I enjoyed my first visit, ish, except for cooking alive in the back area, they need some sort of shade/circulation there The coffee is a bit odd, milky, yet overly bitter somehow.
Do Costa do a flat white?
Worry not Kreuzkav. Gentrification is still somewhere over the horizon. The traditional wig and fried chicken industries of Stroud Green continue to go from strength to strength. And I would hardly call the replacements for Dudleys and Miso 'chi-chi…
@ Arkady
A message from Furby 2: I agree the old left are in a bit of a timewarp. But it is not whether holders of capital want a state, of course they do. They need legal protection and stability to shift investments to where it will generate the …
Hmm. My contract is £5.11 per month with my old brick, largely for the same reasons as Sincers. My partner has an iphone, and my understanding is that typically they cost £35 a month? I could never concvnice myself that it is worth nearly £360 a yea…
Money is power.
It's the power to live in an area with lower crime levels, to live in larger housing to ensure your children have space to study quietly, to spend on extra education and experiences, to not need several jobs, to buy internships and …
Just for some context:
For the UK the median wage for 30-39 year olds is £24k, £17k is just below the 30th percentile, i.e. just in the bottom third. However male full time wages are markedly higher, £17k is in the bottom fifth.
Looking specifical…
I travel all over london on the weekends for rugby, generally out to zone 4-6 going south, west or north, to such lovely destinations as Staines, Feltham, Uxbridge, Greenford, Barnet, Barnes and Finchley ( a mix of NR and TFL). In all that time:
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@misscara
The outdoor gym is actually joint mobility adult playground, it's meant for elderly people, although I don't think many of the users realise. All but one are non-resistance, and focus only on flexibility and some core strengthening.
Runn…
- Simon Amstell was massively hilarious on one of the morning programmes, I really dislike those presenters he was talking to.
- I have to sya Al-Jazeera has had brilliant coverage of the recent revolutions.
St Georges Hall
Anglican Cathedral
The Smithdown 10 (10 pubs from the student halls to the university, followed off by being mugged...)
A pint of Red Erik followed by a can of Faxe at Kellys dispensary
The toilets in the Philarmonic DIning Roo…
Sometimes the block of houses opposite stroud green primary on woodstock road is oppressive, especially at night, but occasionally the uniformity is impressive in the morning.
The single bay window that has been removed, then replaced by a wooden b…
Theres a point along Florence road, looking towards SHR, roughly around the corner of lorne or maquis road, where the houses on theright suddenly seem to curve up and around the (slight hill) in a pleasingly even set of blocks. Seems to vary with th…
Hmm, I think you always have to be careful what you wish for. Victoria Park hit a turning point sometime aorund 3 years ago turned into kensington-on-east, for hipster yummymummys, with barely anything affordable, some pubs got bouncers to keep 'rif…
Are you sure Andy? Sections of their posts appear to have been cut and pasted from the smae source
e.g.
"has cut the hair of my whole family from 4 year old tot to grinning granny and all the fussy kids"
Not that i really care. Such surreal s…