ITV is looking for four couples from North London to take part in a new series of the legendary Come Dine With Me.
If you arent familiar with the show, four hosts take it in turns to hold a dinner party for the three other contestents. The person who hosts the evening voted the best wins £1000. More than 800 shows have been made, spanning 24 series and counting.
Are you willing to let viewers into your home, hearth and recipe book? Contact emma.leonce@itv.com.
Palmers Green institutions Bim’s Kitchen and Baskervilles feature on James Martin’s Home Comforts on BBC1 tomorrow afternoon (Monday) at 3.45.
The programme focuses on small artisan producers who make their products from home. Bim’s Kitchen were filmed just before Christmas, making their award winning African Baobab Chilli Jam, before decamping with the film crew to Baskervilles tea room, who stock their products, for a tasting with some customers.
We haven’t seen a preview,” says Nicola Adedeji, who runs Bim’s Kitchen as a family business with husband James (Bim), “It will be interesting to see which bits of a whole day of filming they use in the 3 min film…!”
If you havent yet tried Bim’s Kitchen’s products, there is rather a treat in store for you. My bap at the Palmers Green festival is still fresh in my mind.
Bim’s use ingredients native to or commonly used in Africa like baobab fruit, cashew nuts, alligator pepper, cubeb and hibiscus flowers amongst others, to make easy-to-use sauces and condiments. Reading through the mouth watering recipes on their website this evening has made me a tad unsatisfied with our choice of tea, and Baskervilles closed an hour ago. Boo. But they are open again tomorrow. Hurrah!
Does anyone recognise this smiling local dignitary?
Jane Lloyd contacted us recently in the hope that someone in the area can provide information on the portrait, which she found in one of her family albums.
His name may have been Gibbs or Hole and it seems possible that he was a mayor or councillor of Southgate between the wars. Says Jane, it says Palmers Green on the back of the photo (and Camera Craft PG on the front) but there is no further information, and she is not aware of any particular family connection with the area. Unless you know differently….
The Broomfield House Trust is one of the three charities selected by Waitrose Palmers Green this month for the Community Matters scheme.
Here is how it works: Simply ask for a green token when you shop, and place it in the Broomfield House section of the Community Matters box and at the end of the month Waitrose will allocate monies on the basis of the number of tokens deposited.
Since it’s launch in 2008, £14 million has been donated to local charities through the scheme, so its worth a moment of your time.
What does Palmers Green sound like?
One answer is contained in a new sound map produced by a fascinating London website, London Sound Survey. The map pays tribute to Beck’s iconic map of the underground, but instead of tube lines, the focus is on waterways, or more accurately, the sounds around London’s Waterways, including the New River at Palmers Green, and at other sites as the 400 year old man-made water course makes its way into the city.
In the Palmers Green recording, taken at the New River by Oakthorpe Road in September 2011, you can hear traffic, children playing outside the mosque, birdsong, airplane drone, and in a back garden a mastiff begins barking.
Elsewhere on the site there is a two-minute recording of Green Lanes at Palmers Green – mostly traffic, speech and the obligatory car horn. The sounds are somehow soothing, and make you wonder what Palmers Green might sound like in 50 years time and how strange the sounds might be to our descendents.
The map is part of a much wider website dealing with sound in the capital – now and in the past. There are some wonderful things contained therein and I really can’t recommend it highly enough.
One to explore
Frankly the weather is abysmal but next Wednesday (29 January) Talkies Community Cinema plans to fill PG with cheer with a special programme featuring London’s young film makers.
Showing at the Fox, the evening of short comic films will be introduced by and MC’d by actor Gem Carmella, who has graced our screens in The Bill, Casualty and Holby City. There is even one with that nice Martin Freeman.
Here some teasers for the programme
and all for a modest fiver.
You can get tickets by booking online, or direct from Annita at the Palmers Green station kiosk, or Anthony Webb estate agents.