Welcome This week we're celebrating Finchley Now's first birthday! Time for cake, and some reflection. 🎉🎉Happy Birthday, Finchley Now Photo by Brett Garwood Can you believe that Wednesday is our first birthday? October 2nd 2023, after some months of coffee, exploration, planning, designing and coding, Finchley Now was born. We have both had a blast! And from the feedback we get from you guys, we think you’re enjoying it too. The Highs We’ve got 2,500 subscribers and we have great open rates...
9 days ago • 8 min read
Welcome This week we've got a moist honey cake recipe to share for Jewish New Year, Boy George's mansion available to rent for a small fortune, and the Finchley angle on comedian Peter Sellers. 🍎🍯Happy Jewish New Year Finchley garden apples, Hendon Honey and a shofar, ram's horn Next Wednesday night is the beginning of Rosh Hashanah, Jewish New Year. What are the Jewish New Year traditions? It’s a two-day festival, a time for reflection in the run up to The Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur ten...
16 days ago • 7 min read
Welcome This week we've got 3 local honey producers for you to check out. And happy birthday at the end of the week to Caroline Glasner, aspiring Finchley artist. 🐝 Sweetening Finchley With Honey Highgate Honey ready to go... As we hit the end of Official Summer, our local artisans are turning their humble efforts of bees into produce. And as Jewish New Year approaches, why not explore the sweet, sustainable world of local honey? Here are 3 local honey producers who are making the most of the...
23 days ago • 8 min read
Welcome This week we're Art Trail heavy - Barnet's brand new art trail celebrating many of the locals we've written about, and Stephen's House & Gardens public sculpture trail. And a great opportunity to donate to support children of Barnet asylum seekers starting school. 👩🎨 Finchley Celebrates Its Own: New Art Trail The Vera Lynn installation on the art trail Barnet Council has unveiled a new public art trail. Named 'Barnet Legends,' this project takes us on a journey through 21 unique...
about 1 month ago • 8 min read
Welcome This week we've got the lowdown on Liam and Noel's North London property empire, plus some of their favourite drinking spots. Plus a one-night-only Italo-Chinese pop-up restaurant and the new Community Quilt project. 🎤Are the Gallaghers Finchleyites? Unless you’ve been living under a rock recently, you probably know that Oasis are reforming. You may even have digitally queued for tickets behind 249,000 other eager Oasisites. But the real question? What are the Gallagher’s North London...
about 1 month ago • 8 min read
Welcome This week we've got the lowdown on A-Level results, and we hear about our local dramatist who passed away this year. And happy Bank Holiday Monday. If you're off work, check out the leisure centres below. And if you're working, thank you. 🧑🎓 Finchley Aces A-Levels St James' student Andrew Dias proudly sharing his results In the latest round of A-level results, several North London schools celebrated outstanding achievements. Woodhouse College, North Finchley: The 2022-24 cohort...
about 1 month ago • 9 min read
Welcome This week we've got some great local book club picks for you. Plus a cool photography competition, a new Greek cafe in High Barnet and the lowdown on Tally Ho. And if you're still looking for the email address for last week's mention of Swim Farmhouse N3 for little kid swimming lessons, it's here [email protected]. 📚 Get Reading: 5 Local Book Clubs Book clubs have evolved. But there is something still lovely and traditional about getting together to appreciate literature....
about 2 months ago • 8 min read
Welcome We're hitting the high notes with Finchley classical music options, North London finally has a (shortlived) Banksy and North Finchley community spirit reigns. Enjoy the sun 🌞 🎵 Harmonising Finchley: Classical Music The Finchley Chamber Choir A rock ballad might be your music of choice while you're singing in the shower, but there's nothing quite like classical music. Finchley has a wealth of talents. Yours to join...or listen and appreciate. Here are 3 to check out: 1: Finchley...
about 2 months ago • 7 min read
Welcome Well, we're still having a micro-heatwave, so a great opportunity to think gardening/garden centre. We've got you covered. Also, great new veggie South Indian restaurant, and a cool new play about Finchley's very own Harry Beck. 👩🌾 Four Finchley Garden Centres We'd all love our gardens to look like this | Image Benjamin Cheng The weather’s looking mostly sunny this week - and a scorcher of a weekend. Perfect time to pick up those gardening gloves, find that trowel, and get ready for a...
2 months ago • 8 min read