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Take a Picture of Happy Stuff on the Street

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…

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Added by Liz Ixer on April 21, 2011 at 12:31 — 3 Comments

The mystery and magic of the trees of St Ann's Hospital

Last October, St Ann's hospital ran the first Tree Tour led by botanist David Bevan. This is my personal account of the tour: 

Here's a little mystery for you history detectives to solve.



In the grounds of St Ann's Hospital are a large number of planted rare and interesting trees but nobody knows who was responsible for deciding the…

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Added by Liz Ixer on January 6, 2011 at 22:31 — No Comments

Tottenham Cake

While sharing a photo of Tottenham Pudding on Twitter recently, a couple of local tweeters mentioned Tottenham Cake to me. It turns out this cake is nothing to do with Chris Morris or something that you give young Spurs fans on their birthdays.



If you, like me, have never heard of it, it is described in this way by Ted Willis (creator of Dixon of Dock…

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Added by Liz Ixer on December 1, 2010 at 17:00 — 2 Comments

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