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Ged Hogan and the guys at Green Earth
http://www.green-earth.com

Comment by andy May 11 permalink
Book group Thurs 21st June, 7.30pm: Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
If you like that, you should put The Ice Age by Margaret Drabble on your list. Also, trivia fans, I was put onto it by Douglas Coupland, who said at a talk that it was one of the books that had influenced him the most.

Comment by andy May 11 permalink
Portuguese/Mozambican restaurant
I can't believe people come on this site and call you lot posh

Comment by andy May 11 permalink
Garage to let?
Ossian Mews?

Comment by andy May 11 permalink
Mayoral elections
What's false?

Comment by andy May 8 permalink
Mayoral elections
@checksi love it! Especially "trendy rhetoric". That's a keeper. I think you might mean "adjectives", but I prefer your way.

Comment by andy May 8 permalink
Somewhere to play drums!
Call up the owners of Oxford House (big white building on Oxford Road by the entrance to the Park). One of the groups there keeps a drum kit, or did.

Comment by andy May 8 permalink
Empire of Dirt
I agree with @checkski. @kreuzkav seems a fragile soul, though I have always suspected that he gets taken seriously when he means to be frivolous and frivolous when being serious.

Comment by andy May 8 permalink
Sparks
Investing in a camera shop is not a great advert for financial planning acumen.

Comment by andy May 8 permalink
Mayoral elections
@checkski There is something ironic about making the case that politics should be a discussion of evidence and policy, and making that case with a series of near hysterical personal attacks on people you don't know based on unfounded assu…

Comment by andy May 8 permalink
Reference
I thought the various posters on this thread would find this article interesting: The histories of faiths are all essentially the same: a vague and ambiguous millennial doctrine preached by a charismatic founder, Marx or Jesus; mystical variants…

Comment by andy May 8 permalink
Mayoral elections
There may well be a budget-blocking coalition in the Assembly. Which suggest the electorate has subtly made its point.

Comment by andy May 5 permalink
Mayoral elections
Sorry, i'm on my sickeningly bourgeois blackberry, so can't edit links. :) I would tell you who i voted for, but it's the least engaged vote i ever cast. And i voted in the AV referendum and for MEPs.

Comment by andy May 5 permalink
Mayoral elections
Do stop blaming voters. It sounds like whining. Labour should take this on the chin. They won everywhere - everywhere else. They chose Ken because they bottled it, too scared that he would run as an independent and split the vote. Their fault. But…

Comment by andy May 5 permalink
The Stapleton Tavern
I would come to this but our team would definitely win and it would be boring for everyone else.

Comment by andy May 4 permalink
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And it's too close to call on second preferences........

Comment by andy May 4 permalink
Mayoral elections
It is not unreasonable to say that if everyone had been brainwashed, they would have been brainwashed. It is helpful of you to take this statement "out of the present context", where they haven't been brainwashed. But if you d…

Comment by andy May 4 permalink
top celeb spot
@misscara that is a crap spot. the woman next to me was reading a really interesting semi-classified thing about afghanistan, so i was engrossed in trying to read it over her shoulder.

Comment by andy May 4 permalink
Mayoral elections
@kreuzkav If they were brainwashed they would all have voted (they didn't) and they would have voted Tory for the mayor, and the constituency and the list. They didn't. It looks like they split their votes across a range of parties, reflec…

Comment by andy May 4 permalink
Mayoral elections
You can almost work out the "Ken discount" to the labour vote from the difference between the Ken vote and the general party-list London Assembly vote. There are some quirks here (the two-round mayor vote doesn't punish votes for smal…

Comment by andy May 4 permalink
Moving to Stroud Green
Hello. I always got the sense East Finchley was somewhere people in Stroud Green moved out to, rather than the other way around. So there are similarities and familiarities. There's lots on schools if you search this site, but I've been to…

Comment by andy May 4 permalink
Strawberry man at Finsbury Park tube
@barnesbq At the back of the sainsburys in tottenham court road you can buy a bunch of bananas (about 5) for £1 - £1.50 depending on the offer. By the till queues in the same sainsburys a single banana costs 58p People are paying something …

Comment by andy May 4 permalink
Sparks
Sad but inevitable. Independent retailers probably have one of four choices: i) go 'pro' and become a go-to place for rare kit and advice so experts will travel to you (e.g. super rare imported lenses) ii) go 'experiential' and m…

Comment by andy May 4 permalink
Mayoral elections
In the 70s maybe

Comment by andy May 3 permalink
New Costa?
didn't know that. what makes them vegan friendly? soy milk?

Comment by andy May 3 permalink
Mayoral elections
If Labour lose today, it will be Labour's fault, not the voters. The 25 hr per week thing is the classic 'lump of labour' fallacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy In summary, you don't want the world…

Comment by andy May 3 permalink
Reference
@checkski - I think we're actually agreeing with each other. Belief and Hope are different. I was using it as an analogy because the formulation is the same. Even if the odds are against you, you can still have hope. You wouldn't believe y…

Comment by andy May 3 permalink
The naan bread shop.
I bet they said that about Starbucks when it first opened. "It only sells coffee - it'll never last"

Comment by andy May 2 permalink
Reference
I think the atheist objection to religion is often primarily about the truth test, ("Prove that the man in the sky is there!") which religious people for good reason, don't, won't and can't engage on. So there's an impa…

Comment by andy May 2 permalink
Reference
The generally accepted definition of knowledge is justified true belief. - It has to be justified, because otherwise it's guessing. You can't say that you know something you've guessed. - It has to be true. It might be justifia…

Comment by andy May 2 permalink
Reference
I read this sentence: "I don't think that kind of dogmatic adherence to any set of principles is a good thing even if those princples are reason and evidence." and was reminded of this Dr Fox classic: http://youtu.be/wEolSjl…

Comment by andy May 2 permalink
Mayoral elections
It's easier and more comfortable to blame a conspiracy, or blame the voters, or the media, or blame 21st century capitalism, but Johnson is eminently beatable. Livingstone managed to be Mayor before under the same circumstances before, so your …

Comment by andy May 2 permalink
Mayoral elections
That sounds a bit like "I do wish people would use the criteria I use when deciding how to vote" :) I don't understand why they put Ken up again. He's had a go, and then he lost. I was talking to a labour councillor this week (n…

Comment by andy May 1 permalink
Reference
Foucault's an idiot. Never trust a french philosopher.

Comment by andy May 1 permalink
top celeb spot
I am reasonably sure I saw Paul Young today. Worthy of mention because he was wearing a hat. We were unsubtly waiting for him to take it off and put it somewhere.

Comment by andy April 26 permalink
All types of metal i.e, gate, railing, staircase, beams, columns, bar, tube and all
moved to classifieds

Comment by andy April 26 permalink
The Stapleton Tavern
Makes it taste like washing up water.

Comment by andy April 23 permalink
Dog or Puppy wanted
Or take him to work with you.

Comment by andy April 21 permalink
Looking to start an organic fruit & veg delivery service for n4.
I made that up.

Comment by andy April 21 permalink
Dog or Puppy wanted
Ashman is right about staffies. they look like little menaces, but can be good family dogs. Unfortunately for them, they have become the breed of choice for idiots who shouldn't be allowed dogs, so lots get abandoned. Also, am I right in think…

Comment by andy April 21 permalink
Looking to start an organic fruit & veg delivery service for n4.
Courgette is the plural. One courgette is called a Courge

Comment by andy April 20 permalink
The Cutty Sark goes down Ferme Park Road
very good spot!

Comment by andy April 20 permalink
Good headline
Personally I'm surprised to see an Escobar go into drug dealing. You'd worry about always being compared to your dad. Like Julian Lennon or Kaspar Schmeichel.

Comment by andy April 18 permalink
Pictures please
As for Picasa (or it might be Google+, but whatever it is, it's all horrid and I don't use it) when I select a picture I can right-click on that and select "copy image location". You can paste that into the image box.

Comment by andy April 10 permalink
Pictures please
The instructions for this version of the site are that you can add the link directly to an image rather than a page with an image on it. Flickr doesn't make this easy, but it is possible. On Flickr, go to your photo, then right-click it. It…

Comment by andy April 10 permalink
Things I could buy from a deli if we had a deli
yes to chorizo I also made some of my own dry-cured bacon for easter. it was amazing, (if I do say so myself)

Comment by andy April 10 permalink
Alphabet streets: the missing 'N'
There was a character in the Walter Scott novel Waverley called Sir Patrick Charteris who was Provost of Perth. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ahsOAAAAQAAJ&lpg=PA215&ots=Ib6AljnR1X&dq="sir walter scott" charter…

Comment by andy April 10 permalink
Alphabet streets: the missing 'N'
There was a Walter Scott novel called Woodstock. http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/works/index.html

Comment by andy April 10 permalink
Whats your Earworm?
@ADGS That song, "your missus is a nutter" and "guns don't kill people, rappers do" have all stood the test of time perhaps better than anyone would have guessed

Comment by andy April 6 permalink
The Bull, Highgate
There are some very good pubs on these lists. No so sure about the Richard Steeles, miss annie, but it has it's place. I like the Lord John Russell in Bloomsbury, too. What about out of town pubs?

Comment by andy April 6 permalink

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