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I am never worried by aircraft noise and live between Peckham Rye and LL. Actually I like it. If I do hear it, I imagine I am flying off to an exotic place (great way to reduce one's carbon foot print - virtual flying). Baffled by why this is such a major issue for some people.

Cook meals are great - better than M&S. I recommend.

There are two electronic speed signs which used to show if drivers were going too fast outside number 19 Barry road, as cars approach the lights opposite Barry's store. Neither of them work...

Apart from everything else we have in ED - we have our own football team and stadium. Anybody who has sporty kids of any age should take them to see DHFC play. It really is the best experience and right on our door step. Make the most of it!

Just reread this thread, and wanted to add something that will probably be of no use to you now, but I know to be true! as a mother of early 20s kids. Of all the phases of my children's lives, including school stresses, teenage years, strops, GCSE traumas, university entrance fears etc etc etc, nothing was as hard as those first few weeks of first baby's life. I realise now that you are thrown in the very deepest end - actually more like from a cruise ship into the roaring atlantic with the flimsiest of life rafts - and when you survive that, everything else (fingers crossed) is soooo easier.

Just wanted to add my support. I had exactly this with our first. after two weeks of straightforward parenting, it all seemed to go wrong. I remember thinking "when good babies turn bad". He would cry and cry, fed constantly, would not be put down to sleep and woke every few hours. I remember being in Babies r Us and hearing a woman boast that her new born slept through the night. I have never felt so strongly like hitting someone. I got home to find my mother in pieces as baby had screamed so much he was covered in red blotches. A very good friend said to me, on my birthday, when he was four weeks old, that it would all be much better at three months. I went to have a bath and sobbed my heart out, wondering what on earth we had done do deserve it and feeling like I just wouldn't be able to get through it. Lots of Infacol, carrying him in a sling and singing in a low voice with continual rocking and eventually a dummy worked. He also seemed much better with my husband and my father, who seemed to panic less and perhaps were just bigger and more reassuring. And it was OK in the end and number 2 was completely different. It was during those months that I came to have so much respect for mothers everywhere, women in the past I hadn't even noticed. Good luck - you WILL get there.

There are many wards in ED/SE22

Can I recommend acupuncture? Try Giles Davies on 07739 414210. He might well be able to help.

If it helps, my two have 17 months between them and fought a lot when they were small and growing up. They are in their early 20s now, and although they have their moments, they are genuinely good friends and understand, support and respect each other. I found siblings without rivalry to be really useful and if you use the techniques it suggests, I do believe it allows siblings to understand the power of negotiating etc etc. These are skills, which if learned at home, will stand them in extremely good stead in the wider world outside. I am sure fighting with your sibling can be a good thing - as long as it is managed well within safe boundaries. Look on the bright side (which I know is very hard at the time).

We've done this trip for many years, starting when our kids were small. We leave v.v.v early, aiming for 4.30am. All but driver sleeps until breakfast at Exeter services. By then you've broken the back of the journey as well as getting out of London quickly. We do M3, A303,A30 to avoid major disastrous holdups on the motorway. If you leave early enough, you can beat just about everyone. Sitting in a massive traffic jam on the motorway for hours with small children feels pretty close to hell. Good luck and enjoy your holiday!

I walked past the adventure playground yesterday at about 7pm. the event looked such fun, I think there was a barbecue which smelled lovely, everyone seemed to be having a good time and the music was fab. There was a sign saying ?4 entry and kids free and some guys on the door. It seemed to be very much a family event, with loads of happy kids. I wished I could have gone in, but had to take my dogs home.

Try Anne-Marie at Angel Upholstery on Melbourne Grove, she has done blinds, curtains, cushion covers and upholstered cushions for my window seat. All excellent. Her email is [email protected]

I had Botox a few years ago, very disappointed. It didn't make the difference I hoped for (I think I really wanted a miracle and that I would amazingly retrieve the beauty I had when I was 25) and it gave me a terrible headache for a week. I felt it was money down the drain. Much better for me was to go to weightwatchers, have my hair highlighted and cut properly and have a proper eyebrow shape every couple of weeks. Also, once I lost a bit of weight, I bought some nice new clothes. It's all about feeling better about yourself generally, rather than just what your face looks like, I think...

Don't go to the Berkeley Hotel Spa. It's very expensive, and if they don't open the roof because it's cloudy, it's very dull.

Thanks all. Straightforward advice passed on. Love this forum

Issue is, money is being debited from his account each month, which he can prove. Card doesn't work and woman on the desk says he needs to settle his debt first, edge spite his attempts to explain, whilst staying polite. He has emailed head office a few times and got no reply. Clearly he either wants his money back for the months he hasn't been able to use the gym or to have it credited to his account. He has reached an impasse and because he works can only ever go when it's crowded and doesn't feel up to an argument when there are people waiting to get in....

I am taking the implied advice and telling him to "man up" and sort it out, and leave him to it... Thanks all

Son is having problems with them. Having graduated and come back home, he has joined the club. They have been taking a direct debit from him for 6 months. For some admin reason, his entry card has never worked. He has tried to raise this with the staff there who have been "grumpy, unhelpful and intimidating", he has also emailed fusion central office a number of times. He doesn't want me to get involved, by going down and demanding resolution (bossy mum. Advice PLEASE! All very frustrating for everyone!!!!

We found her purse on Peckham Rye....

If we can, let's trim our own bushes. My dear husband has taken his secateurs and trimmed back the trunk growth on the two lime trees nearest us on Barry road. It took 10 minutes for each, not a problem. However, I would just like to say, harking back to my thread of last year... Did the tree surgeons really know what they were doing with our beautiful Barry Road Avenue when they cut them back so brutally? Today we have an avenue of weird green columns, rather than a canopy of beautiful mature trees. I am definitely not an expert in tree maintenance, but again ask someone who knows what they are talking about to explain their aboriculture strategy so that I can rest easy.

Yayyyy. Welcome back Chris!

So very pleased that this tree will be saved. Well done to all those involved.

Order lots of nice stuff (canap?s or salmon and salads etc) from M&S on-line. Get someone to pick t all up from the store in Walworth road and pay some sensible teenagers or students to hand round along with fizz. Much cheaper and just as nice as paying caterers. If you do want caterers I suggest Suzanne James in Barry Road. Have a lovely day.

I don't want to put a damper on this idea, but I arranged a clown party for my daughter when she was 4 and ever since (she is 21 now), she has had a phobia about clowns....