Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
I love Green Lanes because...
I have just had one of those afternoons where you realise that the lark is really on the wing, the snail on the thorn, God’s in his heaven and all really is right with the world.
My girlfriend makes a short film for the Straight8 Festival every year and today we attempted her fourth foray in to the media. I won’t go in to the structure of the competition but focus on the content of the film she made.
It is called ‘The Green Green Lanes of Home’ and she attempted to speak to approximately 80 people passing outside our front door over the course of a couple of hours. Just a face shot and a name and nationality check.
It was totally inspiring to see how so many people were up for it. Not only up for it but delighted to be asked. Maybe only three or four people declined and that politely. Everyone else was interested, fascinated and downright lovely, even our somewhat surly neighbour who, up to this point, has never been seen to smile. Surprising number of Hungarian people, Rumanian, Cypriot, Turkish, Kurdish, Uzbek, Iranian, French, Australian, Bulgarian, Eritrean, Irish, Brazilian, Turkmen, to name the ones I can remember.
If this is Cameron’s immigration terror, bring it on. I love Green Lanes and all thereon. At least until the next time some idiot throws his litter in the street.
If the film works out she will eventually post it on Youtube.
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Permalink Reply by Germana on
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Hi, I saw a couple of people filming yesterday afternoon on Green Lanes - I passed by with my family but they didn't stop me. I guess that could have been you. If you had, you could have added a British man, an Italian woman and a British-Italian child to the list!
Sounds great anyway...good luck! I totally agree with what you say too.
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Permalink Reply by Jimbo on
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I'm sure you would have made a charming addition to the piece. We did lose our bottle asking people a few times so maybe you passed by as we were plucking up some more courage. Either that or you looked threatening!
Joke.
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No I think you may have been distracted by an extremely well groomed Turkish (probably) lady in formal wear and shockingly high heels getting ready for a wedding or something like that....I couldn't compete with that....in fact I was also looking at her fantastic hairdo.
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Permalink Reply by wholepint on
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If there was a like button on here, I'd be clicking it. Would be great to see the film, please post it if/when it's online!
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Looking forward to seeing the film. Hope you'll invite all HoL users to a virtual gala premiere!
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Permalink Reply by Malcolm on
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Can I nominate this post for a "I can't believe it's not traffic/burglary/HMOs/parking/litter on HoL all the time" Award?
Love the post, can't wait to see the film. And I love Green Lanes too.
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Permalink Reply by JeremyS on
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Some people do tend to focus on those things, but my experience has been that the content is varied. I've found the bit of the site that shows the newest forum discussions (http://www.harringayonline.com/forum/topic/list?sort=mostRecentDisc...). If you look at that there are two posts on crime, one on litter out of the last 20. So plenty of varied content. I get the same impression from the last newsletter. I suppose it's down to us who use the site to pick up on the whole range of discussions and add upbeat material as well.
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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Even Jimbo mentions litter in his post :) but good point Jeremy.
I must admit I did much the same as you i.e. looked at latest again when I read that and noticed that most of the recent posts are about stuff like events coming up, funding streams, bee-keeping (2 posts!) and idle chit-chat . As I do a lot of the scraping of the site for the updates, I am quite aware of the balance of posts and overall posts are pretty varied, indeed weeks where we have more than a couple of crime related posts cause consternation at site admin central that the mail out will appear to be showing Harringay in too negative a light. We even started a discussion on it at one point (which I can't find the link to now)
Maybe what Malcolm means is those topics are the ones that get most people hot under the collar and get the most responses, but even the litter ones offer solutions (well done Osbawn) as well as highlighting problems and giving people a chance to vent their frustrations a little.
Anyway, not to take this further off topic, I'll stop musing.
Jimbo's post portrays Harringay in the positive light we prefer. Enough said.
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Permalink Reply by Alison P on
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Sounds great, would love to see it too.
My other half comes from the north west and grew up just off a road called Green Lane. It always makes me smile thinking of the difference between his Green Lane and ours - and I know both of us prefer ours by a million miles. Thanks for such a positive post - it is easy to take things for granted and just focus on the negatives.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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You forgot Russians. It's OK, I took a picture of some Russians on the tube on Sunday night and of course they got off at Turnpike Lane without removing their empty cans of Fosters. I don't think I deserve a Meldrew for this, in advance.
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