Friday Ketchup | 24th December 2021

Featured

• Strong tree dressing game in Cavendish Road
• A couple of Ladder Christmas houses that raised a smile
• South Harringay ADVENTure Trail in The Metro

local news, chat and questions

• Dangerous Wightman Road?
• Strange sighting
• Taco House Opening soon....
• Very old Harringay-ite new to Harringay Online
• Local heroine
• The people with the boom box outside Rowley Gardens… what’s the deal?
• Getting out into Nature is good for your mental health (so join us at St Ann's hospital in the New Year)
• Wood burners "cause nearly half of urban air pollution cancer risk" - new study
• Railway Fields closes for the holidays on 22nd December until 4th January (but you can still try the Winter Challenge)
• Food Bank taking a break
• Has anyone seen anything?!

Questions

• Haringey Planning Permission for a side extension
• Can anyone decode the handwriting for this single word?

Volunteering and Charitable Giving

• Help children under 5 living in temporary accommodation impacted by Covid

Crime, scams and policing

• Sadiq in Haringey to visit new police town centre team

Free stuff wanted /offered

• Free Gardening Equipment - Short Irrigation Soak hose & Propagator Seed Tray Lids
• Free decorating materials - Polyfiller, Wall Tile Adhesive & White Spirit
• Free Blum soft close drawer things
• Free round Ikea table
• Guinea pig wheel and edible Hay ‘n’ Hide house
• Bugaboo Bee- Free (lots of wear, good for parts?)

local tradespeople, services and businesses

• builder / handyman needed
• Recommendation for builder
• Hang door to bedroom
• Front garden wall recommendations please
• Another recommendation for Efrem, FM Electrical & Fire Alarm Services Ltd

For Sale/want to buy

• Does anyone have an antigen (lateral flow) fit-to-fly test I can buy off them?
• Chicco Balloon baby bouncer - £20
• For Sale - Pine bookcase with drawers
• French style coffee table for sale

local history 

• Alfred Braddock – a commercial photographic surveyor and recorder of Victorian Hornsey
• A Green Lanes survival from the 1940s or even earlier
• Frederick Dean - Oakfield Road

The Conversation Continues

• Ever Ready Factory
• The Starlight Dance - Late Fifties Glamour at the Arena
• Crouch End Hill 1890 to 1965 - a Story in Pictures
• Pietro Pazzi's Edwardian Restaurant in Finsbury Park

A Photo from the Archive

• Christmas Circus Spectators at Harringay December 23 1947

things to do

• South Harringay School ADVENTure Trail - 2 and a half weeks in
• EXHIBITION: Weaving Tales of Resilience
• A Circus Carol
• Creative Writing Foundation Pt 1 - Get into Creative Writing!
• Prioritise Your Writing and finish your work-in-progress!
• NEW! Life Writing and Memoir Workshop - Evenings
• Free Mindfulness Taster Session | Live Online
• Finding the Poem Set 3 - one of a series of poetry workshops
• 8 Week Mindfulness For Stress Reduction Course - Starts 19 Jan
• NEW! Flash Fiction Workout - write short, short stories.

Listings

25th December

• Open Air Eucharist on Christmas Day