Welcome to Week 13 of our 150 days of community project. Don’t know what we’re talking about? Then click here. We had lots of stuff in for last week, though one of suggestions might have been ‘cut down’ before it could come to fruition!

@WENeighbours When I tried that, the council sprayed them with weedkiller : (

— Vivien Boyes (@vivienboyes) May 13, 2014

Would anyone like to adopt a fish?

Harshini Passmore posted in Coldershaw Community

Harshini Passmore 7:39pm May 13 Hi all, would anyone like to adopt our fish? They are black and orange fan tail goldfish in a bi-orb 30L tank with LED lighting system, air pump and fish food all included. We have a baby on the way and so are looking to find these guys a new home! Let me know if interested, thanks, Harshini

 

Adam Brown 11:45am May 14 Gill – The mains plugs do work and are very good. Only for devices you can cable though of course. To be clear, the device that plugs into it will need a network socket and then network cable to connect the mains adapters network socket. They can be expensive – could be worth asking an electrician about the cost of running a hidden cable from point to point, or even getting an extension of eBay or Amazon. I did that in our house when the floor boards were up.

 

Ben DeVille 10:45am May 14 It sounds like wireless interference wasn’t the issue, sorry for sending you down a rabbit hole! I have tried 5GHz as well, it’s good, but you have to be sure that all your devices are compatible, for example, we found that the wireless infrared camera that we use as a video baby-monitor did not support it. I have one of these wireless extenders Gill Adams, because despite us only being in a 2 bedroomed flat, the wireless signal struggles to get as far as the bedroom. It’s very good, but it does have need restarting every 24 hours or so because it seems to lose the wireless and need the restart to grab it again. This is the one we have: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B007SU0BJU/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Adam Brown 10:18am May 14 It does but even an iPad 2 will work like that in my experience

Gill Adams 10:15am May 14 Adam Brown does the 5GHz option require all the receiving device/s to be able to receive 5GHz?

Adam Brown 10:10am May 14 You can try to optimise the channel your router uses (advanced settings). I used some free software called inSSIDer office – it shows the channels your neighbours are using so you can choose the least busy space. That or if your router can do it – switch to 5GHz – that’s an option on the Virgin boxes, and the better ones you buy at PC world.

Diane Gill 10:07am May 14 Hi all I did the test as Ben DeVille suggested and it was the same. I contacted Talk Talk and guess what there’s a fault from the exchange to my house. They have engineers working on it and are sending me text updated on progress. Cheers

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Diane Gill 6:46am May 13 Hi all I’m with Talk Talk for my broadband and I’ve been having problems recently watching catch up TV on my iPad and computer. I tested the speed last night and it’s only just over 2mb or is that gig? Anyway it’s rubbish! I can’t upgrade to their fibre optic service as it’s not in my area. Who can recommend a better provider with higher speeds? I’ll need to have my phone and broadband together. Any recommendations gratefully received.

Linda Pegg commented on her post in West Ealing Neighbours.

Linda Pegg 3:02pm May 13 Hi Gill , Thank you , we are doing some projects in schools at the moment , The large scarecrow was for the RHS scarecrow competition that a local school took part in , she is constructed out of recycled materials 🙂 that the children worked on putting together :-). We are looking to work with community groups, and lots more schools .Linda

Gill Adams 11:44am May 13 Oooh, Linda Pegg – your website looks good. What a brilliant, community-enhancing business (labour of love?). I imagine scarecrow making might catch on round here. I know when I’ve been to Dorset there’s often a scarecrow weekend and you find these mad effigies lurking around every corner and leaning on bus stops. Are you doing any projects locally?

Linda Pegg 9:45am May 10 .

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Did we miss anything? Let us know!

We have another great list of seven ‘acts of community’ for this week – see how many you do – maybe you already do them!

• Call an old friend/relative
• Offer to share your table for lunch
• Accept or extend an invitation
• Talk to your kids or parents about their day
• Smile (in an unthreatening way!) at strangers
• Log off and go to the park
• Ask a new person to join your group for a dinner or an evening

We’d love to hear from you if you do any of these things, or anything else that makes people smile in West Ealing. We have loads more suggestions of things you can do, if you want to jump ahead!

Ways to send us your contributions:

Send us an email – 150daysofcommunity@gmail.com
Write on our Facebook wall – https://www.facebook.com/groups/124290860921562/
Tweet at us – @WENeighbours
Add a comment to this blog post (below)

Is it just me or has anyone else had a sudden invasion of very dozy flies?  I first thought something had died for so many flies to suddenly appear. But no, no tell-tale nasty smell and the wrong sort of flies anyway.  Normally flies are had to swat or usher out of the window but these ones are very slow moving – most odd.

You may know the Community Shop in West Ealing Broadway but do you know about Accession Social Enterprise?

The Community Shop in West Ealing

Accession is a Community Interest Company that trades to tackle social problems, improve communities and people’s life chances. Accession manages social enterprise businesses across West London which provide sustainable pathways into the job market by developing business enterprises that survive and flourish in the mainstream economy, based on viable and commercial business models, and not reliant on grant funding. Accession offers employment opportunities, training, volunteering and personal development to those who are economically marginalised, prominent amongst this group are people who have learning difficulties including those on the autistic spectrum and people with enduring mental health needs.

Accession is not a clinical or social care service and does not offer therapeutic activity or respite care. Accession operates on a belief that people with mental health needs and people with learning difficulties are able to work.

An Accession cafe

Our Social Enterprise Businesses

Arts & Crafts – Accomplished Upholsterers and Seamstresses who design and make a range of high quality crafted products.

Catering – Expert caterers who manage a chain of cafés and provide external catering, create menus which are personalised to suit specific tastes, diet and cultural requirement and budget.

Design and Print – Highly skilled design and printers who offer a complete range of high quality print and design services from conception through to fruition.

Digital Archiving – Professional Archivists who document historical documents and artefacts.

Horticulture – Experts in Ornamental Horticulture (Floriculture/Landscape), Olericulture, Pomology, and other related services such as plant conservation, garden design, maintenance and fencing.

Horsenden Farm – Community destination area based in Perivale, including a trendy café, farm shop, woodland nature trail. OPENING SOON

Picture Framing (Frame It) – Established picture framers who deliver a professional and quality framing service.

Retail (Community Shop) – A chain of vintage/second hand shops selling quality clothing, furniture and bric – a – brac.

Website: COMING SOON and you can contact us at info@accessionpartnership.com

Sally Penycate, Accession Social Enterprise

From the Northfields allotments team:

We are having the third Workday on the Radbourne Walk (the path behind the Northfields allotments) on this coming Sunday 6th April. Yes it’s a SUNDAY this time!!

We had a total of 21 volunteers on the last workday and created Stag Beetle Loggery as well as the usual path clearance. We will be creating another loggery this time too. We will be at the north end near Mattock Lane at 10 am. If you can stay for only a couple of hours then that’s fine. We will have refreshments and Lunch provided by volunteers.
If you would like to join in you can leave a reply on this post or email me at allotmentsw13@gmail.com

If you have not heard about this plan to clean up the Radbourne Walk footpath that runs along the side of the allotment, then visit our webpage http://tinyurl.com/pathw13

If you have further questions just email me at allotmentsw13@gmail.com

Parking problems are almost guaranteed to arouse passions amongst residents. Now those of us living south of the Uxbridge Road and west of Northfield Ave have our chance to get steamed up.  The Council has received a number of requests for a CPZ in the Fielding Primary School area. Following these requests and a parking survey, the Council has issued a consultation about a CPZ. The consultation covers a wider area to take in to account the perennial problem of parking displacement whereby areas surrounding a new CPZ get more cars parking on their streets.

I always feel a bit ambivalent about CPZs. Living very close to the West Ealing shopping centre in an as yet non-CPZ zone I can understand the frustration of not being able to park anywhere near your house. Yet, and it is a big yet, I worry about the impact on local businesses and their staff who may have to drive to work as public transport doesn’t work for them. A light touch CPZ, say with one hour in the morning and one in the afternoon, should not have that big an effect on shoppers who can usually adjust their shopping times.  But it’s far more difficult for people who come to work in West Ealing as they will usually have set working hours. How do they deal with the impact of a CPZ?

The consultation ends on 18th April.  In the meantime, there is an exhibition about the consultation plans on Sunday 30th March 11am – 4pm at Northfield Community Centre in  Northcroft Road.