Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Pemberton Play Street: 2-5pm Sunday 20th July
We will holding a Play Street on Pemberton tomorrow between 2-5pm. You are welcome to come along and bring the kids to play safely in a car free zone.
PS- Please remember to look after you kids, their safety is our concern, but your responsibility!
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Permalink Reply by Pat on
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I know, its absolutely disgraceful that one Sunday every month the street is closed to let kids play safely in the streets. I am beside myself with range at the inconvenience it causes me for all of 2 seconds. If I had my way I would ban all fun. Mostly Harmless, I echo your question Why?, Why should children and community get together to have fun; why should a numpty make sure that I drove at a safe speed while all these inconvenient children play in the street; why, why, why! I also noticed that they allowed non-chattering class kids play and mix with chattering class kids. The horror.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Notting Hill carnival? London Marathon? Olympic road race? Harringay Festival? All so wrong!
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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Personally, I'd prefer the San Franciso model Sunday Streets but I fear if the council allowed that in Haringey some people would spontaneously combust with rage which I suppose would save on the firework display.
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Permalink Reply by Lauren on
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Hahahahaha! What else do you hate? Do you want to get it all off your chest now, before you have a seizure?
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Permalink Reply by GillianM on
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That's it. You're right and everyone else is wrong. Not just wrong but twisted and broken. So why not just give up, leave this "debate", and take your horribly offensive comments with you.
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Ah, it was all going so well MH until you used 'Nu Labour' (a better one is 'Nu Liebore').
I think you've accidentally signed into the wrong forum. As you are clearly educated (my working class family wouldn't know a Cartier Bresson from a picture of Nan at Clacton) and can string an elegant sentence together in the style of J Clarkson, I think you'd find more like-minded folk chatting here.
Incidentally, do you still live around here? I know you've mentioned on other posts that you were born and bred here but, as you have to drive to Pemberton, I'm guessing you've moved (unless you have mobility issues, in which case, my apologies for suggesting you don't need a car to get around Harringay).
Incidentally, the road isn't closed, you are free to drive down it but slowly and with extra care for about 30 hours a year, of which you will probably spend no more than 5 minutes on the road. Probably no more than you spend sat behind a dustcart or stuck in a traffic jam on Green Lanes. Think of it in those terms and maybe you'll feel less like shouting on neighbourhood forums. Maybe
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No, no you *can* drive right down it if you insist and if you really want to, provided you don't mind driving behind a guide. Most people do, so choose an alternative route. (My fave moment was the bald van driver one hot summers day who stuck his head out of the window and encouraged the kids to use their water pistols on him.) Kids have to get out of the road which is why the marshals are also provided with whistles and parents sit around to ensure they comply, as well as supervising.
I think the signs are probably part of the 'kit' from the council. As this is a new scheme, I guess they haven't got special Play Street ones.
I fear this has all been a misunderstanding then. People who live on the road have to be granted access of course. It's known as a Temporary Play Order and they are becoming increasingly common across London and other cities.
p.s. I can't imagine what paper you might read then -certainly not the Graun and you're surely not a Sun reader, gosh not the DM or the Express - say it ain't so
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Well not exactly. I think, in theory, it is access only but as I say there is nothing to prevent you from going all the way down, except your own conscience and sense of neighbourliness.
Alas not everyone has your sweet temperament MH, and the signs and cones are there to prevent someone forcing their way through, as I'm sure you're aware they would if only a "numpty" stood in their way.
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Why yes I believe there is. I think some of them even vote Labour.
[I don't read papers regularly for pleasure (sometimes dip into the Morning Star online) although for work I often have to read bits of the broadsheets of all hues. From the little I read online, The Telegraph is very good for gardening, the Graun for books and art. ]
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Nobody cares if you have a problem with it or not! Anyway this is all just attention-seeking on your part isn't it?
Maybe if you had a cat you would not feel the need to be so horrible? I know some kittens that will be ready for rehoming in a few weeks :-)
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Yeah you're right.
Time to put this discussion to bed. There's no midway t'wixt these extremes.
It has been bracing to say the least but I think everything that needs to be said has been expressed.
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Interesting arguments about taxation here. So following the lead of some posters I should without the money I pay from
general taxation (used directly by the highways agency and distributed as formula grant to local authorities and used for highways maintenance)
The GLA precept (used by TFL for the maintenance of major roads in London)
council tax (which is used for road maintenance)
because I don't own a car and so have no interest in the upkeep of roads?
Also, can I withhold the money I pay towards education as I don't have children and for the NHS as I've never been in hospital?
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