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Any fiction writers around?
Good luck to writers/potential writers at getting your group sorted out! I like to write alone and can't even say what my genre is, except for social realism. My 5 modest novels have all been rejected by publishers ("not commercial" w…

Comment by val February 8 permalink
Tesco Price Tricks
Thanks, Miss Annie. I must have a look.

Comment by val January 25 permalink
Tesco Price Tricks
Morrisons is the only place where you can buy Jonagold and small Fuji apples.

Comment by val January 24 permalink
Tesco Price Tricks
Tesco's Fish Kitekat history: £2.65-£2.89-£2.99-£2.65! The expected price drop is next door to it: Tesco's own Cuts in jelly @ 39p per tin=£2.34 for a six-pack. So best value so far, but I don't know what it was before! (A petty crimi…

Comment by val January 21 permalink
New features: The all new Stroudgreen.org
Marquis. Thank you.

Comment by val January 9 permalink
Tesco Price Tricks
Update on Tesco's £2.65 Kitekat, raised to £2.89. Now raised to £2.99!!! Watch this space.

Comment by val January 9 permalink
New features: The all new Stroudgreen.org
Help. Please tell me in one short sentence and words of one syllable how to open a thread. I tried clicking on the star but it does not work for me. I just have a simple laptop.

Comment by val January 7 permalink
Tesco Price Tricks
Generally, I have found Tesco cheaper than the big Sainsbury's, which I find a shame, as I prefer the ethos of Sainsbury's. Ali: Are you confusing Kitekat and Kitkat?

Comment by val January 6 permalink
Tesco Price Tricks
To spite Tesco I went to Haringey Sainsbury's for Kitekat and found their Basic meat with jelly and fish with jelly only £2.50. Cats love it. Some items in Selby's Half Price Sale are same price as before. Ian - thanks for that info.

Comment by val January 4 permalink
Style Opticians
I have worn glasses from infancy and I have been going to Dr Lim, by clocktower in Crouch End, for at least 30 years and am very happy with his care of my eyesight and his personal interest in his patients.

Comment by val November 2011 permalink
Digital Radio
Thank you, Beek. I like the idea of a solar-powered radio, and luckily I have a south-facing windowsill.

Comment by val November 2011 permalink
Digital Radio
Thanks, Krappy - I share your sentiment. And Ian, I have made a note of the Pure Oasis rechargabe. Can you get Radio 4? (I once bought a wind-up radio as a gift for someone when I visited the "third world", but maybe we will be in it s…

Comment by val November 2011 permalink
Ground Floor Flat for a tea party
This is a Haringey Council project, called Contact the Elderly, in which people with suitable premises offer a group (formed by the council) of isolated housebound elderly people, the chance to go to different people's houses for a Sunday after…

Comment by val November 2011 permalink
Mugged on Mount View Rd
Sorry about what happened, Dewet. Many years ago I had my shoulder bag snatched in Hornsey Road. (Unaware of the dangers of the streets, I had rashly offered to escort a nervous young lady to the end of her road!) We had a silent (yes, I also forgot…

Comment by val October 2011 permalink
Art & craft market at the sugar lounge
Sugar Lounge market a great idea. Are members of the public allowed to sell any kind of foodstuffs without some kind of licence? I used to sell all sorts of home-made foods at the monthly Edison Road market in Crouch End, but the regulations tighten…

Comment by val October 2011 permalink
BIrd feeder - invitation to treat?
When I put nigella seed in a feeder I was delighted to see two goldfinches - first time ever, and the only time - but by the next day a squirrel had bitten through and the seed was running out. I wrote to The Nuttery, the company that makes squirrel…

Comment by val October 2011 permalink
Am so annoyed with Haringey re: Visitor's Parking Permits! Grrr
Yes, it says "B" on mine. Hope you'll get your permits shortly.

Comment by val October 2011 permalink
Am so annoyed with Haringey re: Visitor's Parking Permits! Grrr
I received my visitors' parking permits after two and a half weeks. The quality seems to be the same and I got an extra one as they are in batches of four.

Comment by val September 2011 permalink
Dentists N4
About 40 years ago my husband and I used a dentist in Stroud Green Road, but were not too pleased with him. Someone who had lived in SG for a long time warned us that he was known as "the butcher of Stroud Green"! She recommended Mr Elder …

Comment by val September 2011 permalink
Spiders!
Arriving in Honduras from Costa Rica, my holiday room share found a tarantula had stowed away in her case. Shock horror! Screams! One brave woman (not me!) grabbed it with a towel and dropped it in a big flower pot, but I felt ashamed to be human wh…

Comment by val September 2011 permalink
Spiders!
This is the time of year that spiders take over. I often wave a stick in front of me when going down the garden, to break the webs. (I discovered a neighbour does the same thing.) For the first time this year I saw a huge spider running across my si…

Comment by val September 2011 permalink
Mice
Get a cat. One of my cats brings me mice (sometimes live) and baby rats (dead) as a gift.

Comment by val September 2011 permalink
Pooles Park Primary School - Garden Open Morning - 29th August
Oh, Miss Annie! Thank you. How out of touch can I get? I think that dated threads should be deleted. I never thought to look.

Comment by val September 2011 permalink
Pooles Park Primary School - Garden Open Morning - 29th August
I went there on 29th at about 11am, but the big gates were closed and not a soul to be seen. Just the gentle cackling of hens.

Comment by val September 2011 permalink
Mind in Haringey Relaunch Event
I went there for a head massage but person who does it was not there.

Comment by val September 2011 permalink
Am so annoyed with Haringey re: Visitor's Parking Permits! Grrr
The Consultation Officer at Haringey is now aware of all the problems I could think of regarding the new permits, as we had a long discussion. He said that Residents' Permits will automatically be renewed. The Visitors' Permits are the pro…

Comment by val September 2011 permalink
Vets' Bills can often be avoided
Cookie: Exactly! In fact I have two water dishes in the house, but they seem to prefer drinking out of the pond! Pet food, like veterinary medicines is big business. I remind myself that our cats are really carnivorous infantilised tigers, so they n…

Comment by val September 2011 permalink
Am so annoyed with Haringey re: Visitor's Parking Permits! Grrr
I spoke to the man in charge of this at the council and he is going to think about the problems involved. I still haven't had the letter.

Comment by val September 2011 permalink
Vets' Bills can often be avoided
Cookie: I already had some old packets of Cystemme which is the cure for women's cystitis. I diluted a packet in half a pint of warm water and when it was lukewarm, filled a 5ml pipette and got it down Mimi's throat in three squirts (givin…

Comment by val September 2011 permalink
Photography - Is anyone into it (in an amateur way) ?
I did once attend a Haringey adult education class on photography, but they don't run it now. I love taking photographs, especially portraits of interesting faces. Walking our local streets I often see beautiful, interesting or amusing things t…

Comment by val September 2011 permalink
Vets' Bills can often be avoided
Cookie: I found out how to cure my cat of cystitus, as I said when starting this thread. I found out by reading masses of articles until I found a clearly knowledgeable writer who wasn't trying to sell anything. Medicanimal sell veterinery medi…

Comment by val August 2011 permalink
Wildlife in Stroudgreen
The sqirrel-proof bird feeders with bars outside are excellent for seeds and peanuts and my local squirrels have finally given up trying to raid them. But I can't find a squirrel-proof nigella seed feeder, to attrack goldfinches. Two arrived th…

Comment by val August 2011 permalink
Advice/Help please - Suggestions for reading at a wedding
If your friends ahve a sense of humour, why not read Mr Casoubon's proposal to Dorothea in "Middlemarch"? Just joking! What about the poem "Why do I love thee?"

Comment by val August 2011 permalink
Vets' Bills can often be avoided
Jak: My sincere sympathy for your loss, but you showed your love by helping Charlie on his way. That beautiful poem brought tears to my eyes. Cookie: Could it have been the fur balls that were causing the problem?

Comment by val August 2011 permalink
Vets' Bills can often be avoided
Yes, Jak, Nick at Dragon is a really nice person, who spayed my cats, but the reception staff... I'm scared of them. By the way, did you know you can get Frontline half price online? I paid an inflated price at Dragon. Barebackreader, I unders…

Comment by val August 2011 permalink
Vets' Bills can often be avoided
Barebackreader: I have had 6 cats altogether and apart from their first vaccination, none has had any further jabs at all, and so far they have lived their full span without serious illness. Not all vets are in favour of regular jabs, as there is so…

Comment by val August 2011 permalink
New Visitors Start Here
Sometimes I wonder if there is some way we can thank/reward Andy for starting and maintaining this brilliant community wesite? Should there come a time when we make a contribution? I have lived in Lancaster Road for more than 40 years and have met m…

Comment by val August 2011 permalink
Tadpoles
Dorothy: Sympathy re mosquito bites. Maybe global warming accounts for their increase. I had a bite above my eye. Really swollen. Antihistamines.

Comment by val July 2011 permalink
Tadpoles
Ali, Thanks for happy news.

Comment by val July 2011 permalink
Tadpoles
Aha ADGS! Our frogs didn't start life that way, because we fed them. They only become cannibals if they don't have enough food.These are just common frogs, brownish with patterns or spots, and live on land but breed in water. They make a k…

Comment by val July 2011 permalink
Mangos
Those sweet, tasty Pakistani honey mangoes only come into our shops at this time of year. They seem less fibrous than others. Only buy ones with a smooth skin. I bought six perfect ones in a box at Walthamstow market for £3.50. Those I bought in SGR…

Comment by val June 2011 permalink
Tadpoles
Sincers, congratulations on the additions to your pond! Dorothy, Some tadpoles do not mature until conditions are right. But I was upset to hear what those nasty newts are doing to your baby frogs. I think my newts are too small to do that. We'…

Comment by val June 2011 permalink
Front Yard Sale
emine, Sorry, I have only just seen your message. Glad your plants doing well. Ming says she gives her takings to Red Cross. I keep my small profit! Thanks for offer of tomato plants. I wonder if they were the ones Ming had on display today? She did…

Comment by val June 2011 permalink
Tadpoles
Once they have lost their tails and feel ready, my baby frogs are jumping out of container. There will probably be a grand exodus when it rains.

Comment by val June 2011 permalink
Watch out, plant thieves about
I had a plant pot stolen - plant thrown on path - so next one is screwed down. Wonder if someone selling them at car boot sale?

Comment by val June 2011 permalink
Tadpoles
Well, at least Sparkyley won't have many slugs! I'm still feeding taddies on fishfood and boiled lettuce cubes. And today I was thrilled to see two baby frogs in my container. They are light brown. It's as if they changed overnight.

Comment by val June 2011 permalink
Tadpoles
I am happy to announce that all my spare tadpoles have now been re-homed! By the way, don't bother feeding them with liver. Although they ate a little meat, I found all the uneaten bits of liver in the bottom of container. But I have seen tadpo…

Comment by val May 2011 permalink
Tadpoles
Don't worry if tadpoles haven't got back legs yet. They all develop at different rates. Only about one third of mine have them. They won't try to get out of pond until they have four legs, anyway, but some bigger ones like basking in …

Comment by val May 2011 permalink
Tadpoles
It has been a great pleasure meeting so many local pond owners - and their offspring. So far seven people have helped me out, but I still have some tadpoles to spare. Some of them have back legs now.

Comment by val May 2011 permalink
The Park Theatre - Site Tours...
Information on the leaflet: There is a website www.parktheatre.co.uk and link can be followed to join facebook group to view photos and videos. There is also a daily blog: www.parktheatre.co.uk/blog. We can send an email to join mailing list and/o…

Comment by val May 2011 permalink

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