scended to all time lows of Maths(26th), Science(21st), Reading(23rd). Shameful!
Irish kids, meanwhile, kept their heads above water with Maths(20th), Science(15th), Reading(7th). Two cheers!
But maybe "their Poles are brighter than our Poles". In 2004, did Poland send all their brighter young families to Ireland rather than to Britain? Not so elementary, my dear Watson. A three-pipe problem, I'd say.
And has Ireland continued to export all her thickos to an unsuspecting Britain? (Mainly thick bankers kids) Or has Ireland continued to populate Britain's schools with thicko and untrained teachers? That may well be it.
The real thickos, of course, grow up to work for British media like the MIRROR (see Marek's link): "Within the UK, Scotland outperformed England at Maths and Reading but English pupils were ahead in Science. Wales lagged behind the rest of the UK in all three subjects."
No mention of Northern Ireland, then. Does the MIRROR know the difference between UK, Great Britain, Britain? And then a heady thought for OAE: has the Mirror declared Northern Ireland free of all ties to England - even educational ties? Three loud cheers from OAE. Shortlived, alas. The Guardian says Northern Ireland comes below Scotland and England, but above Wales. "I look up to him and HIM, but I look down on him. I hope Taffy knows his place."
I guess Northern Ireland Loyalists prefer to follow England and Scotland even when they're failing. Presumably, Nationalist and Republican kids follow their higher scoring siblings south of the border. Well, prove I'm wrong.
Indeed, my dear Holmes, it is more than a three-pipe problem. But here's another poser for you: If OECD had administered their PISA leaning test to the kids of Galileo and the kids of the Pope - who'd have come out on top?
Yes, my dear Watson, the ramifications go far beyond the simple minds of the Mirror's Red-Headed League. But how did the students do in Reading in Reading?
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etitive out there! If your contract with your current service provider has ended, or you don't have a contract with them at all, then you have the upper hand and can call the shots!
Last week, we negotiated our current broadband deal with Onetel, and changed our phone line rental from BT to Onetel as well. Before we changed anything, we spent a few hours doing a lot of number crunching, and checking terms and conditions of both our current service providers and possible new service providers. You need to make sure you don't get charged for leaving your current provider, or get tied into an unacceptable contract with a new provider.
We have been with Plusnet for 2 years now, and until last week, our phone line was through BT. We wanted broadband with unlimited monthly usage (we recently got NetFlix, so watch a lot of movies and TV shows online). So, we decided to look at other deals online, and found there were much better deals out there for broadband.
We called Onetel and told them we were going to change broadband service providers, and they asked why. We told them it was because we wanted unlimited monthly usage, and that there were better deals available from other providers, and that Onetel weren't offering unlimited broadband usage on their website. The best usage Onetel offer online at the moment is their fibre optic broadband with a 250MB usage limit, but this involves an engineer visiting your home and providing you with a new router & modem, and adding a faceplate to your existing phone line point. Their fibre optic broadband is also more expensive.
Onetel then told us that although they don't offer 'Unlimited' broadband usage as a standard package, they were willing to offer us, as a 'loyal customer', unlimited broadband if we also used Onetel for our phone line rental. We did all our calculations, and found that both the phone rental and broadband deal they offered ticked all our boxes.
So, we are now saving £10.00/month compared to what we were previously paying, and now with unlimited broadband service.…so we are happy with that :)
All in all it depends what you want from your service provider, i.e. how you use the internet, do you need calls included etc.
Definitely negotiate, compare deals, and as Yvonne said, the worst they can say is bye bye!
Katherine…
ee: Make Google your friend. Search: haringey regulatory committee.
Right Political Party?: I've been in the Labour Party over forty years. Many of our youngest members share the principles, values and passions which attracted me to join the party. (Though there are a few apparatchiks who appear to have no passion beyond burning personal ambition.) The party is happy to have a very wide range of members. While there are no compulsory beliefs there's a nice sensible paragraph on the back of the membership card. It has a tradition of grown-up debate. And good humour. (Tony Banks made a joke about not knowing whether to stand-up or kneel down when Blair made a speech at Party Conference. They made him a Lord.)
Demob Happy? This is Hugh's little joke suggesting I've got more critical lately. It's not true. As you know very well, when I disagree with something I speak up strongly.
Gratuitously Rude? This seems an odd criticism coming from someone like you who's fond of using the word "corrupt" to describe politicians. Claire Kober is not corrupt of course. Just almost entirely unsuited to be Leader of Haringey. For the record, I didn't disagree with her before May 2006 for the simple reason that before then she wasn't a councillor and I'd never heard of her. She became Chief Whip and did a reasonably adequate job. (Although her predecessors included ex-councillors Richard Reynolds and Alan Dobbie - who both defected to the Tories - so the bar wasn't set terribly high.)
Cllr Kober became Leader in November 2008 after the death of Peter Connelly and when George Meehan stepped down. As I've written before, at the time I thought Claire was rather brave. I and other people offered her our support and advice. It fact she asked my advice when dealing with Cllr Charles Adje and withdrawal of the Labour whip. (Unfortunately temporary.) However, her unfitness for the post slowly became obvious. If I had any remaining doubts, the riot and looting in Tottenham and Wood Green last year made it crystal clear. Cometh the hour faileth the leader.
The Planning Service. The usual drill for a council cock-up is to blame someone who recently left. (Google: 'Prepare three envelopes'.) But perhaps this time one or more staff in the service will be told-off. A severe: "Tut-tut". Or perhaps even: "Tut-Tut-Tut". If the sanctions are more serious you can be certain it will not be because of the mistake with the figures. What may not be tolerated is public embarrassment for the Dear Leader. Someone gave the empress an invisible suit.…
Added by Alan Stanton at 12:20 on November 23, 2012
aces inspired by Robert Hart's vision of 'new city forests'
The gardens were developed within the Naturewise project, founded in 1990 in Islington. Co-originator Marek Lubelsky explained; “We wanted to show that local people could take control of inner city land, and we believed that we should have informed choices about how to use it.”
Naturewise set up the first urban community forest garden in the UK. Situated on a steeply banked, south facing, one fifth of an acre of Council owned land in Crouch Hill. Surrounded on three sides by blocks of flats, and on the north side by a tarmacked football pitch where local youth congregate, it was highly exposed to vandalism as well as having a sub-soil consisting largely of rubble and waste.
In 1995 work began on a second forest garden, this time in the grounds of nearby Margaret MacMillan Day Nursery, a kindergarten providing pre-school care to over 200 small children from a very wide social, cultural and ethnic mix.
Whilst this second forest garden is still going strong, the original forest garden has not fared so well. Left largely to fend for itself against the ravages of stray dogs and footballs, the site has developed in a wilder, untamed direction – more urban forest than forest garden – still a valuable green space with all sorts of benefits for people and wildlife, but no longer the productive edible landscape originally envisaged.
Naturewise continue to run regular forest garden volunteer days, permaculture courses and woodland weekends. Co-founder Alpay Torgut has now set up West Wales Naturewise, who have created yet another forest garden, as well as forging links with the burgeoning Transition Towns movement. For more information see www.naturewise.org.uk.
For photos from Naturewise (and other London based Permaculture projects), see http://www.flickr.com/photos/naturewise/.
There is also a Naturewise Yahoo Group.
(This post was adapted in it's entirety from an article by Graham Burnett which originally appeared in Permaculture Activist 69, Autumn 2008. The full article and the full set of pictures can be seen on the Naturewise website.)…
ee months of DIY, followed by a party and an opening day that we'll never forget, despite it being a bit of a blur now. Much like the proud parents we see at blend every day, we sometimes read back through our blog, look at the old pictures to see how far we've come since the early days of our "baby". Every mention on Harringay Online fills us with new excitement and spurs us on to work even harder.
Upon the opening followed six months of finding our feet and getting organised, amidst an ever growing crowd of blend regulars, who took an active interest in our progress. Meanwhile, the blend family grew steadily, as our wonderful team found us one by one and took on the task of keeping blend running every day. A big thanks to the whole team at his point!
There are now regular events at blend, such as the NCTea on Mondays from 11am to 1pm, the little folk singing group with Amy Pryor on Wednesdays at 10:30 am, the computer clinic with Marek on Fridays at 4:30pm. You can get your vegetable bag delivered to blend on Thursdays with Crop Drop and there is talk of a book club and knitting groups. We're becoming popular as a backdrop for short films and on April 2nd, blend will see its first ever Lindy Hop night.
It has to be mentioned that our gallery space in the back has seen some amazing and much talked-about works by local artists already and the monthly exhibition slots are booked out a year in advance at this point. It is truly inspiring to see how much talent there is around the Gardens, Lanes and Ladder. We have also teamed up with a group of artists to bring you a preview of the Harringay branch of Crouch End Open Studios in May this year.
Autumn 2013 saw the first few birthday parties at blend, which prompted us to consider opening in the evenings. We're not just massively into coffee, we also like a well-made cocktail and a nice glass of wine, so in came the wine fridge, the shakers and some practice rounds of twisting limes and burning oranges. We had another party to test the vibe, and then kicked off blend at night. Just like we thought, our favourite drinks (the Espresso Martini and the Last Word in particular), soon became popular with the Harringay night owls, too.
So as we came into 2014 there was one more thing to do. Night owls need food, so it is with huge excitement that we announce today our first dinner menu, to be served from Saturday, March 1st onwards. Once again, we are trying to bring some of our favourites to Green Lanes, and to keep it fresh, we will introduce seasonal changes every month. It feels like May 2013 all over again, we're excited and a little nervous, but most of all we look forward to welcoming you at blend to eat, drink, hang out and, well, blend.
Food menu March
THANK YOU HARRINGAY!
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Added by Linda Zubairi at 13:36 on February 27, 2014
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