Owning your own home

Why did I not know this? Will be shopping there soon.

Thanks both appreciate it 👍🏼 Shitty time atm for all independents any support for any or us is good stuff , fuck Amazon ✊🏻

If you go small artist you might be able to. We have a Kate Jackson in our kitchen (yes, her from the Long Blondes) and it was surprisingly affordable although it's not big.

We really want a big one from our friend Dan somewhere in the new house but he's very successful so it might be a bit painful financially speaking...
http://www.danwhiteson.com/painting

We've already said it won't be straight away as the reno will suck up all the money.

Nice !

If they haven't tamped it thoroughly,
(knocking all the tiny air pockets out of),
the cement/fine sand/water slurry that coated the gravel,
will be prone to waterlogging in steady rain.
The next night of frost should see some freeze/thaw cracking.

That's before we consider the negligible bond strength between
cementitious and bituminous systems.

Expect the feathered edges to go with the refuse hgv.

@chrisbmx116 what about this ? Surely only to go up in price in the zone 2 Walthamstow area 😜

https://www.vintagemovieposters.co.uk/shop/dirtydancingus/

What absolute cowboy has fucking done this?!

How long before they ruin it...?

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5-10 minutes tops

That fruit shoot looks ready to add some colour to the wall or carpet 😂

And the one on the left has a look of intent. Arms by side, leaning forward as he strides belligerently toward the first things he's going to fuck up.

Congrats, long time coming.

Colour matched the carpet with cork tiles? Nice.

I mean they already have

The big question is, of course, whether there will be consequences for the planning consent granted previously. Unless they applied to build houses on stilts or some major engineering takes place that means these meadows are no longer a flood reservoir, I can't see how this development can possibly go ahead.

I found out recently the Broadwater farm estate is basically built on stilts because it's on the Moselle flood area. I thought the design was just the modernist commitment to creating dangerous urban spaces.

https://twitter.com/RochdaleCouncil/status/1352264585932394496

No homes are being built within this zone (despite the position of the sign). It was retained as open space with a dual function as flood storage capacity. The raised plateau area in the background is where the homes are actually being constructed, well above the flood level.

Ah, thanks, that has me a lot less worried. :)

Yes, if you look back at old maps, you can see how large the open land, of which what is now Lordship Rec was a part, once was, including the land the estate is on now:

https://maps.nls.uk/view/102345843

If you like maps have you seen the 1619 map of Tottenham? It's very cool if you know the area: you can find farms that are now street names and courses of buried rivers.

Yes, I love maps, including tracking the gradual development of an area using old maps. I can't remember if I'd seen this one before, but I may have done, although I don't know Tottenham well.

Radio 4 moneybox on leasehold reforms

Is that upside down (north at the bottom)?

It has to be. Chisley Lane is now St Ann's Road, the block on the left that says "Baldwin's" is the Tottenham Hale Gyratory. Berry/Ferry Lane is now Lordship Lane. Top right corner is Harringay Green Lanes.

Yes it is. You can see Bruce Castle (named The Lordship House) at the bottom left and the church beside it, both still there.

It amazes me that the road layout we have now was almost the same in 1619, even that weird kink where St Ann's Road (Chisley Lane on the map) suddenly veers north before it joins Green Lanes. Seven Sisters Road and Bruce Grove are the notable exceptions.

Presumably you know the NLS historic maps - but just in case, it's fantastic free resource.