Friday Ketchup | 6th March 2026

featured

• Local builder

local news And chaT

• W5 bus - curtailed route
• Monitoring of traffic on Wightman Road
• Air pollution - N4 1BA - wc 23 Feb
• To all our Welsh neighbours
• What's springing up in your garden this week?
• What to look for at Railway Fields in March: Frogs and newts return to the pond
• Water quality in the Moselle - it's not just misconnections
• Saharan Dust contributes to "Moderate" Air Pollution forecast from Imperial College for Thursday night and Friday 6th March

Local Elections and National Politics

• Getting climate and environment issues into local election debate
• ‘The Haringey Toilet Strategy’
• ‘FROM THE LEADER'
• "Dirty Business" - Channel 4 TV Drama. What are the the short & longer term political implications?
• Yesterday I heard the news, Oh Boy. Keir Starmer said he's fighting on

Trades and services

• Recommending an electrician

Events this weekend & next week or two

• Gnawa Blues All Stars
• All Good Repair Café Turnpike Lane
• A night out in Haringey: What about a modern magic show at Jackson's Lane?
• Spring Equinox cycle ride - open to all - please join us - Sat 21 March

For Sale

• Very large decorative terracotta mosaic bowl - £10
• Wanted - gardener or handyman who can remove ivy from 2 storey house

Share, Give, Ask

• FREE - White Metro TILES 7.5x15 approx.110
• FREE Barclays PINsentry devices

Pets (including lost and found)

• Anyone recognise this cat
• Large Earthbound dog bed for sale

Crime and scams

• Just Bitten By Vicious Dog. Please Help

local history

• British Library HistFest 2026, 18-19 April
• Historian's book is "full of discovery and surprises"

New comments 

• Why Women Teachers Break Windows: The Teacher who Hid Her Identity to Become a Militant
• Crouch End Playing Fields

New photo

• Excellent photo of Howard Boxall's Shop 167 Turnpike Lane, c1905

A photo from the archive: The Alexandra High Road W.G

things to do in March

• Talk and Exhibition of photographs and maps tracing natural spring water and sewage in Bounds Green Brook
• A night out in Haringey: What about a modern magic show at Jackson's Lane?
• European Writers’ Festival at the British Library
• Singles Night 7x7x7 at Jam in a Jar
• Highgate Repair Café
• King Toadfish Band at the Forest Tavern, E7 9BB
• Jazz in the House: Maydan Ensemble
• Black River Band at the Nicholas Nickleby, N4 4ED
• Spring Equinox cycle ride - open to all - please join us - Sat 21 March
• Introduction to gardening and growing
• Muswell Hill Repair Café

Now Booking at Jackson’s Lane 

• Game of Crones by A&E Comedy
• Moonlight Speakeasy by Neon Moon
• Married at First Sleight by Hudson & Hudson
• Counting Sheeps by The Herd
• Jon Udry Is Having a Ball
• 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
• Edge Street Live Presents John Robb

listings

06  March

• Gnawa Blues All Stars

07 March

• TAI CHI in Crouch End on Saturdays
• Pilates mat class Saturdays 9.00 and 10.00am
• Indoor Carboot Sale

08 March

• Brave Bettie by Half Moon Theatre
• All Good Repair Café Turnpike Lane

10 March

• The Bike Project Charity Comedy Night

11 March

• Nowruz Festival 2026

12 March

• Mind in Haringey Gala Fundraising Dinner
• MAKE VOTES MATTER
• Kitchman Heinen Chiaberta Trio