being a bit crazy to set up near to Porchetta, which I believe was very popular at…

Comment by dion December 2011 permalink
Stray cats
Thanks K - now he can come and sht in my garden

Comment by dion December 2011 permalink
NEEDED - 1 bedroom flat, Stroud Green

Comment by dion December 2011 permalink
Boulangerie Bon Matin
The quality of trolls on this website is not what it used to be. Can we trade for Slabber and MEDI PLEASE!!!!!

Comment by dion December 2011 permalink

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