Friday Ketchup | 15 April 2016

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• Moving home? Require a damp survey? It is often highly recommended...
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• Yoga Parinama: Beginners Yoga, Pregnancy Yoga and new Vinyasa class Wednesdays on the Ladder

Thought for the week

The last person burned at the stake for heresy in England was Edward Wightman on April 11 1612.

(With thanks to Liz, hot(ish) from receiving her 1st class history degree from the OU.)

Wightman Road Closure 

• Wightman Bridge Update No. 3
• Wightman Road Saga on Ham & High Front Page
• Supporting Wightman Road Businesses
• Making Wightman Our Own (For 6 Months At Least)
• Letter from Network Rail Today
• Playing in street
• Wightman Road closes but opens a new road to cyclists to the city
• Gasping for air

local News & chat

• Electrification Works Start on the Barking to Gospel Oak Line
• Hornsey Rd 1000 home development - small update
• Had we but world enough and time this nimbyism were no crime
• Friends of Finsbury Park to Mount Legal Challenge to Wireless
• Pedestrian Knocked Down on Green Lanes
• Accident West Green Road
• We're looking for a school governor for Welbourne Primary in Tottenham Hale
• New Kid on the Sunday Roast Block in Harringay
• WEEKDAYS SPECIALS
• Light traffic at Ally Pally
• Serious Accident on Seven Sisters Road Brings Traffic to a Standstill
• Birds in the 'hood.
• Browsing this board - threaded style
• Disappearing Traffic
• Please help Disabled People and sign my petition
• Finsbury Park and 7Sisters stations among those at high flood risk
• Corbyn on the Rocks in Hornsey
• The Sunday Conundrum
• No Barking-Gospel Oak service this weekend
• New entry in your favourite Haringey skinhead blog

History

• Campsbourne Estate 1950/60
• image Alexandra Park Races Poster, 1960
• image Harringay - the Ideal Sports Centre with a Double Attraction
• image Old Smithy Crouch End

Entertainment/Leisure

• Finsbury Park Spring Jumble Trail Sat 24/04/16 more stalls needed on the ladder
• Improving the environment – Collage Arts exhibition at the Karamel restaurant, Coburg Road until 20th May
• Crouch End Open Studios 2016
• "The Divide" - a Call to Arms, and a Powerful Warning
• 'Lead, Water & Ink' Art Exhibition at Craving Coffee/Mill Co. Project - On Show until 1st May
• Jazz at The Salisbury Presents - Sunday the 17th of April - Alex Munk's Guitarmageddon + Michael De Souza Quintet
• 2nd Annual Haringey Children's Book Awards!
• Tai Chi Chuan - subsidised classes

Local trades & services

• Haynes Building Services - I'd highly recommend them on cost and reliability
• Excellent Cleaner is Looking for More Work
• Great Painter / Decorator Available
• Bathroom fitter wanted
• Need ladder for cat to get outside. Recommendation for Handyman/Carpenter
• baby sitter needed
• Various Services offered (Via TaskRabbit)
• looking for a reputable (and reasonable) builder to take off a chimney breast and other structural works
• Builder for Bifold/french doors

Pets

• Dog Factor 2016 - this Sunday in Finsbury Park
• Lost black cat - Woollaston Rd N4
• any help on getting my cats to get along.
• Found brindle dog - Clissold Park

Free Stuff 'n' Skills offered / Requested

• Free: compost bin
• Boxes for moving needed
• Bubble wrap!
• air conditioner for FREE
• Free - Single Bed, Ercol-style armchair, 4-drawer filing cabinet
• UNWANTED PAVING SLABS, ANY LYING AROUND THAT YOU'RE NOT USING?
• Succulent 'wall art' kit - free to good home
• Breeze Blocks Wanted
• FREE: Ikea Trofast Toy Storage Frame and Boxes
• Free : IKEA lack console table
• For free - Fire grate anyone
• Kitchen freebies
• Free items offered - Canon inks, Honeywell thermostat, etc
• Free Weber piano
• FREE – WOODEN SLAT BLINDS FOR A BAY WINDOW
• looking for free wood chippings

For Sale/wanted

• Bookcase for sale £65
• Anyone got a Woman's Bike for sale?
• For sale: recumbent exercise bike
• Dwell Dining table for sale - £100
• Brown leather sofa and footstool for sale - £500
• Typewriter at Charity Shop
• Pair of Springsteen tickets - Wembley, Sunday 5 June
• pack of clothes for a baby girl
• bouncy chair
• Parking permit near Effingham Road
• Baby Einstein Activity Centre - £10
• Looking for white cot/cot bed and bednext or next2me crib
• For sale fisher price Jumperoo
• VW Polo for sale - £450 ONO
• Two-seater sofa from Made.com For Sale £270
• 3 Chests of drawers for sale, £30, £80, £200
• Original Harringay Ladder Victorian Front Door For Sale
• is someone loking for a project?old electric bicycle - accept offer
• grass/edge trimmer- flymo power trim 500 xt - £15
• For sale: Edwardian oak fire surround and slate hearth
• The Great Masturbator. Dali. Poster £20
• CCM Roller skate size 6 for sale £45

volunteering and charitable giving

• Tree Planting Days in Finsbury Park - This Week - Volunteers Wanted
• £250k for community building projects

Council services/policy and local democracy

• Help save Finsbury Park from the Council
• Please sign the petition to save the little ones play area in Stationers Park!
• Parking permits prices in our borough - your opinion

Advice/questions

• Friends Groups and VAT: Any One Any Experience?
• Has your Teman bike been stolen recently?
• Help identifying two old prints, rescued from the bin.
• Confused
• Where to buy fresh curry leaves

Crime, scams and Crime prevention

• Big Green Bookshop robbed
• Attempted break-in in Stanhope Gardens N4

Accommodation Wanted/Offered

• Room to rent short term N15 £550

pictures

• Crescent moon
• Sunset 2016-04-09-1

Today

• The Art of Bots
• 7-Week Singing Technique Course
• Pilates on The Ladder
• New River Cleanup Planning Meeting
• Charity Quiz Evening
• LSO Community Gamelan concert
• Working Title Comedy returns to The Big Green Bookshop

saturday

• Pilates Mat class with Ellen (new)

sunday

• Dawn Chorus Walk at Railway Fields
• Compost Giveaway
• BEGINNERS YOGA COURSE SUNDAYS ON THE LADDER
• Friends of Lordship Rec Workday
• Dog Factor 2016
• Fungi Walk in Alexandra Park
• SALSA SUNDAYS IN SOUTHGATE

Monday

• Design a Forest Garden
• Mum and baby Pilates class
• Drop-in Watercolour Classes at Lordship Hub
• Exporting is Great: networking event for Export Week 2016
• Start the week with Slow Yoga in Turnpike Lane 5.30
• Pilates on The Ladder
• Tai Chi Qigong (Shibashi) Sessions
• Monday Vinyasa Flow Yoga on the ladder
• Bollywood Dancing with Stroud Green WI
• Start the week with Slow Yoga in Turnpike Lane 7.30
• Adult Ballet Classes at Jacksons Lane on Mondays

Tuesday

• Reminiscence Café at the Castle: Thank you Mr Hill
• Classical Ballet and Modern Dance Classes for Children Tuesdays
• Tuesday Hatha Yoga on the ladder
• New - Beginners Pilates Class on The Ladder
• Yoga: drop-in classes Tuesdays 19.45-21.00 suggested donation £5
• Adult Ballet Classes at NLPAC on Tuesdays

Wednesday

• Cat MoT Event
• (new) Kids Yoga with Jessica
• (new) Ballet and Modern Dance (3-5 year olds)
• Ballet and Modern Dance (6 - 13 year olds)
• (new) Tap Dance (for 6-13 year-olds)
• Smooth Jazz Lounge - Every Wednesday at Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Tottenham
• Enfield and Haringey London Assembly Hustings
• Pilates on The Ladder

thursday

• The *RETURN* of Crafty Crochet Corner, Knitter Natter Knitters, Super Sewers
• Classical Ballet and Modern Dance classes for children in Tottenham Thursdays
• Drop-in Life Drawing Classes at The Beehive Pub
• SAKE TASTING AT TOTTENHAM SOCIAL
• Jazz at Karamel: Otree Trio
• Mindfulness through meditation

Coming Up

• WAYS INTO NOVEL WRITING Haringey Literature Live
• Cat MoT Event
• 24 Hour Sponsored Hymnathon
• Free film: The Miracle Worker
• Celebrate World Book Night 2016 at the Library: Free books
• Tottenham NCT Nearly New Sale
• Finsbury Park Spring Jumble trail
• Ciranda Gallery at Jumble Trail
• Plantastic Cloning
• Haringey Independent Cinema presents: McLibel (UK, 1997)
• Jazz @ Karamel: Malcolm Earle Smith
• Free Karamel Kids: Chris Mayne's World of Magic
• Tottenham Fire Station Open Day celebrating 150 years
• Music, Movies, Murder and Mayhem walking tour
• Jazz @ Karamel: Mornington Lockett + Kate Williams
• Crouch End Open Studios 2016
• WRITING POETRY FROM MYTH Haringey Literature Live Courses
• Jazz at Karamel: Pavillion
• The Big Haringey Social
• Jazz at Karamel: Two of a Mind
• Karamel Kids: Free Family Fun Day
• Jazz at Karamel: Babelfish
• Riverfest
• Jazz at Karamel: Philip Clouts Quartet
• MORE ADVENTURES IN LIFE WRITING
• Jazz at Karamel: Solstice
• Jazz at Karamel: The Great Wee Band
• Jazz at Karamel:Amy Gamlen Quartet
• Mid-Summer Muswell
• Jazz at Karamel: Rob Townsend
• Jazz at Karamel: Still Waters
• Jazz at Karamel: Gary Willcox Quartet
• Jazz at Karamel: Stan Sulzmann, Jonathan Gee, Dave Whitford
• Jazz at Karamel: End of Season Jam
• Karamel Kids: Suddenly!