Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Don't Blame the Council, it's China's Fault

You may have noticed a certain lack of progress with finishing the works on Green Lanes. Well, this time round we can't look to blame thee Council or TfL. Apparently, we're waiting for a shipment of granite to arrive from China and it's being repeatedly delayed.

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Permalink Reply by matt on June 5, 2014 at 12:49

A load of bollard!

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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on June 5, 2014 at 13:27

I hate that it takes bollards to stop people basically DRIVING on the footpath. Remember back in NZ you can be done for Dangerous Driving (a serious crime) if you park on the other side of the road because the police are allowed to infer that you drove there... on the wrong side of the road, which is dangerous.

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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on June 5, 2014 at 14:20

You guys dumb or something? You've spent the past month moaning about China's cheapo granite. Now just why do you think the Koberistas ordered Tiananmen-standard tank-bearing granite for delivery to their plazas, squares and piazzas just after their famous victory. Just take a look at the photos from Tiananmen 25 years ago today: lots of bodies and bicycles nicely mangled - but China's granite withstood it all.

Meanwhile, rather than pointless bollards on our Wightman pavements, can I have some decorative Chinese chicanes of razor wire to keep the damned cyclists off my pedestrian patch?

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Permalink Reply by Ruth on June 5, 2014 at 19:24

Actually OAE, hate to tell you but some of that Beijing granite didn't survive the tanks and the burning barricades of buses. I went around the city in the immediate aftermath, there was a lot of damage to pavements and roads.

Call me touchy if you like, and having no sense of humour, but you writing here about 'bodies and bicycles being nicely mangled' upsets me. Seeing bloodied and beaten and mangled young people on June 3rd/4th firsthand is something I wont ever forget.

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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on June 5, 2014 at 22:39

Ruth, I used the phrase "lots of bodies and bicycles nicely mangled" in the hope that nobody else would ever forget it. It's the banality of death and bicycles I was getting at, not testing your sense of humour. I'm not even sure Beijing paviours used Chinese granite back then: maybe they found imported York sandstone suited the Square better than the local article.

But if you let us know where else in the world your presence coincided with atrocity, I'll tread more softly on your nightmares in future. I'm not deliberately trying to be ruthless.

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Permalink Reply by Ruth on June 5, 2014 at 22:47

I'm leading a quiet life now OAE here in Harringay….. just the occasional spat here on HoL about UKIP and rubbish, litter and pavements now and then so you should be ok.

Carry on being your critical self please about the daft /unfair things that happen here. We're still allowed that, to be critical, and I do fully uphold our freedom of speech, it's something positive.

All the best.