OK, I'll bite on this. Most people who commute from Muswell Hill / Crouch End to central London have a z12 travelcard because the buses are included in the cost. If they cycle instead, then they still have to buy a z12 travelcard but also pay 50p/da…
There's a couple of problems with the crossing, the first is that when you're coming from the SGR direction you can't see if someone wants to cross until pretty late because of the parked cars and the bend in the road. From the other direction it's …
@Papa L: Aah, that brings back memories of the incompetence that was the NHS in Herts in the 90s (I guess it might still be the same).
I worked during university holidays at Hemel Hospital, doing portering and ambulance driving cover. No training…
I remember the same thing happening when I lived up in St Albans a few years ago. The A&E and maternity wards at the hospital were under threat of closure. Low and behold, during the election campaign the pledge came from the (then) health minis…
With you on that one JFJ. Seeing the graffiti kids actually makes me feel safer when I'm running up there, those bridges would look wrong without graffiti on them now.
I'm not going back to the Larrik until it changes owners.
Last time I visited, last summer:
Six people in the pub at 7pm, three bar staff
Only me ordering food - a veggie burger and chips (£8)
45 minute wait for the food
Inedible food (and …
I saw somebody taking a photo of wall court today. I didn't manage to stop him before he got on his folding bicycle and cycled away along UTP. Maybe it'll soon be listed?
Not exactly local, but there's an NHS walk-in centre up in the old Finchley Memorial Hospital, about 4 miles north of SG. I've never waited more than an hour there, way easier than trying to get an appointment with a GP. Not sure it'd help with repe…
Whenever I hear the copter, I always think of the tv programmes where it shows it's got an infra-red heat camera that looks inside buildings and makes me feel kind of self conscious.
I don't think it's too hot an idea converting the old tennis courts. The people who use them for pick up basketball games, as well as the "jumpers for goalposts" football games on the main park use them because they're free and nearby.
All that h…
Wow, never realised there were so many co-ops around here. I guess they've never been able to crack the SG market though!
I liked the co-op when I was in Oxford, it had way better fresh food than the sainsburys nearby. But there again that was a …
@rainbow_carnage -
Lesson to be learned here: always go to your local offy to get that emergency bottle of vodka. You might have to queue up with all the underage drinkers but that's democracy in action ...