caturday

There is a lady who lives near me with a collection of stray cats. I have seen my future in her eyes.

St Mary's Churchyard.

I've photographed this cemetery in all weathers, and the wild overgrown summer season is my favourite.

St Mary's Chapel

Tucked away at the bottom of Hornsey High Street, there is a very old church tower. At the bottom of that church tower, is a very small chapel.

bread

A local mystery - how and why was the New River full of floating focaccia the other weekend?

St Mary's Churchtower

At the beginning of summer I went up the very old church tower at the end of my street and it was pretty good.

never gets boring

wrong side of the tracks

A burnt down house, a tree growing cider cans, a plastic sheet in a window. These are some of the sights on the Harringay Ladder.

I've been shooting more on my Canon EOS5000, the camera my parents bought me to use in high school. I'm a fan of how easy it is to use and carry, but I'm not sure I like how sharp the images are coming out.

beautiful & sad

local

Blue Skies / Blue Coffee Cups.

Harringay Market

I'm supposed to be taking photos this weekend down at Harringay Market as part of a fun project I've teamed up with them on this year. Turns out this lurgey flu thing I have won't bugger off though, so instead as a bit of a teaser, here are some pictures I took last weekend.

If you follow me on the twitter, you probably know I'm a huge fan of the market and spend most weekends down there picking up my meat for the week, and a healthy portion of something awesome for lunch. I'm pretty excited to shake this flu and mosey down and start snapping for reals. I'm planning to do this all on film, but it seemed a shame not to share these digital shots I took last week when I went down on a reccy to test the waters.

Harringay Market is held every Sunday from 11am - 3pm. Next week they move to a new location at South Harringay School on Mattison Road, just up the ladder from their current location at North Harringay. If you live in the area I can't recommend it more for good street food and produce. Maybe I'll see you there!

More information can be found on their site HERE.
...and follow them on twitter HERE.

very green things.

I vowed to myself that in the Summer I would find an outdoor activity to get a bit of exercise. This failed miserably, but I did manage to go on a couple of nice early morning walks around Alexandra Park in the Autumn. I even took my camera on one of them. Imagine that. I'm not going to vow to myself to try harder in 2013, because I know I probably won't.

Happy New Year everyone! Thanks for visiting this little spot on the internet in 2012. Onwards!

(No one point out that light leak. Just don't.)

Crouch End Coffee Tour: My Kind of Coffee

Woah woah woah hold on - I know the coffee tour segment of this blog started after joking that Crouch End had too many coffee shops, but I don't think its a war? Is it? Oh it is. How exciting!

Once more into the breach then countrymen -

 I remember when My Kind of Coffee first opened, and we were pretty excited about being able to get freshly roasted coffee on the way home from shopping at the weekends and we did and it wasn't that great. I've avoided going in since, but thought I'd give it another go. It seems pretty busy at the weekends and their salt beef sandwiches are apparently 'world famous'? Can't be all bad.

Let me start with my one major complaint about My Kind of Coffee. These god-awful chairs. Sure, they are comfortable once you can eventually get yourself into them, if you can get them out from under the table to begin with and if the person sitting behind you doesn't then shove theirs into your back so you are stuck, forever, wedged between the chair and the table, until you are old and die. They just aren't very practical. I'm sure one or 2 dotted around would be nice, but every table has them and they are heavy and take up a lot of room. There, thats it, its off my chest, I feel much better now I've said it. Lets move on.

The coffee was GOOD although the cups were so small we had to order 2 - and you can't pick them up by the handle because its those small handles that fingers don't fit into. Am I nit picking? Possibly. But don't underestimate a functional mug handle. V. important.

They have a nice selection of tea (tea-pigs I think, American Key Lime tea anyone?), and I didn't try any food I would love to hear if anyone has? How does one get their salt beef sandwiches to be 'world famous' someone out there must have tried one - presumably enough to talk about them all over the world? I'm not ok with the term 'world famous' being thrown about without evidence of this. Can someone in say, Zanzibar confirm that they have in fact, heard of these salt beef sandwiches? Answers on a postcard please.

I like that they grind their own beans and stuff, might try some of that Crouch End Blend.

In summary - coffee = good. Chairs = bad. Salt beef sandwiches = apparently world famous, although I didn't see anyone eating one to confirm this.

End of report.