Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
All 3 Haringey paddling pools out of action
To save anyone else the same faff we’ve just encountered - please be aware that ALL THREE of Haringey’s paddling pools are currently out of order! All of them were due to open today - but none of them have (and Priory Park is out of action for a longer period). What with Clissold Park also being out of action for potentially the next 6 weeks, it’s not looking good for children’s water play in our local area. (My additional particular irritation is that when I checked on the pools and opening dates literally 2 days ago, they were all still anticipated as opening - hence my fruitless search for cooling down options today…!)
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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Reply from Councillor Marc Jenner in Harringay Ward:
"Cllr Erin Wolson, the Cabinet Member for Culture and Leisure, has just confirmed to me that the paddling pools will be reopened on Friday."
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These are the Tottenham ones at Bruce Castle and Lordship Rec (Liz)
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton
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Liz,
About 25 years ago we got a cheap fight to Venice in December. It was cold and magical, Uncrowded. Vivaldi in a beautiful hall. Bridges and alleys. We walked and walked and then took boats. Our eyes feasting on water and palaces and cloudless azure sky over the lagoon.
Our luck with the weather ran out on the last day when our flight was cancelled. Storms over the mountains and passengers needing overnight cheap hotels.
Some suspicious passengers wondered if the company had chosen to avoid two half full planes.All right. Safely scheduling paddling pools is a long way from safe aircraft. BUT...
Service Provider A announces opening date B.
Which slips to Opening date B[2] and Date [B3]. With no explanation?Nothing learned? Everyone loses.
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Permalink Reply by John Grover on
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Typical of Harringey Council not having pools open in a heatwave
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Might I suggest, John Grover, that over time there could be a reasonable doubt of anything being typical of Haringey Council.
I can tell you for sure that there's nothing typical of members of the Stanton family. And perhaps I can assume yours is much the same?
I'd be deeply worried if anyone saw some matching behaviour between, for example, me and most of the past leaders of Haringey Council. I don't even think that the Labour Party I was a member of for many decades, was much like Starmer's stumbling version of that Party.Is there an better, accurate, truthful way to judge the varying achievements, strengths and faults of our leading politicians and leading staff. Possibly not? Possibly we don't even care enough to bother?
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Apologies, John Grover. For clarity, I should have written:
Haringey borough's leading politicians and top staff.(There are enough judgements available on failed national leaders. I imagine also that drafts are in preparation for excoriating rightwing attacks on Prime Minister Burnham.)
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Permalink Reply by Jamie Harper on
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It's sensible to get onto the new councillors quickly to try to set our expectations, but they are not idiots. A school child understands the differing power structures of governments (political and bureaucratic).
I voted for fresh, new energy in the Council, not to have them listen to the same tired old voices boomersplaining their contributions to the failed council of the past. Let the new people and their new approaches have a go. I'm going to hope that they don't include alienating their colleagues and council officers by constantly and publicly undermining them. That alone will likely make them more productive than those who are still burdened by personal and political grievance. They will make mistakes but hopefully they will plough their own more bountiful furrow than the generation before them.
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