HelloToday I started a new website, this is it. It's going to be a kind of weblog, a place for me to post links and stuff, and if anyone else likes it, in the words of the song, that's a bonus.Today I am mostly liking this house more than this, this, and ... Mmm, bus funThat route that the 106 takes, it needs to have all the parking spaces trimmed off the side of it, there's no room for two busses to pass at once. Saw a nasty accident right here yesterday, a motorcyclist was knocked off.Got to spice this thing up, I... The Joy of HooversIs £209 a good price for one of these? That's how much they are in Stoke Newington Safeways right now. We're going back to get one, hopefully we will see Nigel out of 'Stenders there too.... No sign of Nigelbut the Dyson was fine - one pass of the living room though and the chamber (there's no bags in these non-hoovers) is half full, it's disgusting. Going to hoover all my clothes next.Big up to the wanker security guard in Safeway who challenged me for... One band was goodcan't remember the name though, three piece from Newcastle, and bullandgate.co.uk is no use...Off to either the Defoe or the Wheatsheaf later to play pool... the Defoe is nicer to take our guests to, but the Wheatsheaf is only 50p a game, choices cho... Badger CamDisappointingly seen no <strong>badgers</strong> yet in <strong>Abney Park</strong>, only people, and birds. Will keep watching though.Pool rulesWitnessed a bizarre pool foul in The Defoe last night (we getting back on track with the Stoke Newington theme now) - ball is over the pocket, guy shoots gently towards it, but before the white makes contact, the ball falls into the pocket. So is it ... Stoke Newington ActionNo Stokey action for several days now, stayed in last night, tonight going to Highbury Garage for *cough* some band *cough* because Corporation:Blend are supporting and a chum is involved in some managerial way...On the bus on the way in this morning... Birdcage was too loudThe music's good, but maybe we were just sat at a shitty table, sound was a bit crap. So where tonight? Not back there, maybe to The Fox Reformed or whatever, the wine bar down the bottom of Stoke Newington Church Street, it's about the only bar we'v... arcade gamesWalked the long way round Listria Park on the way to Church Street today, and saw two magpies and a squirrel raiding someone's bin. They weren't at all bothered by me walking so close to them.Also saw a discarded arcade machine on the road, all it's ... Royal BengalAfter a very short pub crawl yesterday (couple of smashing pints in The Defoe, then no drinks in Bar Lorca, as their "all cocktails £9 a jug" offer turned out to be a lie, then the Coach and Horses]]) we did end up going to The Royal Bengal in the en... LinksHmm, The Royal Bengal's menu advertises http://www.theroyalbengal.com but it's going nowhere at teh time of writing... http://www.barlorca.com doesn't work in this browser and didn't come up when I searched for them on the web... in MSIE it works and... Patrick JosephNow this is a bad website... am quite disappointed with myself that this blog thing was meant to be about how ace Stokey is and how much I like living here, but mostly today it's about how shit the community's websites are. Anyway, looks like the sit... Stoke Newington car crashMore local news now, there's a car gone into a lamp post at the end of <strong>Manor Road</strong>, we get a lot of joy riders round here... might take a picture of it tomorrow, it's quite a twatting...Il BacioNext time I'm trying to find the number for Il Bacio, hopefully I'll find this page as their takeaway number doesn't seem to be online anywhere... it's 020 7249 2344 for the best garlic bread in town... The restaurant itself is at:61 Stoke Newington ... Holiday readingWhile I was away I read Matthew's Prize: Being the Tale of a Whitby Orphan Boy's Longing to Navigate the Broad Seas though I didn't know the title was so long at the time... it's about PIRATES, and it's quite good, if a bit of a blokey version of a m... Stoke Newington TrafficHey, they're clearing away a load of dumped cars on Manor Road, lifting them onto the back of trucks... not sure all of them were actually dumped, none were wrecks or burned out. Didn't take a picture as I was afeared of either being chased away by t... Overgrown Stoke NewingtonDozed off for a mintue and thought I was on the wrong bus earlier, Lordship Park seems to have wildly overgrown while I've been at Glastonbury... must have been the little burst of really heavy rain and hot sun, it's made all the trees and the plants... Stoke Newington For SaleHouse next door seemed to have been taken off the market, the for sale sign's gone, but now it's BACK... but with a different agent, with Right Move who have the rather nifty domain name stokenewington.co.uk... thought the price might have come down ... New properties in Stoke NewingtonJust signed up at that website and got sent this:New property matching current search criteria County : LONDONNORTH Address : Shakspeare Walk N16Bedrooms : 2 Price : 225000 View : http://www.hol365.com/?http://homes-on-line.com/cgi-bin/hol/disp... TRAPPED!I had a JOYOUS afternoon yesterday... I was working from home, nipped out for some lunch, got into our communal hallway and realised I'd left my keys in the flat - both doors were locked needing a key to get out, so I was shut in the hallway until ou... Why I can't stay in Stoke NewingtonThis place looks nice, very nice, out of my league though, shame.Today, hopefully:Finish moduling up my library of stuff, to make it properly reusable on BarflyMore admin, so many mailsFixing some stuff on Barfly, never should have started on it...Sa... PEACE!The nephews have gone home, it's been a fantastic week, but tiring... haven't spent that much time with them both, EVER! Looking forward to our family holiday we've just booked for 20 of us in Greece somewhere.Today; washing, tidying, sitting, watchi... SuedeSuede play London, 12th of December, bit steep though... do I do nothing but complain about costs? Am I mean? At least it's a proper gig that we have a chance of getting tickets to, after the fiasco that was the ICA.Latitude Festival 2012: Weekend in... Doctor DoctorHad a great weekend, Chambers let me down a bit though, or I let it down, it was too smokey in there, so I was sat there being a bit quiet with streaming eyes, and feeling guilty for getting everyone else to go there. No-one else seemed to mind, or n... Stoke Newington CinemaWhile I'm in this thread I should give a mention to the Rio Cinema, 103-107 Kingsland High Street, London E8 2PB (Telephone 020 7241 9410).It's the nearest cinema to stokey, but it wasn't showing the mighty mighty Pirates of the Carribean...... Popbitch Karaoke FalloutPopbitch Karaoke was "genius" say the XFM Remix chaps, I like to think they're referring just to me there, everyone else was rubbish...They have Banana Bread Beer on tap in The Defoe now, it's tastes more watery than the bottled version, which is a b... A night out in Stoke NewingtonWe replaced the cancelled gig with a night drinking beer in the Defoe (they still have Lock Stock on), and also Rose wine. I'm really into it now, whereas before I only used to drink red. I tried to get into white, but have settled on Rose, I love it... Three wheeled off road baby buggiesThis is why there are so many of them; according to BBC newsIn London's Stoke Newington - the new Islington - there are said to be more children under five than anywhere else in EuropeLove how it refers to el presidente as "Labour's Tony Blair" too..... Stoke NewingtonJust noticed that there are loads of new pretenders to the throne of Googling for Stoke Newington this weblog doesn't appear at all any more, since I trimmed some stuff out... stokenewington.co.uk doesn't appear any more either, I wonder if it's a co...