Filthy streets, violent crime, decrepit housing stock, people sleeping rough, bad punctuation… Stroud Green is merely “rough around the edges” is it? Really? Mate, it’s ALL bleedin’ edges! And buzzing? Oh yes, we’ve got buzzing all right: Buzzing wi…
Been there a couple of times now. Service a little slow, prices reasonable, food impeccable. Far too good for Stroud Green. It’s like putting a diamond tiara on a pig. Is it too forlorn a hope that the pig will wipe its snout and learn to walk on it…
I’ve heard tell that Massimilliano (the original owner) sold up and went back to Rome. It’s such a shame, as the restaurant was doing so well before they moved to the much larger premises and the pandemic struck. I suspect M incurred a lot of debt f…
It was very quiet in there a few days ago, but I had excellent tagliatelle with mushrooms. Just had a look at their site. Unfortunately the copy about their chef etc. is meaningless BS, but it’s early days.
Thanks @Sulker
I do often wonder if there’s any point to the Labour Party existing these days.
(Please try not to confuse Haringey with Harringay, though.)
@holbornfox Ha! Thass right, drag me into this! Well you’ve asked for it now, young/ol’ fellah-mi-lad/lady. Never slighted by me, eh! Well I don’t slight, see? No, a slighting can leave a chap in some doubt of the slighter’s intent. No, I’m from the…
Original report is from your soaraway Sun, so it must be all true, right? Makes the Islington Gazette look pathetic that they mindlessly parrot this rubbish rather than do their own reporting.
Reminds me of a story in The Beano, where The Three Bears were making a cauldron of marmalade (because they couldn’t eat dry toast) and left it unattended. The resulting volcanic eruption covered the ground in a lava that turned out to be delicious …
A bit of a dog’s dinner, having so much architectural detail on such a small building, perhaps a rather Victorian sensibility (even though the date on the left of the facade is 1904), but still a gem of what would once have been considered a public …
Unusually vituperative of you, Foxy, but I’m trying to follow your point anyway. Would you explain what you mean by “creating fixed demand in a fixed market”, and how that relates to this discussion, please?
Thanks, @Arkady. A mercifully quick read, although the statistics (which I never trust anyway) and the more specific predictions apply to the US, it’s very much along the lines of what I was imagining: far fewer vehicles being use far more frequentl…
Interesting comments. If it’s going to happen at all it’s a long way off, but I wonder if we could ever have a public transport system where buses are supplemented by driverless taxis, which could be more reliable in terms of booking and precise pic…
Perhaps, but I just had the impression that it was the same cabins all the time. Could they be using the reservoir continuously as a film location but for different productions?
(I was just trying to encourage a bit more activity in this site as it's been so quiet in recent months, but I got into it far more than I imagined I would!)
Well, I suppose the end should be when there are no more anagrams left to solve before I get around to adding any more, although I certainly don't claim this discussion as my own:
***Please feel free to add your own anagrams of local places for oth…
Gawd! I forgot all about these! Well, it's been very quiet here again, so I thought I'd resuscitate the unsolved remnants. Please have a go at these, or I'll have to solve them myself as, since it's been such a long time, I've forgotten the answers!…
Yes, nice to see you, Busby!
Love the mental image of the fire brigade running their hoses through houses to the embankment! I wonder how many fires were started by the old locomotives.
A bit off-topic, but since you mention it, I’m only old enoug…