Oh happy memories (not). I had to go through their complaints process quite a few times in a very bad run of years. My favourite was when they booked two different scaffolding teams to turn up at the same time...! I found persevering with the compla…
Arriva Buses allow tins of paint: https://help.arrivabus.co.uk/faqs/using_bus/liquidSource]
"Jessica Birks, 20, said the driver of the bus would not let her travel on the number 51 service in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, because he said there was …
Radek Tober comes highly recommended from me. Used him quite a few times now for both small and middling sized jobs. The work is good, his team are usually very neat and tidy and he's always very happy for someone to come back to sharpen up any list…
The barrier layout has certainly seemed pretty poor. Myself, I quite like all the different work being done at once as although it makes the disruption much worse when it's on, that's better (in my view at least!) than having a protracted sequence o…
@krappyrubsnit I think Islington Council has promised me they'll fix that bit after the umpteenth time I raised it. It seems to good too be true... but it's there in black and white in an email saying it'll be scheduled for the 2016-17 financial yea…
A quick little thank you to everyone who has shared news in this thread in particular - lots of really interesting / useful stuff that I would have otherwise missed. Thanks @Arkady especially for helping keep us informed.
Any news on whether it's a 12 week delay as in the station entrance closure will then last for the same period of time, just starting 12 weeks later, or whether the closure may end up being for a shorter period?
Am looking to get an original cartoon framed, so happy to pay for more than a £5 clip frame off the internet but don't need a full John Jones masterpiece.
Any changes to the recommendations in the last six months or is Vintiners still my best bet?
Re. the chocolate connection - I rounded up a little of the story a while ago: http://www.markpack.org.uk/47695/george-osborne-barratt-stroud-green-road/
I think this is the person who has twice stopped me in the street. First time I thought it was probably a con but felt really bad afterwards doubting it and worried I'd not helped someone in genuine need. Hence second time I was rather pleased as it…
@Arkady Do you know if there are any plans for the Haringey side of Stroud Green Road right by the railway bridges running north? It's only a very thin stretch of ground between the bridges and the entrance to the Network Rail site but it's at the m…
Had the veggie sandwich today - lovely, as long as you like onions! It was a bit like an onion with a sandwich on the side...
Great shades on the lights by the way (made from paper machiere) and the chap there this morning was great to chat to. Hope…
@Arkady You may think that's more likely than a ghost, but I'm sticking with the ghost story.
After all, it's only a few hundred meters away from the last set of mystery leaks on Stroud Green Road that took months for Thames Water to track down and …
@NorthNineteen Now I know that I'm tempted to go in with something tiny, such as a paperclip or a postage stamp and ask them to frame it just so I can say I've got a John Jones frame :-)
The signs outside talk about also the space above being converted into flats so I guess that planning application got the go ahead (along with, as krappyrubsnif says, the ground floor being spruced up).
One belated thought based on my experience moderating other sites: getting the ground rules for moderation right is important, but just as important is people being willing to believe that when someone interprets them differently from their own view…
@Ali Re "On the Mayor "grand scandle" it is a shame we don't know what actual letters were written and have their been criminal charges brought over it ? She did get kicked out of Labour and is standing as an independant" - I think you're mixing…
Have you seen the double helix ones in Dover Ben? They were built to maximise the number of troops who could get from the top of the cliffs to the bottom in double-quick time.
@Misscara It's a bit like ministers and Whitehall departments - it's unreasonable to hold a minister to account for every single action of every single civil servant in their department, but if there's a sustained pattern of problems (or something m…
@Misscara My experience of reporting things to Haringey for fixing is that their management of contractors is frequently very poor - and when there's a sustained pattern like that it, it's fair to hold the council to account for the pattern.
The rou…