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This evening on the way past the Central Library I noticed that a sign had been placed on one of the three very large trees outside the main body of the building explaining that it was to be removed because it was continuing to cause damage to the pavement and other solutions had proved useless.  How sad I thought, still these things happen, and then I looked at my feet on the pavement and noticed that it was not damaged to any great extent at all.  However there were three 'tree…

In March 2017 London Concrete submitted a planning application to lift restrictions imposed on their operation by a planning inspector in 2006.

A consultation letters sent to residents had very little details on the extent or impact the application would have.…

I don't often write about politics on my blog, which may be a bit odd since I studied Political Science at the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki. I don't do this because I think if I began, I'd never write about anything else ..!

But with Trump signing a ban on certain citizens from entering the United States, together with the Brexit vote here in the UK, I am so frightened that I have to say something about it all publicly.

So today I'm making an exception…

North Middlesex CC Girls Teams are about to start their winter indoor season, and would welcome new members. Details are here:http://www.northmiddlesexcc.co.uk/news/north-midd-girls-winter-practices-and-competitions-1733246.html

 . . where few my age have gone before. 

Every so often something happens in my life which inspires me. Last weekend such a thing happened. I took part in, and did tolerably well at, an icosathlon (from the Greek icos = 20, athlon = contest). Like decathlon, you know, Daley Thompson in the Olympics, all those years ago,  only this is 20 events. Unfortunately for the world what this inspires me to is vanity and dire prose.

So what has inspired me.

1) Camarederie - two…

North Middlesex Cricket Club in Park Road  are planning to run four summer cricket camps at their ground over the holiday. 

The dates are:

Summer Cricket Camp 1 - Mon 25 July - Fri 29 July (5 days)

Summer Cricket Camp 2  - Mon 1 Aug – Fri 5 Aug (5 days)

Summer Cricket Camp 3 – Mon 22 Aug – Fri 26 Aug (5 days)

Summer Cricket Camp 4 - Tue 30 Aug - Fri 2 Sep (4 days)

The format will follow that of previous successful camps…

It's here again! The Crouch End Festival,  UK's largest community arts event, is now in its fifth year, and this, the 2016 festival will be bigger than ever.

There's everything from open air cinema, live music, art, poetry, food and even a Latino Day when Crouch End goes all Latin. Check out the programme of events between 10 - 19th June on the festival website here. Most of the events are FREE, so it's easy to take…

We are running another of our popular cricket camps at North Midd CC in Park Road N8 over the half term holiday. 

The format will be similar to previous camps with a good mixture of drills, skills coaching, net sessions and matches. We'll also have wet weather alternatives, so the camp will go ahead each day.

The camp is aimed at boys and girls aged 7 – 13 and will run from 9.30am to 3.30pm each day.

The cost is £100 for the 4 days.  Individual…

The Lady Taverners Under 11 Competition is played as a festival with all the matches being played in one day. Three teams all finished on the same number of league points, and North Middlesex was declared the overall winner on the number of runs scored. North Midd Girls received the trophy, plus medals and certificates from Pinky, the Middlesex CCC club mascot.

I am delighted to be taking part in this tea shop story festival. I will be reading from my forthcoming novella, The Finnish Girl, which is a prequel to The Englishman, the first book in my Nordic romance series.

I will also be talking a bit about how I use my own life for my fiction (and stay sane). There will be a question and answer session afterwards.

If you happen to be in London this Saturday, pop over to Queens Wood near Highgate for a…

Hi there,

My name's Jim. I'm a writer. Pleased to meet you.

I'm on the look out for the good people in Crouch End who:

-Serve behind a bar

-Manage/own a pub

If you fit the above description, then I would like to hear from you!

ABOUT THE INTERVIEW

The interview, ideally, would last for about half an hour - maybe more? 

The questions will be about your life, your life in the job, and those…

The Navy Wife is now out on Kindle

I'm a local Crouch End author, and can often be seen out and about with my border terrier in Queen's Wood or Priory Park, or watching comedy Downstairs at The King's Head. When my first novel, The Englishman, came out, I stood at the bus stop and handed out leaflets and many of you lovely locals took a copy and I saw a spike in my sales. So, beware, I'll be there again soon handing out more leaflets, this time…

This is a great board to play on. It's full sized (all 88 keys), comes with manual, stand, book rest, A/C adapter, and a sustain pedal, which a lot of other boards don't and you have to buy the sustain separate. The sound quality is great.

£350 + collect from Crouch End. Please contact Martin on 159mvr@gmail.com

Curious what kind of (mostly free) food is on OLIO - The Food Sharing Revolution? Take a look to see all 508 items added since July...and if you're outside our launch area, the good news is we are expanding to all of Haringey, Islington, Camden & Hackney next week, so download the app now to be ready when we come to you! …

an arty house being completely cleared. Lots of kitchen/office stuff, furniture, sofas, antique chairs, linen, household goods, lots of picture frames, huge bed and wardrobe, garden plants in nice pots, etc etc

priced to sell /make an offer. may be able to deliver

please email jenny.corrick@free.fr or text/ring on 07881566705 for more info

Yesterday evening opened the first of a series of exhibitions of the one year long project 'Portraits' of the artist IMPREINT. Portraits ran in 2014 as a fruit of the 1000…

Images from Tbilisi Georgia N29 Public School of the donated work created during the workshop of the artist IMPREINT in the Hornsey Children's Library Haringey in December 2014.   www.impreint.com

London, UK:…