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APN's Facebook page given new life
Judi Evans has been doing fantastic work re-invigorating our Facebook page - do visit it! There are now links to it (and twitter) near the top of APN's home page. We are really grateful to her for taking this over.
Read more…Concert, Sale of Promises and Affordable Art Fair in aid of the HGSI
I am sure there must be many ex-students of the Hampstead Garden Suburb Institute in this neighbourhood – in recent years it was located conveniently near East Finchley underground station – who enjoyed their time there doing some of the very stimula
Wood Green's public garden space needs your help - free cocktails in return
The Green Rooms hotel in Station Road wants to convert its yard into a peaceful garden, a place where people can sit and lunch. but it needs some backing to action the plan. Help make Wood Green a better place for all!
Receive TWO COCKTAILS here in
Read more…Wood Green's new arts/hotel venture
Look out for this new enterprise in Wood Green's Station Road. The arts hotel Green Rooms will also have a pop-up restaurant, cafe. bar. entertainment. There'll also be an 'open for all' garden. See what The Standard said about it.
Woodberry Wetlands
The London Wildlife Trust has created a new wildlife haven in the East Reservoir at Stoke Newington. The reservoir was created by the New River Company nearly 200 years ago (fed by the New River), and has been closed to the public ever since - unti
Read more…New Forum Category: Sport
Stephen Middleton questioned - ages ago - why there was no category for Sport on our Forum page, and for some reason it never got added ... Well, it has now been created with this post, so do add your posts on local sporting activities, news, questio
Read more…Found - a maturish tabby and white cat
A tabby and white cat has been found in the lane next to 244 Alexandra Park Road - he is dead, and may have been run over. Jackie Baker (who lives further down Al.Pk.Rd) has kindly taken the cat in, and will take him to the Vet in the morning to chec
Read more…Robbery at Big Green Bookshop prompts flood of donations
Article by Simon Key (co-owner of the bookshop) on the Guardian website about the heartwarming response.
Petition to Save Trent Park
The beautiful Grade II listed mansion and heritage grounds at the heart of Trent Country Park (North London), used in WW2 by British Intelligence spies for its secret war against Nazi Germany, was recently purchased by the Berkeley Group and looks se
Garden Clearance
Somebody was asking for recommendations for a gardener to clear a back garden - maybe they deleted their post, because I can't find it now. Here's a suggestion anyway. Alfie Bines Gardens is a local firm which is widely used round here - you see thei
Read more…Haringey Council to divest a third of its pension funds from fossil fuels
It was decided by the Council on Thursday, not only to move a third of their pension funds to low-carbon investments, but to review annually the opportunities for them to divest further funds from fossil fuels. Apart from the purpose of reducing clim
Read more…Save Wolves Lane Garden and Community Centre
Wolves Lane Garden Centre is an amazing community resource in Wood Green which is threatened with closure by Haringey budget cuts. It provides education and training facilities for local schools (linked to the national curriculum) and for people with
Closure of ticket office at Alexandra Palace station - consultation ends midnight tomorrow
This and some other ticket offices on the Moorgate line are due to be closed by Govia Thameslink, which is more of a problem than the ongoing closures of underground ticket offices, partly because there is of course no general-purpose oyster card to
Read more…Lost Purse
- between Albert Road and Bounds Green - posted on Bowes and Bounds:
http://www.bowesandbounds.org/forum/topics/lost-purse?xg_source=activity
Read more…Offered for free - HP 22XL colour inkjet print cartridge
Unwanted - still in original packaging.
Read more…Wanted: a few thin parquet wood blocks
We need about 20 parquet blocks to finish our hall floor - it has been newly sanded, and looks lovely, apart from the patch where a previous owner pulled up some blocks to get at the pipes underneath. The blocks are barely 1cm thick - like other 1930
Read more…Vegan Oatcakes
These are said to be authentic Scottish, except that I've replaced the bacon fat with coconut oil (gives them a delicious faint taste of coconut). This recipe replaces the previous one that I posted here (much lighter and crunchier).
INGREDIENTS
- 4oz/
Fruit and Nut Oaties (sugar and salt-free)
INGREDIENTS
2oz/50g each chopped walnuts and halved dried cranberries 6oz/175g medium oatmeal 1tbs coconut oil 3tbs boiling water 1egg, beaten
METHOD
Mix dry ingredients; put oil in well in middle of dry ingredients, pour water onto it and st
Read more…Haringey to move one third of its pension fund to low carbon investments
Haringey Council's Pensions committee agreed last night to move one-third of their equity funds, representing over £100 million in assets, to a Low Carbon Fund. By undertaking this move, Haringey will be one of the first councils to actively reduce t
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