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      CommentAuthored
    • CommentTimeApr 17th 2007
     
    Word up !
    • CommentAuthoremine
    • CommentTimeApr 18th 2007
     
    Hello all, I'm new. I love the site. I've been in N4 for three years and think it's brill. My favourite things about Stroud Green:

    That little stuffed goat?/sheep? thing in Woodys by the meat counter
    The big husky-ish dog outside the flower shop with the blue eyes - but where has he gone?!
    Drinking at 10am at the White Lion (ok, I don't actually do that but I like that others do)
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeApr 18th 2007
     

    Hello urbanm, welcome to the riviera.

    • CommentAuthorColette
    • CommentTimeApr 18th 2007
     
    I'm very worried about the husky dog in the flower shop. First his little friend (some sort of scruffy mongrel thing) vanished, and now the husky has gone too. And I didn't steal it, I promise (although I often considered volunteering to walk it, I used to feel so sorry for it).
    • CommentAuthormatt
    • CommentTimeApr 18th 2007 edited
     
    I wondered why my lasagne from the Italian deli tasted funny the other day.

    welcome, urbanmiss!
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2007
     

    Bunch of new members have joined that I haven't introduced. Al, Dreadlocks, Giles, Ian, Lucky and poxy. There are probably others, but forum moderation in recent weeks can probably be best described as 'slapdash'. Sorry.

    Please introduce yourselves, being sure to share a few key nouns that will help the rest of us google-stalk you.

    • CommentAuthorPoxy
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2007
     
    Hello, all.

    The name's Server, Poxy Server... as used on various other websites.

    I was told about thisplace.org by Mills, who I know IRL. I don't actually live in SG but I will do by the end of the month. Touch wood.
    • CommentAuthormatt
    • CommentTimeMay 17th 2007
     
    You getting a job at Woody Grill, then?

    Hoho!
    • CommentAuthorPete
    • CommentTimeMay 18th 2007
     
    (Because Andy's slacking..)

    Hello to missfrancesca!
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2007
     
    hello emma, lawrence and others newies who've joined as a result of me spamming facebook.
    • CommentAuthorIan
    • CommentTimeMay 20th 2007
     
    I introduced myself before but will again for sake of completeness. Been around and about for years but moved back up to Stroud Green area last year from south of the park . So hello. Again.
    • CommentAuthorEmma
    • CommentTimeMay 20th 2007
     
    Another Emma? Contraversial!
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeMay 20th 2007
     
    you'll have to have an "emma-off"

    i'm open as to what the rules of this might be.
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeMay 22nd 2007
     

    Hello to Purbbs. Do say hello.

    • CommentAuthorMichael
    • CommentTimeMay 23rd 2007
     
    Hi everyone.

    Fresh new Stroud Green-er here, been in the N4 for oh, coming up 5 days now. So I'm liking the guides to the best pubs, restaurants etc!
    • CommentAuthorLucy
    • CommentTimeMay 23rd 2007
     
    Hello Michael. Welcome a-board!
    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeMay 23rd 2007
     

    Hi Michael. You've moved to the right place.

    • CommentAuthorlucky
    • CommentTimeMay 25th 2007
     
    hello all, i have been living in london for 2 and a half years and the stroud for 12 months..... isnt it funny we probaly all pass each other in the street and wouldnt know who each other was
    • CommentAuthorFour Eyes
    • CommentTimeMay 25th 2007
     
    Walking up SGR or in Tesco's I sometimes catch sight of somebody and think 'hmmm he must be one of us'. We might become more obvious if we start wearing 'I heart N4' t-shirts...
    • CommentAuthorDavid
    • CommentTimeMay 25th 2007 edited
     

    I've added some slightly subtler 'I heart' badges for less confident.

    • CommentAuthorGiles
    • CommentTimeMay 29th 2007
     
    Hi, I'm Giles and just moved to N4 from East Finchley. I briefly lived over this way ( near H'gay station ) years ago and despite having my car nicked from outside my flat, still decided to come back. Bringing wife and young son in tow.
    • CommentAuthorLucy
    • CommentTimeMay 30th 2007
     
    Hello Giles and Lucky.

    Badges a good idea!

    @four eyes - I do this. Just know that I'm going to be drunk in the Noble/Old Dairy one of these days and start accosting people I think look like members. i suppose the upside will be we may acquire new members. The downside will be I wake up the next morning crippled with embarrassment as well as having scared people off the site altogether.
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeMay 30th 2007
     

    "start doing this"

    by my reckoning you were doing it Friday night.

    And if you take a pub into a laptop and find someone staring at you - that's Lucy too.

    • CommentAuthorFour Eyes
    • CommentTimeMay 30th 2007 edited
     
    @Lucy it begs the question 'what does your average stroudgreen.org member look like?'

    I have a good image in my head of the male stroudgreener, but the female user is harder for me to imagine...

    Maybe this warrants a seperate discussion of its own? The new members thread is getting a bit big and cumbersome.
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeMay 30th 2007
     

    Go for your life 4Is. "Four Eyes imagining what girls on the internet look like" - I can't imagine that's a thread that anyone has a view on....

    • CommentAuthorFour Eyes
    • CommentTimeMay 31st 2007 edited
     
    will comment when sober in the morning...
    • CommentAuthorLucy
    • CommentTimeMay 31st 2007
     
    @four eyes - I like that both your recent posts are edited. Wonder what you said first?
    • CommentAuthorFour Eyes
    • CommentTimeMay 31st 2007
     
    I was going to make a comment to Andy about girls on the internet not being my cup of tea but wasn't sure I got his sense of humour. I have a tendency to post in haste and then regret later coupled with a nagging sense of insecurity, hence my frequently edited posts. (I actually tried to delete but that doesn't seem to be possible)
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    I first moved here 25 years ago this summer.
    During that time I spent seven years away in the US but always came back.
    It seems to me that many people from 1982 are still very much in evidence locally.
    I don't think much has changed locally in that period.
    It's odd how stubbornly this neighbourhood resists being altered.
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      CommentAuthordomnextmen
    • CommentTimeJul 2nd 2007
     
    Been here 6 months. Victoria road. Love it. Don't own a dog but love them and wish I did have one. Have gone off the Sunshine Cafe after they gave my girlfriend and I green bacon. Hate the auto-checkouts at Tesco's. Love Cat's, Pappagone's and Jai Krishna. Am off to Spain on thurs to get away from this weather because it's boring. Yawn.
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeJul 2nd 2007
     

    Hello!

    Great list. You'll fit right in.

    • CommentAuthorAlex
    • CommentTimeJul 8th 2007
     
    Hi,

    I have been in N4 for five years, but moved from Stroud Green to the other side of the railway in the Harringay Ladder. (There doesn't seem to be a similar website for that side of the postcode -- unless anyone knows one?) We like to come to Stroud Green for eating out. (Petek, Cats, Jai Krishna, Porchetta and that nice new Greek one near Tesco. What's it called again?)
    • CommentAuthormatt
    • CommentTimeJul 8th 2007
     

    Symposium, and very good it is too. I've just added it to the Directory.

    • CommentAuthorRuth
    • CommentTimeJul 11th 2007
     
    I realise its not so exciting to have new members now there are so many - who knew Stroud Green even housed so many people (especially when most people don't think its a real place!)
    I live on Stapleton Hall Rd so perfectly positioned for all pubs and restaurants!
    By the way I don't have a dog, I have a cat and she doesn't like them.
    • CommentAuthorLiz
    • CommentTimeJul 11th 2007
     

    Oh no Ruth, it's still exciting. Welcome on behalf of the older SGers - Andy normally does this job but he's on holiday at the moment. I too have a cat (as do other SGers Petra and David) so don't let Plum's famousness put you off...

    • CommentAuthormatt
    • CommentTimeJul 13th 2007
     

    I was thinking just today that my road, Shaftesbury Road, was the best situated road in SG. They must both be on some sort of lay line!

    • CommentAuthorRuth
    • CommentTimeJul 20th 2007
     
    Yeah I've check Shaftesbury Road and I have to stick with my word that Stapleton Hall is better. Just edges you out by being closer to Woodys and having the dairy on the corner. I wouldn't want to come in here and start a fight but I will take it outside!!!
    • CommentAuthorColette
    • CommentTimeJul 20th 2007
     
    I give you Albert rd, strategically positioned right opposite Jai Krishna, and under a minute to Woody's and Porchetta.
    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeJul 21st 2007
     

    Do I live in Upper SG living in Granville?

    Or is it SG Heights?

    • CommentAuthormatt
    • CommentTimeJul 24th 2007
     

    Ruth, I can't even consider Stapleton Hall Rd as I had a long drawn out battle with Haringey, Islington and eventually Thames water when my car was seriously damaged by a pothole from the burst water mains. Although the road says Borough of Islington it's managed by Haringey, who are even more incompetent.

    • CommentAuthorRuth
    • CommentTimeJul 30th 2007
     
    Actually the Haringey sign is at the Larrick end of the road so although I'm closer to SG Road than most I'm actually in a different borough. This does have its upsides though as the parking permits are about £80 cheaper a year and I can watch the millions of Islington traffic wardens walk across the end of the road and ignore us!
    I have to admit I do sometimes still tell people I live in Islington though!!
    • CommentAuthorJames
    • CommentTimeAug 8th 2007
     
    Hi All

    I've been lurking on this board for a few months without posting - so thought I should belatedly introduce myself...

    I live on the non-Stroud Green side of Tollington Park :( In the St Mark's Mansions block. I moved a couple of years ago and have spent the intermediate time decorating painfully slowly.

    I have no dogs but have recently acquired two kittens - who have successfully undone all of my decoration...

    I am a bit confused about what user id is going to appear with this post. My name is James anyway. Am I the first James? This would be very exciting for me...
    • CommentAuthorJames
    • CommentTimeAug 8th 2007
     
    bah! it would appear my userid isn't James
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeAug 9th 2007
     

    we can make you James if you'd rather be James? Welcome James!

    There are a bunch of new members signed up over the last week or so, including kitty, lynne, sarah and possibly others I've forgotten.

    • CommentAuthorJames
    • CommentTimeAug 9th 2007
     
    Andy - that would be awesome - thank you
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeAug 9th 2007
     

    done. check me out, I managed to do that without breaking the entire site.

    • CommentAuthorJames
    • CommentTimeAug 13th 2007
     
    Thank you!
    • CommentAuthorRory
    • CommentTimeAug 16th 2007
     
    Hello all.

    It's taken me ages to introduce myself so, belatedly, 'Hello'.

    I live on actual Stroud Green Road 'proper', love Peteks, The Fullback, The Fish and Chip Shop, The Parkland Walk, Grumpy Jack's and Jai Krishna.

    I am bereft of dog, but own two cats, play records at a club-thingy and once served General Pinochet in a bookshop.

    I do not look like Simon Pegg.
    • CommentAuthorLucy
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2007
     

    Hello Rory.

    Cat owners are out-numbering dog owners significantly now!

    • CommentAuthorPoxy
    • CommentTimeAug 25th 2007
     
    One more cat here and another one coming in a month.
    • CommentAuthormatt
    • CommentTimeAug 28th 2007 edited
     

    We occasionally let in a tabby that wanders the Trinder "L" and most of Shaftesbury Road. Very well behaved, thirsty and has great taste in antique chairs! We don't feed it as we know it must have a real owner.

    • CommentAuthorRuth
    • CommentTimeAug 29th 2007
     
    I'm sure its not mine; she doesn't talk to strangers!
    • CommentAuthorgroli
    • CommentTimeDec 3rd 2007
     
    Hello am new to this but not new to Stroud Green

    Likes: jaywalking with one foot in Islington and the other in Haringey
    • CommentAuthorLucy
    • CommentTimeDec 5th 2007
     

    Hello Groli!

    • CommentAuthordominic
    • CommentTimeDec 6th 2007 edited
     
    @Groli. Hello. You may have wide legs. But I prefer to think that you are part of my mission to get more people to cross diagonally at the SGR/Tollington intersection. It feels wrong but it totally makes sense.
    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeDec 6th 2007
     

    It's an NZ thing I believe.

    • CommentAuthortonejarvis
    • CommentTimeDec 29th 2007
     
    Hi everyone, I've just joined but have lived on Upper Tollington Park for just over 2 years. Previously I was over near Essex Road but am really loving here. I live with my parent and our 2 dogs.

    I found this site by searching Stroud Green Road. I'm really impressed we have a street that's so diverse and full of life - especially as most of the shops are still local.

    Hope to hear from you.

    Tone
    • CommentAuthorDavid
    • CommentTimeDec 29th 2007
     

    Welcome Tone, I too lived over Essex Road (well, St. Peters, just off) for a while. The SGR rules.

    • CommentAuthortonejarvis
    • CommentTimeDec 29th 2007
     
    Hi David, well I actually lived on Balls Pond Road AKA "Murder Death Capital with a hint of car damage" of the Dalston/Islington borders. I'm very glad that I live in SGR area now.

    Thought for the night. If anyone ever tells their friends they live in Finsbury Park they should be shot. I make a point of saying I live in Stroud Green!
    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeJan 1st 2008
     

    When explaining to those who are Tied to the Tube, it is imperative you use FP. Even bona fide Crouchenders (yuck - imagine) have to resort to it.

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    With you on that. Sometimes people give me the blank look when I say Stroud Green. I just reply the nice part of FP.
    • CommentAuthorGiles
    • CommentTimeJan 3rd 2008
     
    We had Christmas Cards to us ( in Stapleton Hall Road ) in
    - Stroud Green
    - Finsbury Park
    - Crouch End
    - Hornsey
    • CommentAuthordion
    • CommentTimeJan 3rd 2008
     
    at least you didn't get Upper Holloway - a risk if you live the other side of SGR!
    • CommentAuthormatt
    • CommentTimeJan 3rd 2008
     

    I'm technically UH so I put it on my address. My post still gets lost or delivered seriously late - a week for a birthday card from stoke newington!

    • CommentAuthorflembo
    • CommentTimeJan 5th 2008
     
    I'm a new member. I don't have a dog, but one cat. I've lived off Stroud Green Road for 2 and a bit years now. I love the area. Out of all the pubs, I usually go to The Noble but when I'm feeling daring I go to the Tavern. I love Peteks and Pappagone's. It's good to be near the Parkland Walk and Finsbury Park is looking good these days.

    I have been following Stroud Green org. since I moved here but have only just joined.
    • CommentAuthorLiz
    • CommentTimeJan 5th 2008
     

    Welcome flembo. Another great name to add to the members list. And another cat owner, which is always to be encouraged. In fact, I think we might be in the majority now...

    • CommentAuthormagicP
    • CommentTimeJan 5th 2008
     
    Hello!

    I am new to Stroud Green and love the area and the site. I don't have a dog, I'm afraid (or a cat, although I think I am just about more of a cat than a dog person).

    I look forward to trying all the pubs and restaurants in the Directory.
    • CommentAuthorPoxy
    • CommentTimeJan 5th 2008
     
    Hello, all.

    Flembo: "Tavern"? Is that The Park Tavern on Tollington Park? I've never dared venture in there.
    • CommentAuthorflembo
    • CommentTimeJan 5th 2008
     
    Yes, The Park Tavern on Tollington Park. They have a woman who serves behind and drinks in front of the bar who's a Patti Smith look-a-like, a man who falls asleep in his beer. The woman who owns the place is very friendly though. The Charteris side is probably a bit quieter. It's usually quite entertaining in there, some lively characters. Mind you, I've been in the Nicholas Nickerby as well. That seems scarier to me. The pub I hate the most, is the White Lion. My friend had her bag stolen there by a man who looked like Cat Stevens. I've never been there since. Although, according to a leaflet I got through the door last year, it's a pub popular with shoppers.
    • CommentAuthorDavid
    • CommentTimeJan 6th 2008 edited
     

    Prior to the smoking ban and the joy that is the Fullback's Ewok Village, the Tavern had two or three precious outside tables that were the sole Stroud Green local outside drinking capabilities. The back end of the Tavern has a big screen that always seems to play vintage British comedy, that classic retro Costa Blanca mix of live Billy Connolly, Monty Python and 'Allo 'Allo.

    • CommentAuthormatt
    • CommentTimeJan 6th 2008
     

    A new friend of my Hunter should be joining soon. Could go by the name skarab (don't ask)

    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeJan 9th 2008
     

    There's been a rush of new bods recently. We've got a skarab signed up. We've also got an Ed and a thrifty Eddy.

    All say hello, please!

    • CommentAuthormagicP
    • CommentTimeJan 9th 2008
     
    I'm new! Hello everyone.
    • CommentAuthormatt
    • CommentTimeJan 10th 2008
     

    Hello!

    Are you really magic/a magician/named after an obscure Japanese video game?

    • CommentAuthormagicP
    • CommentTimeJan 13th 2008
     
    Heh heh. None of those, I'm afraid. It's just a shortened version of a name I use elsewhere.
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeJan 13th 2008 edited
     
    Magic P reminds me of Magic E from school programmes. The song was burned into my memory for some reason. I was probably at the age when i could have been learning concert piano or mandarin or skiing or something.

    It was covered on one of those bloody awful channel 4 list programmes a while back and I knew all the words.

    and of course, i found it on youtube.

    • CommentAuthormatt
    • CommentTimeJan 13th 2008
     

    I loved that song.

    • CommentAuthormagicP
    • CommentTimeJan 20th 2008
     
    I hadn't heard that song before - when abouts was in on schools programmes?
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeJan 21st 2008 edited
     

    It was on when I was at primary school. So that'll be somewhere between the end of the Falklands War and before the first episode of Capital City.

    • CommentAuthormagicP
    • CommentTimeJan 22nd 2008
     
    Ahh, I think that was a few years after me then ;-)
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    Evening all. Not sure who invented it, but this seems like a jolly good thing.

    I found you all on google while I had a strop on about the McAvoy piece in the Standard...

    And I hadn't realised that about Porchetta. Hmm.

    (see http://thegingermonkey.blogspot.com/2008/01/celebrity-obsessed-privacy-invading.html
    • CommentAuthorLiz
    • CommentTimeJan 25th 2008
     

    Welcome - I think you're in the right place judging by your blog.

    (BTW, Andy and David invented this. They are jolly good fellows.)

    • CommentAuthorkatiejane
    • CommentTimeJan 25th 2008
     
    Hooray! Do I get a gold star for starting a discussion which brings in new members??
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeJan 27th 2008
     

    hello to a couple more newies, Seagul and lottie.

    introduce yourselves, don't be shy.

    (katiej - gold star in the post)

    • CommentAuthorNix
    • CommentTimeJan 28th 2008
     
    Hi! I'm new! I moved to Stroud Green Road in December from 'up norf' and I know absolutly nobody in this place!! I am also confused about where exactly I live.... Finsbury,SG,Haringay,Islington... who knows?! I have a few friends moving down to London and I'm trying to convince them that SG is where its at! Hopefully we'll get a house share around here somewhere and I'll finally get out and meet my fellow SG-ers!
    • CommentAuthorLiz
    • CommentTimeJan 28th 2008
     

    Welcome Nix - if you have happened upon SGR as your first London residence, then you are lucky indeed. And if you are on SGR then there is no doubt - you live in Stroud Green. Andy invented a lovely T shirt to deal with just such issues...

    http://www.stroudgreen.org/?Page=shop

    (It's on the second page.)

    • CommentAuthorNix
    • CommentTimeJan 28th 2008
     
    Haha great t-shirts! I was just confused because I live opposite Finsbury Park tube so assumed that was my address! Don't suppose it matters really as the postman can't even seem to find my building andmy postcode dosn't exist according to the internet!
    • CommentAuthorLiz
    • CommentTimeJan 28th 2008
     

    I recently moved house, and the postcode the estate agent gave me was wrong too. Royal Mail's postcode finder is handy for such circumstances:

    http://postcode.royalmail.com/portal/rm/postcodefinder;jsessionid=1XL5IDZQ0AMZYFB2IGJERWQ;jsessionid=1XL5IDZQ0AMZYFB2IGJERWQ?catId=400145&gear=postcode

    • CommentAuthorIan
    • CommentTimeJan 28th 2008
     
    <smartarse comment follows>

    Of course, as you all know, you don't need Stroud Green, or Finsbury park in your address, or London, or indeed your road name. Just your house number and post code. Getting the right post code would kind of help with this.
    • CommentAuthorNix
    • CommentTimeJan 29th 2008
     
    "Unfortunately we could not find this address. Please check it. If the address is correct but we still can’t find it, please read the help below to find out what to do."

    Haha! I wouldn't mind but the landlord has actually bought big stickers and written the entire address across the front door!
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeJan 30th 2008
     

    Another flurry of new members, norix, mr sheen and lucy_luge Can you all say hello?

    • CommentAuthordion
    • CommentTimeJan 31st 2008
     
    i am starting to think that some people are not using their real names on this site!

    how come i never noticed that before?
    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeJan 31st 2008
     

    If you give mr sheen umpteen things, then, if it's his really name, he will shine them clean!

    • CommentAuthordion
    • CommentTimeJan 31st 2008
     
    so is tosscat your real name?
    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeJan 31st 2008
     

    yes

    • CommentAuthorPoxy
    • CommentTimeJan 31st 2008
     
    I wanted to use my real name but it was already taken.

    Can I change my name? I'm sure there's a precedent.
    • CommentAuthorlucy_luge
    • CommentTimeJan 31st 2008
     
    Hello, I am new. Resident of N4 for almost 2 years now. And I prefer Pappas to Porchetta. Scandalous.
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeJan 31st 2008
     

    @poxy: Go to "Account" in the top bar, then "personal information" in the left hand sidebar and I think you can edit your name there.

    • CommentAuthorPoxy
    • CommentTimeJan 31st 2008
     
    Who's Poxy? Is andy talking to himself? Weirdo.
    • CommentAuthorPoxy
    • CommentTimeJan 31st 2008
     
    Thanks, andy.

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