Community News, Issues, Chat & Information - Harringay online2024-03-28T12:05:04Zhttps://harringayonline.com/forum/categories/community-news-issues-chat-information/listForCategory?categoryId=844301%3ACategory%3A1903&feed=yes&xn_auth=noSigns of Spring: the return of the hairy footed flower beestag:harringayonline.com,2024-03-28:844301:Topic:15688162024-03-28T11:11:09.794ZLizhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/Liz
<p>One of the insects I look for as soon as the flowers begin to bloom is the lovely little hairy footed flower bees.</p>
<p>In a garden on the Ladder I spent time watching a female, the only all black bee, and the ginger coloured male enjoying rosemary and primula plants. …<a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12404958473?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12404958473?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="250"></img></a></p>
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<p>One of the insects I look for as soon as the flowers begin to bloom is the lovely little hairy footed flower bees.</p>
<p>In a garden on the Ladder I spent time watching a female, the only all black bee, and the ginger coloured male enjoying rosemary and primula plants. <a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12404958473?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12404958473?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="250" class="align-center"/></a></p>
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<p>Thank you everyone who plants a few flowers in their front garden from the bees and from me!</p> Signs of Spring: wrens nestingtag:harringayonline.com,2024-03-27:844301:Topic:15688112024-03-27T15:32:54.643ZLizhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/Liz
<p>It's not hard to spot the nesting birds around Harringay at the moment, there's a marvellous magpie nest in one of the trees in my street, you can't miss its big dome shape which I spent several minutes watching two magpies constructing. I've also seen signs of sparrows in a hedge on my street.</p>
<p>Today as I was leaving Railway Fields, I noticed that a wren was hard at work building a nest in the corner of a covered balcony that overlooks Railway Fields. It was quite a distance from me…</p>
<p>It's not hard to spot the nesting birds around Harringay at the moment, there's a marvellous magpie nest in one of the trees in my street, you can't miss its big dome shape which I spent several minutes watching two magpies constructing. I've also seen signs of sparrows in a hedge on my street.</p>
<p>Today as I was leaving Railway Fields, I noticed that a wren was hard at work building a nest in the corner of a covered balcony that overlooks Railway Fields. It was quite a distance from me so I've annotated the photos so that you can spot both the bird and the nest. </p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12404716471?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12404716471?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="350" class="align-center"/></a>It is the male wren that is the nest builder. He will construct up to a dozen nests and then try to persuade a female that he has mated with to take up residence. So a nest may not even get used if a female decides its not a des res. If, however, she likes it she will line it with moss, feathers and leaves and lay her eggs. I'm not sure (and willing to be corrected) but it looks to me like this wren has some lining material in her mouth and is getting ready to move in.</p>
<p>Although the male is polygamous and only the female incubates, he will help to feed the chicks. At this time of year, he is also fiercely territorial. His astonishingly loud song will signal his presence. Despite his tiny size, weighing about the same as a pound coin, he has a big voice. <span>In fact, per unit weight, a wren sings at ten times the power of a crowing cockerel!</span></p> Haringey Council overturn the Licensing Authority decision concerning Krankbrothers in Finsbury Parktag:harringayonline.com,2024-03-25:844301:Topic:15686862024-03-25T17:20:19.122ZKonrad Bhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/KonradBorowski
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As previously reported the Council’s Licensing Sub-Committee refused Krankbrothers application of an additional Friday to be tacked on to an existing Saturday and Sunday event. …</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As previously reported the Council’s Licensing Sub-Committee refused Krankbrothers application of an additional Friday to be tacked on to an existing Saturday and Sunday event. </span></p>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Krankbrothers submitted an appeal to the Magistrates Court. I commented that "This throws up an interesting situation for the Council. Presumably the Council will have to support the decision of the Licensing Sub-Committee in court, yet as we all know the Council as park landlord encourage the staging of these events so it might not be completely supportive of the decision.”</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Well, the Council didn’t uphold the decision of the Licensing Sub-Committee. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The matter didn’t even get as far as the court. The Council just overturned the decision and instead allowed the event to take place on the additional Friday from 16:30 to 21:30 and to use a single stage only. It is said that these measures address the Licensing Sub-Committee concerns. Text of email from Council attached.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">However the Licensing Sub-Committee in making the original decision were quite clear that <u>"</u><u>In the Committee’s view there were no appropriate conditions that it could impose that would mitigate the nuisance impact on residents of having two 3 day weekend events as opposed to one 3 day weekend of event and one 2 day weekend event, as currently licensed.</u><font face="ArialMT"><u>”</u> (Residents letter - 28 February).</font></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="ArialMT">This situation just illustrates how ridiculous it is that Haringey Council, as park landlord in receipt of income from events, is also the Licensing Authority which is meant to regulate licensable activities. </font></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="ArialMT">Anyway questions have been asked about the decision making process - watch this space.</font></span></div> Demand for local fascists exceeds supply!tag:harringayonline.com,2024-03-21:844301:Topic:15684972024-03-21T10:53:11.741ZGordon Farcashttps://harringayonline.com/profile/GordonFarcas
<p>Recent weeks have seen the proliferation of fly posting by the North London 'Anti-fascist' Network which I assume to be a little tubby pierced fellow spending too much time on the internet in his Mum's spare bedroom in Muswell Hill.</p>
<p>Messages include: stop the 'fascists', get Israel out of London, all cops are b***ards, evil capitalists are responsoble for the ills of the world etc etc etc</p>
<p>This perplexes me because I have lived here my whole life, which is now a fair old stint,…</p>
<p>Recent weeks have seen the proliferation of fly posting by the North London 'Anti-fascist' Network which I assume to be a little tubby pierced fellow spending too much time on the internet in his Mum's spare bedroom in Muswell Hill.</p>
<p>Messages include: stop the 'fascists', get Israel out of London, all cops are b***ards, evil capitalists are responsoble for the ills of the world etc etc etc</p>
<p>This perplexes me because I have lived here my whole life, which is now a fair old stint, and I have never seen anyone in jackboots marching around calling for the end of democracy or harassing homosexuals, gypsies, foreigners or the disabled. In fact, I've enjoyed living in one of the most tolerant and inclusive cities in the world and in one of the most diverse borough's within that city.</p>
<p>This begs the question of who and where are these 'fascists' that have so vexed the 'anti-fascists'? Are there any or is it just a youthful fantasy of some Walter Mitty types fighting an imaginary wars against imaginary villains?</p>
<p>Nevertheless, I was amused to see how simply a display of patriotism has negated the flyposted messages of hate opposite the Salisbury pub today. Well done to the anti 'anti-fascist' wags resposnsible.</p> Signs of Spring: blackthorn blossom at Railway Fieldstag:harringayonline.com,2024-03-20:844301:Topic:15683852024-03-20T14:28:52.263ZLizhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/Liz
<p>The dark-hued branches of blackthorn have finally started to bloom. Blackthorn is unusual in that the flowers appear before the leaves.</p>
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<p>Blackthorn is, of course, known for its purple-hued fruits called sloes.</p>
<p>Look for it in Railway Fields and other woodland or shrubland areas.…</p>
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<p>The dark-hued branches of blackthorn have finally started to bloom. Blackthorn is unusual in that the flowers appear before the leaves.</p>
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<p>Blackthorn is, of course, known for its purple-hued fruits called sloes.</p>
<p>Look for it in Railway Fields and other woodland or shrubland areas.</p>
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<p>Just a week after the <a href="https://harringayonline.com/forum/topics/trees-of-harringay-cherry-blossom-time-blossomwatch" rel="noopener" target="_blank">pink (and pinky white) blossom</a> of the cherry trees, the white froth of ornamental pear trees is erupting along Green Lanes.</p>
<p>Here's one by Railway Fields <br></br><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12402811680?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12402811680?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="350"></img></a> I particularly like the pairs of…</p>
<p>Just a week after the <a href="https://harringayonline.com/forum/topics/trees-of-harringay-cherry-blossom-time-blossomwatch" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pink (and pinky white) blossom</a> of the cherry trees, the white froth of ornamental pear trees is erupting along Green Lanes.</p>
<p>Here's one by Railway Fields <br/><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12402811680?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12402811680?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="350" class="align-center"/></a> I particularly like the pairs of trees at the entrance to a couple of the Gardens roads</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Chesterfield Gardens</em></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>Kimberley Gardens</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Hope you are enjoying hanami on your street </span></p> Haringey consultation on small community green spacestag:harringayonline.com,2024-03-18:844301:Topic:15682762024-03-18T15:03:44.658ZHoL Site Adminhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/SiteAdmin
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<p></p> Haringey toilet iniative consultationtag:harringayonline.com,2024-03-18:844301:Topic:15679402024-03-18T10:37:26.142ZCowperhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/Cowper
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<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>There is a group in the Borough called Loos 4 Haringey that is working with the Council to help it develop a better public toilet strategy. If you could please fill in the survery, that would be great. It only takes a few minutes. The more we get, that better positioned we are to get a new strategy and better public…</p>
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<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>There is a group in the Borough called Loos 4 Haringey that is working with the Council to help it develop a better public toilet strategy. If you could please fill in the survery, that would be great. It only takes a few minutes. The more we get, that better positioned we are to get a new strategy and better public toilets. The consultation is open until April 29th. </p>
<p>Here is the link.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.haringey.gov.uk/parking-roads-and-travel/roads-and-streets/locations-public-toilets/haringey-public-toilets-strategy-consultation-2024">https://www.haringey.gov.uk/parking-roads-and-travel/roads-and-streets/locations-public-toilets/haringey-public-toilets-strategy-consultation-2024</a></p>
<p>There is a QR code in the attached leaflet that you can use to get to the survey as well.</p>
<p>Thanks for your help. </p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>James Cowling</p>
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<p></p> Haringey to be Borough of Culture 2027tag:harringayonline.com,2024-03-16:844301:Topic:15680302024-03-16T15:37:16.846ZElizabethhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/ElizabethEnnis
<p>For more info, see:…</p>
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<p>For more info, see:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.timeout.com/london/news/londons-boroughs-of-culture-for-2025-and-2027-have-been-revealed-031224?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=null&fbclid=IwAR39x-FkSb7Bajpw4oJr0vnceHAtGXqooVwnF80B293GSOfHwPeCP_pf9Rw" target="_self">www.timeout.com/london/news/londons-boroughs-of-culture-for-2025-and-2027-have-been-revealed-031224?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=null&fbclid=IwAR39x-FkSb7Bajpw4oJr0vnceHAtGXqooVwnF80B293GSOfHwPeCP_pf9Rw</a></p>
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<p></p> Sainsbury's is Cash Only todaytag:harringayonline.com,2024-03-16:844301:Topic:15681092024-03-16T14:38:17.391Zadamvietnamhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/adamvietnam
<p>As per :</p>
<p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68584235">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68584235</a></p>
<p>And the cash machine at Sainsbury's isn't working either.</p>
<p>As per :</p>
<p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68584235">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68584235</a></p>
<p>And the cash machine at Sainsbury's isn't working either.</p>