We have got some old railway sleepers in our garden. We got them in a reclamation yard but never used them because we subsequently discovered they have been creosoted which (according to some gardening blogs although others say it is fine) is suppos…
I like Hard Az Nails. The guy who does my hair sometimes wears a skirt. I can't remember his name though. He is originally from Miami. You can only pay with cash.
My friend who lives in the cordoned off zone said that police in riot gear stormed no 58 SGR at about 4am looking for the suspect but didn't find them. A witness said the stabber was a man with a pony tail. He was seen running from outside the Fulba…
In a house on Japan Crescent there was a poster up that said "Save Our Station House and Ticket Hall, Say NO to new development. Email your support to savethestationhouseandtickethall@yahoo.co.uk"
The lady who was camping between cars on Albert Road is now under the old railway bridge on the corner of Stapleton Hall Rd and Ferme Park Rd. she and a couple of others have set up a camp there. She waved at me on my way to Londis.
Chang - agree there are these things but the florist is rubbish, overpriced and I suspect a front for some sort of criminality for the minicab place next door. Also not really a retail spot but an independent cinema like the Everyman or the Curzon w…
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I'm emailing to let you know the brilliant news about our 5 year campaign for fairer funding for our schools, and to end the injustice of Haringey's schools receiving so much less money per pupil than neighbouring borou…
Went there last night with my boyfriend as we couldn't be bothered to cook. The pasta dishes were outstanding. I had one of the specials - big bits of ravaoli filled with butternut squash. I am a devotee of Papagone's but I sometimes thunk the ingre…
I love stroudgreen.org I'd be happy to pay a nominal fee to keep it running. It's really fun and useful. Commiserations on not getting the lottery funding.
Thanks for your concern chrisn4 but I am extremely well versed in both Child Protection and privacy laws. I'm not sure you noticed but I did not, nor would I ever, identify a) myself b) the child or c) the school in my post. The phrase "turkey baste…
I am a teacher at a local school and one of the Year 7 boys that I teach is the son of two lesbians. During parents evening his two mummies + his biological father + his wife came along. When I first started teaching the boy his mother (who gave bir…
I think it was done so at their instigation by a local graffiti artist (apparently before it was painted with their logo people would randomly spray tags on it) at the instigation of Ravi and his brother, so they are unlikely to report it to the cou…
I wouldn't say that Dickens satirises the exploitation of the working classes. He satirises the people who exploit the vulnerable - e.g. Wackford Squeers, the proprietor of a sham boarding school, in "Nicholas Nickleby" who starves and mistreats the…
Mine is the theme tune to the Seventies TV series of The Famous Five. Another teacher at my school was playing a DVD to his class while I was doing my marking in the office next door and now it seems to have permanently embedded itself into my head!
The illuminated bollards on Florence Road, at the junction of Lorne Road, have been knocked down three times in the last four months. I can't work out if someone is doing it on purpose. Surely they are easy enough to see? The last time it happened w…
I love Vagabond. They made borscht today and yesterday upon the request of one of their regulars. It already has a very community feel to it, and is an extremely pleasant place to sit for a while. They also have an excellent, very esoteric selection…
We spent a year looking before we found our house in Stroud Green and probably dealt with every estate agent in the area. Davies & Davies were streets ahead of the rest. Malcolm and his son Daniel are cheerful and charming. They are also very st…
@Mirandola Yes, that is the one. The first verse starts:
I WONDER by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved ? were we not wean'd till then ?
But suck'd on country pleasures, childishly ?
@ADGS True. Would possibly be a bad omen.
Also ee cummings 'Somewhere I have never travelled' is wonderful. Or an exert from The Book and the Brotherhood, Iris Murdoch:
I hereby give myself. I love you. You are the only being whom I can love absolutely with my complete self, with all my …
I always think The Good Morrow sounds absolutely filthy and inappropriate for church - 'suck on country pleasures' ! Love ee cummings I Carry Your Heart
Hi,
I am an exile from West London after moving in with my boyfriend, a longstanding N4 loyalist. For the last 6 months I've lived in a flat on Stroud Green Road and (fingers crossed) am about to move to a house on Florence Road. I am an English…