It's his shop. It's up to him.

So, in summary, no.

You lot make me sick.

You lot make me want to projectile vomit carrots into the smug faces of the bourgeouiszee of stroud green who all really want to live in crouch end or muswell hill but its cheaper in stroud green; and I haven't even eaten any carrots for ages,you always seem to puke up carrots even when you haven't eaten them 4 a long time for some reason,anyone know why? Back to the serious point.

It is out of order to single out individual businesses like you are doing here. Because they have a right to privacy.Leave shops alone.
Maybe you would realise that you are in private as badly-painted as they appear to be if you didnt spend so long in 9 to 5 conformity

If you care about shops then phone up the shopkeeper and have a chat about it to explain your concerns,like that halfwit who complained about graffiti,graffiti disappointed me a few times and I look the other way now, so what.But you won't because you just want to point and mock like kids going to bedlam to laugh at those who are maybe less artistically talented than yourselves shut up in a lunatic asylum or victorian freak show.

You can't be eccentric in England these days without dullard mrs mopp civil servants talking about you on a local community internet forum. I prefer graffiti to brushed steel and generally walking around muttering to myself,is this so wrong? I find it theraputic.

So ram me off the pavement with your yummy mummy £1000 buggies and try and run me down with your four by four volvo gas guzzlers and mock the colourfull eccentric shops of SG but we will not surrender to your conformity we are not crouch end or muswell hill where the less than perfect artworks are hosepiped off the shutters by the middle classes chattering classes disapproval we are struoud green where the mad the bad and Dr Legg from Eastenders circa 1985 live and travel on the w7. Dr Legg is my heroe actually...

I like Jacks. Have supported it for the last 20 years. Where else can you buy chestnut liqueur on SGR? The guys who run it are great. Clearly they do not want to remove the artwork from their shutter, or else they would have done so.

There are plenty of unattractively designed/logod/painted/lit shop fronts on SGR. Jacks is not one of them.

Save your ranting about a degraded SGR for all the Tesco trolleys

I think the rasta with the dreadlocks also did work on the extension at the back of the Fullback.

@ADGS : I'm holding you partially responsible if we start seeing copycat rants springing up everywhere

I have chased off Mr rasta with the dreadlocks man from spraying walls with rubbish graffiti just across from WLM . He was a bit unhappy about this and was a bit rude although I think he had just fallen out of the said WLM.

Don't they all?

ADGS - smart move, one of the best posts since I joined! You've made The Northern Heights go all quiet and shy.

White Rasta Man did spend a weekend about 10 years ago 'decorating' Jack's shutters. We assumed that he'd come back the next weekend to finish it. But, no.

White Rasta Man has also been at least partially responsible for the construction of the Ewok Village at FF. A cheeky mid week afternoon pint early last summer was spoiled somewhat by his drilling and banging. I love the Ewok Village tho'!

It took me about a year to work out that Jack is twins. I walked in and he was standing behind the til wearing a red turban. I reached into the fridge for some cans, turned around and he'd transported to the back of the shop and changed his turban to purple or something. I don't think I've seen the pair of them together again since.

I love Jacks. The only off licence on the road that always has Kopperberg Pear Cider (the finest pear cider in the world - the Bulmers and Magners versions don't even taste of pears) in stock.

Kopperberg Pear Cider can be bought in Ikea....

...though there is something very wrong with your life when you find yourself doing your food shopping in Ikea.

Hate the stuff, tastes of piss.

@ Charlieboy - and you know whats piss tastes of how?...

Estonian beer is a bit like that

I think I experienced what ADGS is says above. I remember this from drinking on the Catamaran Service between Helsinki and Tallin so it might have been Finnish beer.

what about asparagus piss?

Asparawee is well documented and subject of much debate/research.

You can buy Kopperberg, in most flavours, from Budget.

Budget is the shop at the corner of Woodstock Road (or one further up?). The one next to Nando's does it too. It's called Kopparberg there.

Jack's are just the best - You can ask for anything and they've got it and they are good guys to talk with and now training their sons in the art I see. I thought providing a 'canvas' for local graffitos was quite a good response to the 80's outburst of cellulose. A gesture that's buried now or invisible to witless youth at least.

@georgiegirl Budget is on Crouch Hill next to the Exotic and opposite the Old Dairy.

@Northern Heights the 210 bus goes to Hampstead I believe where you might find a bedsit and a graffito to match your expectations of urban art.[sic] You seem to know all the 'tags' That's a quite feat of mental mapping to link a small off license with Toy r' Us - you haven't been buying alcohol or modelling adhesive have you?

@ADGS I do hope the Jai Krishna will restore the picture of Dr. Legg to due prominence after their refurb.

Although, they seem to have mistyped it on their price stickers as 'Budged'. Perhaps that's what fooled you...?

Battle of the Budgets? Which Budget is best and why? No more than 150 words. Go.

The one opposite The World's End is great. A few years ago when the FA Cup Final was on you couldn't get near the bar in WE so my mates and I were nipping out to the shop to buy bottles and sneaking them back in. A few other peolple caught on to this and after going over to the shop a couple of times the man in the offy started to give us a discount the more we bought. He even nipped out to the cash & carry to get more as the brand we were drinking ran out, and he was kind enough to put thim in the freezer so they were nice and cold.