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Ealings Accounts 2008/09

Are they available anywhere online?

Paul Cavanagh ● 6250d7 Comments ● 6236d

Great cleaner (with ironing) available

Our cleaner is looking for an extra client. She has a slot available on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.She has worked for us for a year and we recommend her highly.  She is very reliable and hardworking. Her name is Monika and her phone number is 07821142758.Lukas

Lukas Parkinson ● 6238d0 Comments ● 6238d

Car parks on Bank Holiday

Are charges waived today? I'm particularly thinking about the parking behind the Town Hall.

Andy Jones ● 6238d0 Comments ● 6238d

Ealing Gazette.

Does anyone know if the Ealing Gazette is available on microfilm at the library..?I am interested in the editions when the paper went to a midweek issue. (around the end of the 60's I think.)

Dan ONeill ● 6240d2 Comments ● 6239d

August smile?

'Comedian Dan Antopolski has won a prize for the funniest joke of this year's Edinburgh Fringe.The Top 10 jokes were judged to be: • 1) Dan Antopolski - "Hedgehogs - why can't they just share the hedge?" • 2) Paddy Lennox - "I was watching the London Marathon and saw one runner dressed as a chicken and another runner dressed as an egg. I thought: 'This could be interesting'." • 3) Sarah Millican - "I had my boobs measured and bought a new bra. Now I call them Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes because they're up where they belong." • 4) Zoe Lyons - "I went on a girls' night out recently. The invitation said 'dress to kill'. I went as Rose West." • 5) Jack Whitehall - "I'm sure wherever my dad is; he's looking down on us. He's not dead, just very condescending." • 6) Adam Hills - "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. You know you're going to get it, but it's going to be rough." • 7) Marcus Brigstocke - "To the people who've got iPhones: you just bought one, you didn't invent it!" • 8) Rhod Gilbert - "A spa hotel? It's like a normal hotel, only in reception there's a picture of a pebble." • 9) Dan Antopolski - "I've been reading the news about there being a civil war in Madagascar. Well, I've seen it six times and there isn't." • 10) Simon Brodkin (as Lee Nelson) - "I started so many fights at my school - I had that attention-deficit disorder. So I didn't finish a lot of them." 'I only found 4,5 and 9 at all funny and none very good :-(

Graham Weeks ● 6245d15 Comments ● 6240d

Changes to bus lane at the Lido Junction

Good news from Cllr Millican about the proposed change to the westbound bus lane approaching the Lido Junction.  This is a sensible idea and will make it much easier for traffic to move across earlier in to the nearside lane and so avoid the frequent problems experienced when trying get in to the correct lane to go ahead or turn left down Northfield Ave - and avoid a ticket for infringing the bus lane.Three local residents groups - West Ealing Neighbours, the Five Roads Forum and Kingsdown Residents Assn- have joined together to work on proposals to improve pedestrian safety and traffic flow at this difficult junction.  We plan to publish our proposals late September and we are pleased we can now tick off this idea on our draft list of suggestions. We look forward to constructive discussions with both Ealing Council and TfL about how to improve pedestrian safety and traffic flow at and around the Lido Junction. And if anyone has ideas about what could be done please do let us know on this forum or email us at westealingneighbours@gmail.com

David Highton ● 6271d20 Comments ● 6241d

Where is Dan ONeill?

I often think of him when buying cranberry juice (remember his pictures of the cranberry bogs?).

Sarah Felstead ● 6252d11 Comments ● 6241d

Gardening Open Day in Acton

Apoligies for the Capial letter, didn't mean to SHOUT, but just too lazy to retype :-)ACTON GARDENING ASSOCIATION OPEN DAYSUNDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER 2009.PERRYN SITE IN BROMYARD AVENUE OPPOSITE KING FAHAD ACADEMY.NOON TILL 4PMGUEST OF HONOUR 2PM SIR WILLIAM ATKINSON HEAD OF PHOENIX SCHOOLDEMONSTRATIONS AND TALKS WITH CHICKENS AND BEES.LOCAL PRODUCE FOR SALE.HOT FOOD AND DRINKS, HOME MADE, ALL DAY.BE THERE WITH YOUR GARDENING PROBLEMS, OR FOR A GOOD LOW KEY TIME OUT.

Jim Wong ● 6241d0 Comments ● 6241d

Bank Holiday Refuse & Recycling

Here is the Press Release from www.ealing.gov.uk where you will find plenty of info on how you should deal with this together with details of all the facilities the Council provides you with.  The more you take advantage of the better deal you get for your Council Tax."Press ReleasesBank holiday refuse and recycling collections (PR 1523)Residents are reminded that because of the bank holiday, refuse and recycling collection times will be a day later than normal.The changes affect the period from Monday 31 August to Saturday 5 September.The changes will be as follows:Usual collection day  Revised collection day  Monday 31 August Tuesday 1 September Tuesday 1 September Wednesday 2 September Wednesday 2 September  Thursday 3 September Thursday 3 September  Friday 4 September Friday 4 September  Saturday 5 September   Saturday collections are not affected.Residents should leave refuse and recycling in clear sight within the front boundary of their property, not on the pavement, by 7am on their allocated collection day.Ensuring refuse and recycling is collected over the holiday period is part of the Council’s cleaner streets priority."

Philippa Bond ● 6242d0 Comments ● 6242d

Faulty Garden Recycle Bags

Just to let everyone know that some of the Garden Recycle Bags are faulty! I had 3 delivered last week, each one with faulty stitching at the bottom which made them unusable.I have informed Ealing Council who will take this matter up with their suppliers. I returned the faulty bags to them.The replacements I received are all OK.

Jean F Fernandez ● 6242d0 Comments ● 6242d

Kew guest passes wanted for charity donation

As previously I'd would be grateful for any spare Kew guest passesand I'll make a £20 online charity donation forwarding the receipt to you for any 5 passes (less passes I'll pay pro-rata).The need is fairly urgent and I'm sure that this time I can take all I'm offered.(I'm a premier friend and I use the passes for people I'm teaching photographt to)Thanks  John

John Perkins ● 6242d0 Comments ● 6242d

Red Hot & Jazz @ The Questors Theatre

I would like to let you all know about a fantastic show that I am putting on at The Questors Theatre, 12 Mattock Lane!The show is an exciting Jazz revue, featuring songs like, Summertime, My Way, Cabaret, New York, New York, Something Stupid, Things, Get Happy, Lady Is A Tramp, Mr Bojangles, Feeling Good, Steam Heat, The Man That Got Away, and of course All That Jazz.The show features a cast of 8 fantastic all round performers with dazzling style and talent. the Jazz quartet are sensational and the costumes are out of this world! This show will be a toe tapping, finger clicking, tune humming night of musical heaven suitable for all the family!Tickets are on sale now and are a steal at £12 (With concessions for senior citizens, Students, Equity Members and Questors Members of £8)For tickets sales go to www.questors.org.uk or call the box office on 020 8567 5184 or 020 8567 0011.For more information on the show visit www.mastheatreproductions.co.ukLook forward to seeing you all there!!

Marcus Scimia ● 6243d1 Comments ● 6243d

English lessons

I am an English teacher working near Ealing. Do you know someone who needs some extra English tuition.

David Gunning ● 6243d0 Comments ● 6243d

Mini Freewheel Event:  Hounslow Skyride:  9 August 2009

The details of this are now out.There is a group starting from Ealing Town Hall.http://new.britishcycling.org.uk/skyride

Philippa Bond ● 6275d13 Comments ● 6245d

Ealing on Film - Part 2 (Monty Python)

Between 1 minute 50 and 2 minutes of the following video the stolen telephone box of 'Hell's Grannies' takes place on Lammas Park Road, South Ealing.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CStfT8gCrjM

Mark Poole ● 6371d2 Comments ● 6246d

Football for fun in Turnham Green at 4pm

Up for a kickabout at 4 pm on Sundays?Just playing for fun, no tournaments, just a friendly match. We play at 4pm, usually for two hours, at rocks lane 3G pitches opposite Turnham Green tube. £4 to cover the hire of the court. Come once or come every Sunday, whatever you like. The age range of people who come along is wide - generally 18+.Please p.m. me if interested, or join our facebook group:"5-a-side Football, Every Sunday. Chiswick/Ealing. All Standards Welcome!"

Peter John ● 6246d0 Comments ● 6246d

Residents meeting re: St Johns buildings

Does anyone know any more information about this? Just found out on here there is a meeting planned for the 3rd but no times etc. Of course not expecting the school to let us know bearing in mind that it looks directly into my first floor flat, and first thing I knew about it was when I opened the curtains to find it 2 storeys high.

Erika Griffiths ● 6248d4 Comments ● 6247d

Some news on the cinema

I received a reply from Empire to my recent email this morning; text as follows:Susan,Thank you for your email.Due to advances in cinema technology, especially in digital only projection, we have been redesigning the internal layout of the cinema to take advantage of the space saving that the new technologies offer us.This allows us to utilise the space and make the auditoriums either larger or more of them.As the internal layout has not yet been finalised, we have been unable to start building the new cinema because the layout of the structural steels has to line up with the auditorium configuration so that there are no columns in the auditorium space.We hope to have the internal layout finalised shortly and will begin building as soon as is practicable.Rest assured that it is definitely going to be built and is definitely going to be a cinema as intended.Regards

Susan Kelly ● 6248d2 Comments ● 6248d

St.Mary's Churchyard

I was pleased to see the church yard was cleaned up.It states the churchyard ceased to be a cemetery in 1903.I attended Grange School from 1954 till 1961 and during that time there was at least one burial in the yard.It was likely a family grave I assume.The gravestone that stood out for us all was that of a girl aged 2 who died in 1868,her parents are buried there too.Her name was Charlotte Amelia...the inscription included this verse:Do not weep my parents dearFor I am not dead but sleeping hereThough short was my lifeThe longer be my restGod called me firstBecause He loved me bestI wonder if students still pass by and read that verse?Would value any othercomments!

Constance Ella Sullivan ● 6347d2 Comments ● 6248d

Evans reunion

John Evans and his sister Barbara Evans (South Ealing) are planning a reunion in England in September.  Any interest?

Barbara Crawford ● 6248d0 Comments ● 6248d