Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Second prisoner released incorrectly found in Finsbury Park…again
The reporter mentions he was seen IN the park last night around 6.30pm but was caught on what looks to be Blackstock Road outside the college…lovely.
https://news.sky.com/story/algerian-sex-offender-mistakenly-release...
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Permalink Reply by Brian Mahoney on
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That's quite a coincidence. Are there unique pull factors in Finsbury Park?
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton
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Sorry to be a bit slow. But I don't see what Ozbawn and others are doing there.
In fact, for a long time I've failed to see what this expression means. So can I please ask for a little help to end my embarrassment not getting the meaning of the subtle and clever: jokes? / puns? / knowing virtual taps on the side of the nose?
I do realise that I'm the problem, as a refugee from last mid-century. I'm also worried that as well as learning English usage I need to keep up to date so the current Tory Government doesn't return me to my original century.
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I have it on good authority that Ozbawn was being disparaging about the cafe. He does that. Often.
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Ah. Definitely subtle in-date comment. But is not the custom to post on FinzCaffView.com? Asking for a time traveling friend.
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No hidden meaning. The cafe is a shambles and is very unlikely to have been one of the 'pull factors' that Brian M mentions.
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"Shambles" - one of those fascinating multi-meaning English words. (Decades ago I liked the one in York.) I also tend to appreciate small business style cafes. Probably for the same reasons Clive Carter describes below. Where a few people are trying on a small scale, to offer their customers a personally-run and unique welcoming place with hand-prepared food and drink, in an informal sociable setting.
Something you're not keen on at the Lakeside, Ozbawn? Try a friendly word with the manager?
Otherwise isn't Clive accurate with most of the points he makes?
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter
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The cafe is a shambles
That was unfair. The council could do more to help small businesses throughout Haringey. However, in any conflict between the interests of a small business and big business, whenever there is a choice to made, the Councillor Ahmet-led council will favour the bigger business.
In my view it was a mistake for Cllr Ahmet to stand alongside the Festival Republic promoter of a Licensable activity, for a photo taken by a council photographer for publication in council media.
I'm not aware the council leader promotes any other Licensable Activity apart from Festival Republic interests. It showed poor judgement. If there is a another crushing incident, it could count against the council. Let alone a crush involving multiple deaths as happened at the Houston Astrodome, with Festival Republic's monopolistic parent company, Live Nation.
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The Park, the Lakeside Cafe, the Council Leader and Grime:
I have no financial interest in Finsbury Park’s lake-side cafe, but I would note the following:
The cafe is open year round, including over the winter. It provides a year-round service to park visitors; it employs staff year-round and presumably pays taxes year-round.
The Events Team and their employer (Haringey Council) seem to have little regard for this long-term lessee. The careless council tends to damage the cafe business by their hires of big swathes of our park over the summer (only) to their favoured corporate clients.
Their normal custom at the lakeside cafe is impacted by:
(a) the sound of greatly amplified Event noise; and by
(b) the sight of the nearby steel wall and outer wall; the numerous security guards; the dogs of the security guard in the “moat” and the police patrols. It’s not conducive to a relaxing sit-down by the ordinary public and a conversion at the cafe.
By contrast, at the height of summer the council’s big clients benefit from their thirsty captive customers in need of refreshments, inside the steel perimeter wall.
(As an aside, the park hire fee is based on ticket sales. The council, ever the poor negotiator, appear to miss out on any cut of the likely lucrative concession charges that the promoter will levy on the numerous food and drink outlets. These outlets will serve thousands or 10s of thousands of ticket-holders each day inside the wall. The Events Team are likely to be aware of this).
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The current council leader is long-time fan of these Events in Finsbury Park and particularly of Grime.
Cllr Peray Ahmet has previously, publicly and approvingly, drawn attention on Twitter to an Independent article by Poppie Platt about Grime.
Cllr Ahmet is naturally entitled to her personal and/or political tastes in music. However, in my view, she is not entitled to inflict them on thousands of residents in 3 (three) Boroughs in north London.
Even those residents who—like Councillor Ahmet—are fans of Grime, may not necessarily want to hear Grime at a given moment. For example, some residents work shifts and may be trying to sleep during the council’s imposition of noise. Such as nurses: I heard that personally from a shift-working ICU nurse living in Hackney. Does the council care?
Cllr Ahmet appears to have been at least partly inspired by the quasi-political nature of Grime and this may have led to the council’s PR slogan, “the rebel Borough”.
Back at the cafe during the summer, not all the patrons trying to converse necessarily want to hear the council leader’s music tastes rammed down their lug-holes!
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Permalink Reply by tigha on
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Maybe they are keen baseball players, as the pitch seems to draw a lot of people
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