Mark Pack

Woody's is going, Sainsbury's is coming:  »

Given my two long-running struggles to get defunct utility cabinets removed from pavements (both finally successful but only after far more effort and time than any even half-baked system would require - see here and here), you can imagine my enthusiasm when I saw this: Tally ho and all that.  »

If you're a W3 bus user, then Councillor Richard Wilson (Stroud Green ward) wants to know your views as Transport for London (TfL) are reviewing the route.  »

Excellent piece in Slate about the new street maps which are sprouting up around London (mostly central London at the moment, though also a strong showing in Islington), including this snippet: People often overestimate the difficulty of walking to nearby locations, taking the familiar tube instead. In recent years, as the tube has become more congested, [...] »

The headline mostly says it: there's a new local blog, about wildlife in Islington. It's called, drum roll please.........., Islington Wildlife. Looks quite fun and interesting so far and I like the touch of having sketches of the post authors at the bottom of each post.  »

An update to my post about the public meeting: you can read a report of it over on Lynne Featherstone's website.  »

Latest news on the long running saga of the pot holes at the junction of Stroud Green Road and Morris Place: the source of the leaking water still hasn't been located. For a while Thames Water thought it was someone else's water causing the problem, but with the mystery still unresolved (and hence the leak [...] »

The TV series Flash Forward was due to return to TV screens today in the US, for the second part of its first season. However, this has now been delayed by a fortnight, adding to the general sense of problems besetting the show and making it even less likely that the show can continue to [...] »

Another day, another Pizza Express. It's a tough life you know... This time it was the Pizza Express in Great Portland Street, which has one of the nicest layouts I've comes across in a Pizza Express. Perhaps due to the shape of the site it is located on, it's not a bog standard oblong room and [...] »

Here then are the scores on the doors for 2010 so far, listing the number of reports I've made: 57 graffiti 12 dumped rubbish from the corporate sector 42 dumped rubbish from private individuals 1 road name sign 2 utility cabinets 8 street lights 11 pot holes 9 others ... for a grand total of 142 reports so far this year, a rate which [...] »