For about three years I've been trying to photograph the ducks that fly in formation over my flat - at the moment they are arriving at about 4 oclock in the afternoon.  However, sometimes they are really awkward and arrive late by which time I am thoroughly fed up and just as I put the camera down and go to make a cuppa, those darn ducks arrive squawking (mockingly, it seems to me).  Or if I do manage to point the camera at them the battery seems to run out at that precise…

The Scaffold.  by Andrea Phillips

Guilty. Hang, Draw and Quarter him.

      

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Hello Bowes and Bounds Connected

I feel very fortunate to have started a new post at Age UK working with the Forum for Older People as Development Officer.

The Forum has been in existence for almost 10 years and has done much good work across the Borough, putting across the views of older people from diverse backgrounds and circumstances, campaiging on many issues and raising awareness of the needs and potential of…

I'm a bit biased about Mr Grimshaw - he lived in Leeds where I come from.  But I think you might like him too and a rare opportunity to see his work is being offered by the Guildhall Art Gallery.  He managed, like Whistler, to create a nocturnal, nostalgic loneliness in his paintings.  It might not be to everyone's taste, but I love it and it is a very…

As member of the Bowes Park Community.    I need members helps to support Wellbeing of Women, a women's health charity that I work for.

Wellbeinog of Women need your VOTE to help become Superdrug’s charity partner for 2012!



Superdrug is asking you the public, for one week only, to help them choose their charity partner for next year. Please…

Most evenings I am privileged to hear a lovely bird singing in our communal garden.  Here's a short video - sorry about the sound of the traffic, but I think you'll still agree, it's lovely.  Is it a blackbird?

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Today I put some photos on Flickr of cloud formations which I see from my flat - I am so fortunate to have a view of lots of sky and it is really fascinating watching the ever-changing beauty of these wonderful drifting shapes.  Most of these pics have Alexandra Palace somewhere in the distance.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/39561132@N08/sets/72157627438462196/

Maybe I should join…

In these days of austerity, how lucky we women are to live just a bus ride from one of the cheapest places on the planet to buy clothes. This is my guide to a unique shopping experience which hopefully, is still as enjoyable despite the financial gloom.

Fonthill Road, Finsbury Park - Unique Shopping…

I love cycling and over the last 3 years, I've been working for a terrific social enterprise called Bikeworks, working as a cycling instructor on their All Ability cycling programme. The club encourages children and adults with learning and physical disabilities to ride bikes. They can ride two-wheelers, tricycles, recumbants and hand-cranks, making cycling accessible for all.

The only bike the club no longer has, as it was on loan, is a Wheelchair bike. This means that…

The recent news that the Victorian Gas Holder Hornsey No 1 is  threatened with demoliition as part of the Haringey Heartlands regeneration has unearthed the following fascinating article and inspiring image from site member Kathleen…

A poem I wrote about living in our area.

The place I like to wake

Bounds green, 

The place where I like to be, 

21 years, …

Bowes Park Station dates from 1880 - it was built as an additional station on the already existing GNR line. In a recent article in The London Railway Record Peter Kay provides a detailed history.

Having refused a station in the area when the line was built in 1871 The GNR board were finally…

Hi Everyone,

As some of you may already be aware, I am currently fundraising for the Lymphoma Association, a charity which offers information and emotional support to patients and their families affected by lymphatic cancer.  In October, I will be trekking nearly 70 miles across the desert to Petra in Jordan in aid of this cause.  Over six days, we will cross a wide variety of challenging terrains including stony…

The official opening of Wood Green Shopping City by HM Queen Elizabeth II on May 13th 1981 marked a significant shift in the local retail landscape - including setting in train the demise of Myddleton Road. 

The 30th anniversary of the opening was widely celebrated. The current management of "The Mall" marked the moment by…

This month the Bowes Park Walking Group celebrated their fifth anniversary with a walk around Trent Park - the site of their first organised walk in 2006.

Founder Member of the Walking Group Catharine Perry talks about the history and current activities of the group in the video below.

She talks about the group's origns - the idea for a local…

A simple but pleasing idea from GOOD

A picture of something you've found on the street that makes you smile. Maybe it's a work of street art. Or maybe it's evidence of an act of kindness. Or maybe it's just something that's accidentally beautiful.

My local candidate is a little picture on a door in Salisbury Road, N4…

Season of chill breezes and blue skies,

When the young sun shines its clear bright rays;

Striving to warm the shadows of last winter’s chill

And call again to rouse the sleeping daffodil;

To swell buds and explode pale young leaves,

Open petals, release scents, for eager bees.

Bursts of blossom bedeck the cherry trees,

Where blue tits dart, and swoop, loop, chase and play;

Busy redbreasts hop by with beaks of grubs

To feed their hungry nestlings…

‘My Bowes Park’was established as a project to engage both younger and older people from the Bowes Park area, with a particular focus on Myddleton Road.

It was a joint project run by the Bowes Park Community Association, and…