Off Topic Where do you live ?

I'm going to report that to a staff MEMBER!

 

Corrected that for you.

 

As a Home Counties boy from the Thames Valley I have been slumming it in Hampshire for the last 60 plus years.

 

cr 11 69-36 . nice old area, 3 blocks from banking area where most of my business comes from (gastro pub). 147 maybe has changed alot, some really big ass apartment blocks are there now and traffic is a nightmare

 

Where do you live in the Philippines? I live for 6 months of the year in Silang Cavite.

 

I used to live in Wood Green many moons ago, yep proper ghetto! lol

 

You and me are neighbours jonny.

I lived in Wood Green back in the day, but escaped to Muswell Hill in 1992. The air is fresher up here - quite nice if you don't mind being surrounded by gooners.

 

How many moons? Enough to remember ***ins, and The Nightingale?

 

About 16 years ago, remember the big pub on the corner opposite Wetherspoons and the Cinema complex across the road. Was there waiting for a bus on a Saturday afternoon when there was a riot and a young lad was shot outside of the Odeon. Chaos to say the least! Not a good neighbourhood, gangs of feral youths roaming about late at night. Lovely place lol

 

Yeah, it's a bit lively at times, lol.
Always was rough as all **** - why I moved out (well, the ex missus insisted really).

That pub was the Nags Head btw - called something else now, the Goose and Granite I think. Used to do cheap doubles, the foulest tasting gin or vodka imaginable, for about a quid..

 

So, you're a Muswell Hillbilly, Archers, ever bumped into Ray or Dave?

 

Used to have a few mates who lived on A block (Aylesbury estate) back in the day. Not a nice place to walk around during the day let alone at night , I don't think the police sirens ever stopped !

 

I do see Ray from time to time. I used to deliver the post to Konk recording studio, when I was a postman in Crouch End. Brian Eno had a flat on my walk as well, and Dave Vanian (The Damned). Vanian has a hearse parked on his front lawn for a while.

One occasion a few years ago, I was driving a minibus full of Polish contractors through Highgate Village. Ray was bowling across the zebra crossing outside The Flask, so I waved and he waved back (he doesn't know me from Adam). Elated, I turned to the Polish guys in the front with me and said "hey, that's Ray Davies!"

Got some blank looks and a "who da **** Ray Davies?"

 

Yes its not the best around there

Muswell Hill is nice. I
I go to Crouch end if i want to get away from all the scum bags that surround me and my family.
I am a 20 minute walk from the new ground that spurs will play in also

 

Not good, Jonny.

 

yes fair enough Chilco - apologies

 

Eh? Have I missed something?

 

yes but Chilco cleaned up my mess Liebherr - not to worry !

 

Yes, but it’s gone now, move along please!

 

Ah that makes sense then, apologies.