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August 2012 Blog Posts (3)

Highgate Wood School Organic Garden N8 Needs Volunteers for September or ASAP

Highgate Wood School need Volunteers and a manager for our garden projects! Any one interested in Food Growing in the Community, (to raise funds children sell their school grown produce at Waitrose and Stall for All Budgens). We'd gratefully receive anyone with the following experience: Horticulture, Garden Design, General Maintenance, Making Murals, Mosaics in the school grounds including the garden,…

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Added by Caroline Jones on August 3, 2012 at 10:00 — No Comments

Is London a friendlier city during the Olympics?

Picture: Time Out

Before the 2012 Games, the greatest worry for the organisers and ordinary Londoners was transport. How would the…

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Added by Helena Halme on August 2, 2012 at 16:16 — 3 Comments

Olympic Torch Relay in Crouch End

You must know by now how I feel about The Olympics. I have severe Olympic fever already and so when I saw the torch relay was coming quite close to us, I immediately decided to walk to Prior Road to see it. The atmosphere was fantastic - the road was lined two or three deep as far as the eye could see. People were cheering anything that went past: sponsors buses, policemen on bikes and motorbikes, relay staff jogging, waving flags or unicycling……

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Added by Helena Halme on August 2, 2012 at 10:41 — 2 Comments