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Local discussion: Surely SGR/N4 is more exciting than this!

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    As all the posts on here recently have been of the most tedius nature, I just wandered if anyone has had anything exciting happen to them or wtnessed some awsomeness recently?

    I was on the 19 from Angel Thursday last week, and the bus was attacked by Football fans
    on Blackstock road.

    They spat at the driver and kicked the Middle doors, and then the after being spat at the driver went apeshit and drove the bus
    onto the pavement trying to run the crowd over, shouting FUCK YOU BLAADCLAAT!! it was tremendous. Then some coppers came over and it was all over.

    It was reasonably hairy, but also slightly more exciting than recounting how many types of energy saving lightbulbs are available
    in the world.


    I love N4... I hate hippies...
    • CommentAuthorTallboy
    • CommentTimeFeb 5th 2010
     
    I was on a 19 that night. 5 Algerian fans on the back of the bus playing their drums and singing, on their way to watch the African nations semi. And I thought the feral youths who play music on their phones were bad!

    Blackstock Road will be mayhem the day we play them in the World Cup.
  3.  
    The drunk old school punks were the highlight of last weekend for me.

    I haven't seen people so completely and utterly smashed for many a year. One of them bounced of various items of street furniture before leading his chums in a rousing chorus of something loud but completely incomprehensible outside Nandos. This attracted the attention of the ferals who were lurking outside the flats opposite. There was much heckling and a bit of amateur fisticuffs before the kids lost interest and the punks carried on their merry way.

    Quite a few people stopped to watch, it was most entertaining.

    When do we play Algeria? That's not one for the fainthearted.
  4.  
    15th June...

    I might stay in and watch that one..

    Not that I'm a coward or owt'
  5.  
    oh, sorry its the 18th..

    Either way I'm staying in!
  6.  
    Oh bejaysus, that's my birthday weekend - might have to celebrate in the more rarefied climes of Crouch End.
    • CommentAuthorN4mality
    • CommentTimeFeb 6th 2010
     
    During the 2002 World Cup, we were driving through Newington Green and the streets were filled with 2 large throngs of armed ethnic groups on opposite sides of the road taunting each other. The cops were in the middle trying to stop it from escalating.

    It was surreal driving through the middle of it all. You felt like it was going to kick off any minute (No pun intended).
    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeFeb 7th 2010
     

    I'm going to meet up with 'fozze' the night before and cause the most mischief in the whole world, i wish.

    • CommentAuthorSlabber
    • CommentTimeFeb 7th 2010
     
    I have been banned
    Crouch End Broadway is closed due to a burst water main and buses are being diverted via Ferme Park Road and Middle Lane.
    • CommentAuthorwideboy
    • CommentTimeFeb 7th 2010
     
    Hmmm...Blackstock road. I was cycling home north along Blackstock Road 18th Nov 2009 (Algerian World cup qualifier) when I hit a load of traffic. As I got to the front there was a handful of policemen and women, stopping traffic from proceeding. Futher down the road near the shops and library, it had all gone a bit apeshit. I asked the copper what was going on. He said, "If you go down there you'll loose the bike. There's a mini riot going on. Don't do it." Near the library in stationary traffic was a bendy bus being vigourously slapped on all sides. I then I took off on another route but came back to the main junction to look from the other side. By that point someone had just dumped a rather large box of lit fireworks slap bang in the middle of the Blackstock / Seven Sisters junction.

    I later found this clip on the bbc from that night. Warning - turn the volume down!
  11.  
    On the 18th November when I saw it it seemed a lot more party atmosphere.

    There were lots of people but seemed to be happy, saw a couple of cars whizz past with about 20 people hanging out of and all over each.

    Seemed slighly more sinister the other thursday.
    • CommentAuthorN4mality
    • CommentTimeFeb 8th 2010
     
    Which reminds me, 1 night on the 19 going to Islington and outside I saw a guy wielding a Meat Cleaver in a Butchers going for another guy.

    Luckily for the other bloke, there was a lot of people in between trying to stop the Cleaver dude. 1 way to settle a Beef I suppose ...
    • CommentAuthorchrisg
    • CommentTimeFeb 8th 2010
     
    Excellent pun!
  14.  
    It's Back... Punch through the boring!

    Does anyone have a good story?

    I crashed my bicycle into a moped on Holloway road on Monday..

    Thats all I've got at the mo.. Thankfully I have no local issues to raise, or any outages to report... (although I do have problems with VirginMedia, I Hate Richard 'Smirking Prick' Branson)

    Surely someone must have see a UFO or witness a brutal murder recently..

    I LOVE N4
    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeFeb 25th 2010
     

    A fox had been at the bins on Mount View this morning and there were unsusual blue dog ends all over the path.

    • CommentAuthorArkady
    • CommentTimeFeb 25th 2010
     
    An enormous basement is being excavated under a property on Mount View Rd, pretty much opposite my gaff. One of the builders woke me up this morning by loudly calling one of his colleagues a ‘stinking ringpiece.’ It was funny enough that I didn’t mind being woken. They do keep breaking their 8:00AM start curfew though, they must be dead keen.
    Arky
    Yes, I don’t usually get up until 7:55, what of it.
    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeFeb 25th 2010
     

    Is that the empty place?

    I didn't realise you were an Upper East Sider Arky.

    • CommentAuthorArkady
    • CommentTimeFeb 25th 2010 edited
     

    Yup, opposite Albany Rd. Can I join your gang? Where are you on Mount View? I have one of the best views. Hope this works:

    MountView1extract.jpg or MountView1.jpg Yeah the empty place that they are renovating. Impressive job – they actually had one JCB under the house passing up soil to another JCB in front of the house, which then moved it into a skip. I’ve seen two lorry loads of concrete bags being moved down there, and several lorry loads of stone blocks. They’re installing a massive lightwell too.

    Arky

    • CommentAuthorArkady
    • CommentTimeFeb 25th 2010 edited
     

    I can't get the fecking image to work, and the guidance isn't helping. Someone correct me. ... OK figured it out, but if only shows part of the image rather than resizing it... A

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    That's it... Keep em' coming..

    I overheard to 'Hoodies' talking about how amazing it is that there are so many species of Beetle in the world, on the 19 bus this morning.

    Not exciting I know, but not about planning permission, or hypocritical Eco Fighting...
    • CommentAuthormiss annie
    • CommentTimeFeb 25th 2010
     
    @arkady
    I am so jealous of your view. I infinitely prefer cities to the countryside and I would love to wake up to see the City sparkling in the morning sunshine or even the drizzle

    If you guys live on the Upper East side I think that that makes where I live the West Village.
    • CommentAuthorArkady
    • CommentTimeFeb 25th 2010 edited
     

    About half the time it's too hazy to see much, but on a clear day it's breathtaking - you can see the roof of St Paul's and even the Crystal Palace Transmitter.

    I'm new to photobucket, but I think you can access this link http://s974.photobucket.com/albums/ae221/Redarkady/Mount%20View/ where I have lots of view shots, some at night.

    • CommentAuthormiss annie
    • CommentTimeFeb 25th 2010
     
    I'll have a proper look at those later, when I'm not just skiving at work! Thank you.
  24.  
    Being a girl, my head is full of butterflies and fluff and sparkly things and I'm bored with reading about planning applications, speed limits and local elections (yes,I know they are important). I haven't witnessed all that much awesomeness but surely someone must have something to declare?

    I'm extremely excited about the Grand National and my annual foray to the bookies tomorrow though. Cloudy Lane or Black Appalachi to win.
  25.  
    Had a bit of excitement two nights ago. Well I say excitement it was more strong irritation.

    So horrible shits playing music as loud as they can through a shite farting sound system at 12:30 in the AM.
    And it was just shitty Euro pop Pap.. Made my blood boil, and was looking for things to throw at their window from my flat. Luckily a couple of babies started to cry and I think someone closer by must have told them to shut the fuck up.

    It was anyone on here then thank you.

    If any of the Euro Pop loving twats are on here I will actually come over and burn your house down if you try that shit again.


    Thanks

    Oh and Eric's Charm for the National....
  26.  
    JFJ - are you my housemate? We've had all manner of shite music at stupid volumes since these guys have moved it about 8months back. Including a couple of nights back...

    The thing is our stereo system is much superior to theirs and capable of significantly a lot more base, only we have courtesy for our other neighbours and only really turn it up a notch when we know we won't annoy anyone (we don't care about the shit europop neighbours anymore, mind).

    Oh and my excitement was seeing a cross dressing bloke at FP station two days ago. A wardrobe reminiscent of Thatcher, apart from the side parting and the chunky glasses.
    • CommentAuthorArkady
    • CommentTimeApr 9th 2010
     

    Did anyone see the very tall man in a bear costume raising money for kids in FP station a week or so back? Someone else was doing the same thing this morning, but she was less entertaining as she wasn't shouting really loudly in a very odd voice, like the geek with the Afro in the IT Crowd. A

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    Brilliant... I am defo not your housemate. But I sympathise no end.
    This is only the first time the music has happened and I don't want it again.
    If it is your neighbours I will pay you good money to stab their faces...


    Margaret Thatcher WAS a cross dressing bloke.... and she is just about to take power again, minus the dress (ooo Topical)
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    @Arkady
    I've seen a tall penguin shaking a bucket for Great Ormond Street today, was it her?

    Also I thought that there was someone quacking at top volume outside the tube but was disappointed to realise that it was some bloke shouting 'The Sun' very fast.
    Not sure if he was selling the paper or greeting the glorious day.
    • CommentAuthorArkady
    • CommentTimeApr 9th 2010
     

    @miss annie That may well have been the one, yeah. Her predecessor must have been 6'5'' even before he put on the platforms and the bear costume.

    There was also a guy... on Tuesday I think... calling out "Big Issue! Big Issue!" from outside the Wells Terrace entrance. However, his ability to sell was somewhat compromised by his choosing to lay face down on the pavement. There were a couple of coppers there and it looked like he was protesting against being moved on. One of those cases where you don't know whether to be amused or distressed. A

    • CommentAuthorsophie
    • CommentTimeApr 9th 2010
     

    @arkady that man was there when i went to work at 8.30am, and when i came back at 9pm. that green tiger suit must have smelt something awful. the woman in the tunnel today though, what on earth was she dressed as? it was kind of a large yellow warlock princess arrangement.

    i'm sure most of the people raising money in that tunnel are all from the outrageous UCKG anyway. if you look closely you can often see their symbols on the buckets. so i bet no kids get a penny from them, it just goes towards buying another listed building and turning it into a creepy church.

    • CommentAuthorArkady
    • CommentTimeApr 9th 2010
     

    Thanks for the UKCG head's up Sophie, as I sometimes do lob any loose change in those buckets to assuage my tattered conscience. I think the bear and the warlock were working for Cancer Research but maybe mistaken.

    He was pretty weird though right? A

    • CommentAuthorgodzilla
    • CommentTimeApr 9th 2010
     
    She said it was for Great Ormond Street Cancer Ward I think. So hope it wasn't UKCG
    • CommentAuthorADGS
    • CommentTimeApr 10th 2010
     
    I think it's unfair to suggest UCKG do nothing for children - as I recall they were among the churches frequented by Victoria Climbie's aunt and which put her in a frame of mind to starve and beat the devil out of the girl. OK, if she'd wanted to go for full spectrum abuse then the Catholics might have been able to help, but that was still a sterling effort.
    • CommentAuthorTallboy
    • CommentTimeApr 11th 2010
     
    Nigel Planer smiled at me at a bus stop just off the throng of the South Bank this afternoon.
    • CommentAuthorIan
    • CommentTimeApr 11th 2010
     

    I once had a long chat with Nigel Planer at a party. Nice bloke, although he did try to convince me that We Will Rock You was a good show. He may have been biased what with being in it and everything. We then discussed rights of fathers for a good long time, a subject on which he was quite interesting.

    • CommentAuthorben
    • CommentTimeApr 11th 2010
     
    UCKG had a big, big presence outside the Seven Sisters Rd Tescos around Christmas - lots of bucket shaking and carol singing. It made me feel very uncomfortable, as 'Universal Church of the Kingdom of God' was written in very small letters on their garb, and I felt that they were exploiting the fact that most people wouldn't realise that they are an evangelical church. As a kind of test, I asked one of the bucket shakers who UCKG were, and he was distinctly evasive in his response, so I said 'are you the people who run the church down the road?' He said yes, but that the money went towards their charity arm (help desk?) rather than the church itself. I phoned the organisation direct to ask the same questions, and was given the same answers. I explained my misgivings, and didn't feel very reassured. They do seem to have a charitable wing and a community arm, but they are also an evangelical church, and I don't know how that works in practice. My real concern is that they are wilfully misleading people about who they are, and are exploiting seasonal goodwill, but perhaps I am being a bit precious about it.
    • CommentAuthorsophie
    • CommentTimeApr 11th 2010
     

    ben, what research! i tend to just avoid all shakies unless there is a specific announcement about who they are collecting for, like they do at holborn station. the ones in the tunnel often just say something like "money for the ill children", which is too vague for me, even if they're not associated with the UCKG. they are absolutely loaded and must get so much money for the charitable arm from their members, who are under huge pressure to donate. so i don't feel guilty about not giving them anything.

    i think that cancer research UK fundraisers have to wear very big obvious logos saying CRUK or the diamond pattern thing. i work for them and they are incredibly hot on it, but i don't know what the rules are if someone just takes it upon themselves to independently raise money for them.

    re: the green tiger, i did wonder if he was high. he looked very manic. not sure about the warlock, i didn't look closely at her bucket as i was too distracted by her outfit.

    • CommentAuthorsophie
    • CommentTimeApr 11th 2010
     

    i don't think my comments really fit with the title of this thread.

    so in other news, the ducklings are hatching in the park!

    • CommentAuthorActionVerb
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2010
     
    Someone wearing something very red this morning at the Wells Terrace entrance. It seems there's someone there every day now.
  41.  
    MOre noise this morning.
    Bad mood today.

    I am actually going to kill the C*nts.

    If anyone lives on Tollington park Hornsey Road end, or on Bimam road and you're having the same problem then let me know as I will be more than happy to form a lynch mob.

    I HATE N4
    • CommentAuthorMisscara
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2010
     

    Oooo ducklings! I will go and have a look tonight.

    Last week I was enjoying a walk with Four Eyes when we spotted a Woodpecker (tree next to the bowling green) and a pair of Pied Wagtails (opposite end of the lake to the cafe).

    • CommentAuthormiss annie
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2010 edited
     
    We should be on the Wildlife in SG thread for this really but here goes..
    I have a nesting pair of woodpeckers in the garden and a charm of goldfinches have taken up residence in the big tree next door. They are all regulars at my bird feeders along with blue tits and the other usual suspects. I love Spring!
    • CommentAuthorPhilistine
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2010
     
    I love spring, too. So glad it's finally here! Seems an age since I last had the air rifle out. Where are these ducklings again?
    • CommentAuthoremine
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2010
     

    I really like the new man who does tap dancing at the tube station, just where the buses disgorge their passengers. I feel bad that I haven't given him any money yet though. I will.

    In wildlife-related news, I have taught a squirrel in my garden to eat hazelnuts out of my hands. I had cracked the nuts for it already, but I have since learnt that they like to do it themselves.

    • CommentAuthormiss annie
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2010
     
    @Philistine, perhaps you could sort JFJ's noisy neighbours out!
    • CommentAuthorJenowl
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2010
     
    Some new saplings have been planted on UTP on the way to Nando's.
  48.  
    Oh yes please do shoot my neighbours...

    I have been falling asleep at my desk today because of those tasteless, selfish twat-faces.

    Oh and Yeah, WOO Spring is here!!!
    • CommentAuthorMisscara
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2010
     

    JFJ - Do you live in the Islington or Haringay side? Islington council were pretty good at dealing with my noisy neighbours when I lived on their side. It's a good idea to start making a list of specific incidents - dates/times/type of noise (music/shouting/car alarms/construction work) and if you can talk to your other neighbours and get them to call in and complain as well it'll give you more clout.

    I am regularly woken up by my upstairs neighbour having sex at all hours of the night but I never see him to complain about it. His night-time antics must render him too exhausted to get up during the day.

    • CommentAuthorArkady
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2010
     

    It’s a tricky one with sex noises though. Other untimely or overloud noises at inappropriate hours really wind me up, and I’ve been known to go to some extremes to discourage people from trampling on my legitimate peace and quiet. But I would feel rather churlish if I whinged about somebody getting their rocks off, as long as they didn’t get a gong to announce their orgasm like the fellahs in Scrubs. Misscara, is there a particular time of night when it would be acceptable for your neighbour to be having a root, or are you complaining about the extreme volume of the jungle noises regardless of their timing? A

    • CommentAuthorMisscara
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2010
     

    It tends to start at around 1am, and go on til about 3am. I'm actually quite impressed by his stamina and really a little bit jealous.

    • CommentAuthorArkady
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2010
     

    Bloody hell. Is it possible he’s hosting a swingers party?

  53.  
    I do Live on the Islington side, and am all ready to complain.

    The sex noise one is tricky, whilst it has a hilarious novelty at first, I imagine it gets quite Grinding (Ahem) after a while.

    I really loved it here when I first moved in. It was quiet,apart from a dog barking once or twice, and my upstairs neighbour occasionally snoring like a boar.

    The only disturbance would be the birdsong in the morning which, even a miserable twat like me couldn't help but enjoy.

    now it is Shite student inconsiderate blastings at stupid o'clock.
    • CommentAuthorPhilistine
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2010
     
    Jungle. If these heinous rapists are keeping you awake you have a choice. 

    1: Ring the police/council noise department (whatever the fuck it's called).

    2: Take a gallon of Domestos round and whiten their flat. Then pull their teeth out with pliers. (I will help you with this.)

    As for sex noises, are you sure it isn't pigeons? They sound a bit rude.
    • CommentAuthorJenowl
    • CommentTimeApr 13th 2010
     
    I went looking for the ducklings in the park last night but they must have been on the island.

    However I did see a pair of unusual geese on the bowling green. They were aggressive and chased off a pair of the nice orange-footed geese and a squirrel. Has anyone else seen these unusual geese? They are a distinctive orangey-brown colour with a black or white collar. I have looked on the web but can't find any pictures that match.
  56.  
    @ Philistine - I'll take option 2 please
    • CommentAuthorTallboy
    • CommentTimeApr 13th 2010
     
    @JFJ - did you get any sleep last night?
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    @Jenowl - was it a pair of Egyptian geese?

    I know they frequent the park, dunno how aggressive they are, but being geese I imagine they are pretty aggressive.
    I like geese.
  59.  
    @Tallboy

    Yeah I did, but that was because I was at my girlfriends place on upper tollington...

    I'll find out if they are still partying tonight.
    • CommentAuthorMisscara
    • CommentTimeApr 13th 2010
     

    Jenowl - They sound like the Egyptian Geese, I always see them on the bowling green. They are very different to the Greylags and Canada Geese. I have also seen a large caramel-coloured bird but couldn't tell if it was a goose or a big duck as it was sleeping with its head tucked in.

    I like talking to Les (the old man in the HiViz jacket who feeds the birds), he has some fascinating stories and seems to know a lot about birds and wildlife in general, although whenever I spoke to him last year he would tell me how the gosling had all been eaten by the black-headed gulls and he had found Rosie, the mother swan dead on the island.

    • CommentAuthorJenowl
    • CommentTimeApr 13th 2010
     
    @JFJ and Misscara

    Thank you, yes they are Egyptian Geese. I don't know why but it is a relief to know what they are.

    Here is a pic: http://www.marksukwildlifephotos.com/USERIMAGES/Egyptian%20geese.jpg
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeApr 13th 2010
     
    We are Ninja

    Weirdest thread on the board, intermingling stories of sex noise and duckling sightings.

    For those of you who would have us moderate this site more aggressively, how should we split up/merge this thread without losing the magic?

  63.  
    I bet Arkady is stomping on his Trilby in anger right now..

    Please leave it be
    • CommentAuthorTallboy
    • CommentTimeApr 13th 2010
     
    Yes. The original post is an appeal for "exciting" and "awesome" stories from N4. It shouldn't matter whether these stories are about sex, ducks or rock 'n' roll. They're all relevant.
    • CommentAuthorMarquis
    • CommentTimeApr 13th 2010
     

    I have a profound hatred for goose hippies though. Mwah.

    • CommentAuthoryagamuffin
    • CommentTimeApr 13th 2010
     
    @JFJ I live in that same vague area. Don't hear anything late at night, but then I do tend to go in to a coma as soon as my head hits the pillow.
    It was a little odd the other night though, every time I went outside for a smoke I could hear the Star Wars theme coming from a few houses along, strange.
    • CommentAuthorMarquis
    • CommentTimeApr 13th 2010
     

    (Actually I don't. I'm probably one myself)

    • CommentAuthorArkady
    • CommentTimeApr 13th 2010
     

    @andy This is clearly an all-purpose weirdness thread, and currently my favourite on the forum. What will concern me is if the stories about animals, vengeance and sex become combined in any way... unless it's a really imaginative solution to JFJ's problem. Maybe he can force his neighbour to shag a goose to death? A

    • CommentAuthorMisscara
    • CommentTimeApr 13th 2010
     

    I noticed the Star Wars music too, it was coming from the funfair in Finsbury Park.

    • CommentAuthorprincess_l
    • CommentTimeApr 13th 2010
     
    @Arkady At FP station yesterday there was a man dressed as Superman (including fake muscles) and another man in a weird red costume which I couldn't work out collecting money for children. They were saying stuff like "won't somebody think of the children" and "every child is special" which I'm sure was well-meant but it did sound a bit creepy.
    • CommentAuthorActionVerb
    • CommentTimeApr 13th 2010 edited
     
    Yep, saw them too, tried to figure out who they were collecting for. The weird red guy (devil perhaps?) was there on Monday too. Their buckets said something about Painted Children. If it's this, then there's not much detail there.. http://www.paintedchildren.co.uk

    Edit - you can even rate the sick children they apparently helped 1 to 5, with 5 being best...
    • CommentAuthorADGS
    • CommentTimeApr 13th 2010
     
    Not that I saw them, but might he have been continuing the superhero theme as Daredevil?
    • CommentAuthorTemeraire
    • CommentTimeApr 14th 2010
     
    I think that bloke has been there a few times in the last couple of weeks - no info on what the charity is which concerns me so I don't give.
  74.  
    Just check their Authority badge, which should have a registered charity number. and they should also have a letter of permission to collect from the station manager/TFL/or the council.

    If they have none of these then you should expose them as Blaggards and perform some vigilante justice on their theiving asses... or just don't give them any money and make a complaint to someone.
    • CommentAuthorN4Matt
    • CommentTimeApr 14th 2010
     
    Whoever mentioned teh Tap Dancing guy at the station, he is not new, he's been around for at least 6 or 7 years but his appearences are rather intermittent.

    As for the rutting noises, it's hard to begrudge someone that unless it really is very regular. A few weeks back I was woken by someone at it in a different building at the other end of our garden, they must have had all their windows open and certainly weren't shy.

    Continuing on the noise pollution theme, there used to be an annual party just north of the middle of Hanley Road. I think it was held in a car park with a huge soundsystem complete with MC playing reggae and dub etc, it used to go on all night. The last time I heard it I vowed to myself that the next year I would get up and join them rather than try to sleep. Anyone else know what I'm talking about? Annual big reggae soundsystem normally in August.
    • CommentAuthorArkady
    • CommentTimeApr 14th 2010
     

    Plimsoll Rd have a street party every year. Good fun, i still go down every year to catch up with my old neighbours. Excellent way of fostering a bit of community spirit. One year they had an amazing Indian Martial arts demonstration involving swords - brilliant. Half the street ended up signining up for classes.

    • CommentAuthorsincers
    • CommentTimeApr 14th 2010
     
    Does anyone object if I catch a few squirrels and release them on the Parkland Walk. I'm sick of them eating my tulips. I'm trying to do the right thing, but apparently the council objects to you lobbing them at passing buses.
    • CommentAuthorsophie
    • CommentTimeApr 14th 2010
     

    the red devil man is the same as the green tiger man! i don't know why the station staff let them stand there, it really pisses me off.

    and tap dancing man sometimes gets on the piccadilly line, he always makes me smile with his world peace rhymes. a few years ago he used to look like he was totally on crack, but actually looks a bit healthier now.

    to be honest, the ducklings i saw were in clissold park. sorry. there must be some in finsbury park too though, but i'm now scared that the gulls have eaten them, that will probably give me nightmares for ever.

    • CommentAuthorsophie
    • CommentTimeApr 14th 2010
     

    a couple of months ago there was a squirrel in my garden eating a caramel miniature heroes sweetie, he licked the wrapper clean. maybe if you leave some chocolates out they might be distracted away from your bulbs.

    • CommentAuthorMisscara
    • CommentTimeApr 14th 2010
     

    The squirrels eat my figs but I don't really mind as I don't like them anyway. They have so far left my tulips alone so maybe there's something in Sophie's distraction theory.

    The foxes like messing on my sunflower beds for some reason, but not anywhere else.

    • CommentAuthorgodzilla
    • CommentTimeApr 14th 2010
     
    If you're carrying plastic shopping bags through the park in the summer, squirrels will come up to you and wait patiently to be fed some tidbit from Happening Bagel Bakery. It's slightly perturbing. They don't bother if you're not carrying bags.
    • CommentAuthorJenowl
    • CommentTimeApr 21st 2010
     
    The Egyptian geese have goslings! Six of them.
  83.  
    Hello All,

    I had to call the cops about a month ago on a Sunday night, as there was a bit of a ding-dong happening outside the house. The conversation went like this:

    Police controller: "Police Emergency"
    Me: " We need some urgent assisstance, we have a large scale disturbance in Finsbury Park Road."
    PC: "How many people are involved?"
    Me: " About 100!"
    PC: "Sorry, did you say 100?"
    Me: "Yes."
    PC: "Er, right. We are on our way"

    Fair play to the Met, they turned up in a large way after 5 mins or so, which for a Sunday night was very pleasing! (esp when the Helicopter swooped in very low!)

    Turned out it was the Kurdish festival in the park had gotten a little bit heated, and one chap was bottled.

    How's that for excitment?
    • CommentAuthorMisscara
    • CommentTimeApr 21st 2010
     

    Jenowl - I've tried to find the Egyptian goslings but can't. Where were they when you saw them?

    • CommentAuthorTallboy
    • CommentTimeApr 21st 2010
     
    @ Jenowl. Have you actually seen these goslings or is it all just hearsay and goosey gossip?
    • CommentAuthorgodzilla
    • CommentTimeApr 21st 2010 edited
     
    I saw a pair of 'somethings' swimming round the pond this morning. They look familiar but can't remember what they are. (Not ducks)

    • CommentAuthorJenowl
    • CommentTimeApr 21st 2010
     
    Misscara and Tallboy
    I saw them on Saturday and took some photos. I will upload them from my camera when I get chance. The adults were busy persuading and guiding the goslings across the water, from the north bank near the bowling green, to the island. We walked around the lake and they had made their way back across by the time we got back.
    • CommentAuthordion
    • CommentTimeApr 21st 2010
     

    @Graeme - look like cormorants to me

    • CommentAuthorgodzilla
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2010 edited
     
    Thanks @dion! As a reward, here is a pic of a young fox who was guarding the entrance to Harginey Station last night (SG side)

    • CommentAuthornesta
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2010
     
    it isn't
    • CommentAuthornesta
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2010
     
    @ sincers - how to plan to catch the squirrels? I wish I could get them out of my bulbs too. I just sowed some courgette seeds and they are even trying to dig them up..... they are very fearless and come up close so perhaps you are just going to grab them...?
    • CommentAuthornesta
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2010
     
    that should say "how do you plan to.."
    • CommentAuthorJenowl
    • CommentTimeApr 26th 2010
     
    Another exciting water bird sighting on FP lake!

    A beautiful mandarin duck, like this one: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mandarin_Duck_22.jpg

    Also I saw the Egyptian goslings again. There were four remaining of the original six I saw the previous weekend.
    • CommentAuthorMisscara
    • CommentTimeApr 26th 2010
     

    Oh wow! Was it really the same as that one? I had a look earlier but couldn't find it, nor the goslings, hope the gulls haven't got to them. Will have another look this evening.

    • CommentAuthormiss annie
    • CommentTimeApr 26th 2010
     
    I saw a lovely mallard family with 4 ducklings at the weekend. And a squirrel up a tree eating the most gigantic toasted pitta bread.
    • CommentAuthorMisscara
    • CommentTimeApr 26th 2010
     

    Saw 2 Greylag and 4 Canada goslings just now, but not the Egyptians.

    I didn't see the Mandarin Duck, are you pulling my leg Jenowl?

    Spent a good minute or so trying to lure the cat from the bowling green before I realised it was a cardboard cut-out.

    • CommentAuthorLiz
    • CommentTimeApr 26th 2010
     
    I saw a big rat like thing on the path by the railway in the park the other day - definitely not a squirrel, quite possibly an actual rat but was massive - any ideas?
    • CommentAuthorADGS
    • CommentTimeApr 26th 2010
     
    The Giant Rat of Sumatra?
    • CommentAuthorShaunG
    • CommentTimeApr 27th 2010
     

    The famous, possibly mythical, muntjac?

    • CommentAuthorIan
    • CommentTimeApr 27th 2010
     

    Rodents of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist.

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