Friday Ketchup| 27th March 2026

featured

• Local cat sitter
• Local builder

local news And chaT

• Trees of Harringay: Harringay Hanami
• Donations to Hatzola following last night's arson attack
• Haringey Libraries Easter Weekend Closures
• LAST night's letter from The Friends of Finsbury Park to Haringey Council
• Hornsey Town Hall gets new owner
• ​​Shepherds Cot (Crouch End) - large permanent covered structure proposed
• Gardening For The Bees
• What to look for at Railway Fields in March: Noisy wrens, courting woodpeckers and the first bluebells

Air Quality

• Worse than traffic: How neighbouring councils are fixing grill smoke (and we aren't)
• 4x the WHO limit: The £3,500 solution to Green Lanes' air pollution
• Sharp intake of breath - some pretty big peaks this week - Pollution N4 wc 16 Mar

Events this weekend & next week 

• Mr Morski
• Book Launch: Gurnaik Johal - Saraswati. All Good Bookshop, Turnpike Lane
• Exhibition: The Wood Green All Sorts Club at Bruce Castle Museum
• Cinema Club for the over 60s: TWO PROSECUTORS; Thu 2 April; 2:30pm, Finsbury Park PictureHouse

For Sale

• Specialized Allez road bike for sale £200
• Genuine Leather Chesterfield Sofa £20 and leather arm chair £20 please see description
• Mud Kitchen

Share, Give, Ask

• WANTED: any plants, houseplants, garden bric-a-brac for community PLANT SALE
• Free loft insulation
• Wanted: old kitchen utensils for mud kitchen play space at Railway Fields
• Free sofa
• Free cardboard moving boxes

Local Elections and politics

• Haringey Green Party Manifesto 2026
• Haringey Active Travel + Clean Air Hustings

local history

• #Savethedate: The Return of The Haringey History Fair in 2026

New Photos

• Finsbury Park Empire, May 1914

New post in History Group

• Atmospheric Photo of Finsbury Park Pawnbroker's Shop

New comments 

• The Elms Hornsey - a Mysteriously Wealthy Tobacconist, a Hidden Russian Princess and a Jujitsu-Loving Victorian Publisher
• Barclays Finsbury Park (Exterior), 1962
• Topsfield Hall and a very narrow Tottenham Lane

A photo from the archive: Mayes Road Citadel and market, c1965

things to do in April and Beyond

• Exhibition: The Wood Green All Sorts Club at Bruce Castle Museum
• Waterlow Park Dog Show
• Nowruz Festival 2026: Exhibitions and trails celebrating Persian New Year
• Ma'Grass & The Delta Fires
• KAIYO with Joy Ellis and Adam Osmianski
• Síncopa Producciones Presents... Orlando Bonzi
• Tuggawar and the Warr
• Jamie Valentine "Hibernation" Book Launch
• A Photography Walk with Mike Segal at Coldfall Wood
• Jazz Juice (Live Music) - Free Entry
• Women in Jazz Media Presents... Tina Carr Quartet
• Toby Evans Septet
• Highgate Repair Café
• West African Djembe, Dundun and Dance Workshops
• Thrift Market and Tunes
• All Good Repair Café Turnpike Lane
• The Great Quernmore Road PLANT SALE 2026
• Broadwater Farm Repair Café
• *** Swimming Lessons for Children ****
• Charcoal + Chalk @ The Salisbury
• Muswell Hill Creatives Spring Makers Fair
• Muswell Hill Repair Café
• 50 Years of Rock Against Racism Live Music Event 25th April
• Jazz in the House: Rob Luft Quartet
• Bruce Castle Heritage Quarter Open Day

Now Booking at Jackson’s Lane 

May

• Period Drama by Olga Kaleta
• Nocturne by One more saga productions
• HeeraMandi by Insaan Arts in a collaboration with Amina Khayyam Dance Company
• The Comedy String Quartet by Graffiti Classics
• The Shedding by Elise Reine

June

• Edge Street Live Presents John Robb

listings

27 March

• Poetry & Poppadums with Murray Lachlan Young
• Mr Morski
• Book Launch: Gurnaik Johal - Saraswati. All Good Bookshop, Turnpike Lane

28 March

• Muswell Hill Repair Café
• Inverted Worlds Open Jam Session (Live Jazz and World Music)
• Pooches & Popcorn (dog-friendly movie night): Little Women
• Ransay and Company

01 April

• Foolish Dreamers

02 April

• Kate Williams Quartet