Try British Heart Foundation? They collect, but I don't know if they disconnect. Gas disconnection is easy and DIYable, electrical may need a professional if it's wired into the mains rather than just has a plug which routes through a fused switch.
Warning for drivers (whether stallholders or shoppers): there's a music festival in Finsbury Park tomorrow, so the Sunday event parking restrictions - noon-4.30pm - will apply.
I've just left the market, and it looks to be going very well! Lots of people, interesting stalls, fabulously well-filled bacon pitta breads. There will be coffee about noon, the chap had some technical issues with his machine... Excellent addition …
Someone on HoL has created a petition about the proposed waste charges: the link is in the thread, and you need to scroll to the end of the next page on the petition site to register your signature : http://www.harringayonline.com/forum/topics/petit…
Scrap metal vans still roam the streets round here, I'm surprised they haven't taken that washing machine. When I had a new cooker installed last September, I put the old one outside - still within my property's boundaries, but visible from the stre…
That's a bit harsh - it's an A-level project. The OP has to start somewhere, so why not here? Maybe he/she is soliciting other views from other local forums. Sure, we're SG, but I see us as part of the wider Finsbury Park area. When people ask me wh…
Well, nappies are a force of their own. Better in the bin than down the loo - the shared sewerage outflow in my last place backed up because of someone flushing nappies and that was deeply horrible to deal with! So if you can shoehorn in another bin…
Lovely coffee & slice of excellent blueberry cake on Friday lunchtime. Though I'd have liked the cash-only notice to be on the door rather than on the coffee machine, because I didn't see it & I didn't have enough cash! Not a big problem, wi…
There's information on loading restrictions & signs here: http://www.trafficsignsandmeanings.co.uk/what-are-different-types-loading-restrictions.html.
The most annoying ticket I ever got was in Islington. I pulled into a shared-use red-route ba…