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This happens to us all the time. Try restarting while holding 'D' until you see the startup screen, this usually forces ours to spit out stuck disc. If this doesn't work try holding 'D' in combination with the alt or command key. Only ways I've found to eject a stuck disc. If it forces hardware test just cancel, depends what system your running.

And it's back, for how long?

Yeah, we are too. Lordship lane estate. You can search postcodes affected on uk power networks website. Reaching right over to east dulwich grove, alleyns end. Due to a underground cable fault. Expect it will last most of the day!

They have workmen out at the substation now but still cannot give any idea when power will be restored.

My mother in laws power is out in East Dulwich Grove following a strike of lightning, it appears to have struck power source somewhere. Strong smell of burning around Alleyns. Anyone's else affected? EDIT: UK Power Network are aware of a substation fault affecting this area from 16:20. They advise they cannot give a time when power will be restored to the area.

Grade II listed, yes. They weigh a tonne too. I like it, I hate to see everything so perfect. Pictures of it here.. Given listed status on 29/05/1987 http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-203454-k2-telephone-kiosk-on-corner-of-sydenham

I breastfed my daughter to sleep until she was 2 years old. She couldnt sleep without being fed, I mean she physically just wouldnt! Everyone constantly told me I was making problems for myself and her, in actual fact I felt I was doing what my baby felt safe and comfortable doing. When she stopped feeding she learnt a new way to fall to sleep, within a matter of days it wasn't an issue at all. Knocking on 4 she falls asleep in the blink of an eye and sleeps right through. Issue? Where? Lol. I don't see it as a problem at all, if mum and baby are happy with it that's what counts.

There was one outside our bedroom window the other night. Woke me up at 2am with some god awful shrieking!! Carried on for 45 minutes. Complete with police helicopter circulating and sirens everywhere. Wasn't the usual noise of a fox. What are they doing when they make a clicking noise? Besides impersonating sounds of sea life?

I use both, for promoting my blog and personal use. Facebook I use to stay in touch and follow what various groups of friends are doing, from school and also from the south coast where I moved when I was 14. I also regularly post pictures of my daughter as all my family members use Facebook, including my grandparents!!! As most family are in Oxford, some in Northen Ireland and are on the coast its a good way of keeping everyone updated in picture form. I also use it to keep up to date with fashion trends, latest products, new companies, various news and events. I also generally use it to be nosey. Don't we all? I have a group page promoting my blog and keep people up to date with new blog posts that way and pictures also. I also give company feedback direct through Facebook. Twitter I use but in a completely different way. I follow people, yes. Celebrities, yes. But don't ever read my feed so don't know why I bother. I use twitter as a competition addict. I enter hundreds of competitions a week online and a lot are entered via retweeting on twitter. Every little helps! I actually agree with you in the aspect that your average everyday person doesn't need the use of twitter. Facebook is fine. Twitter is the mother of all networking for businesses and new set ups. You can reach thousands of people from a few retweets in the right places. Within an instant your name starts spreading like wildfire. Whether it takes off is a different matter! I use twitter to promote my blog also but admit I have been less than successful, I have more followers on my personal twitter than I have on my 'blogging' twitter 100s of times over. I really don't keep up with it. I'm not fussed for it, so long as I have the power to retweet I'm happy. For what it's worth, I'm 22. I've used social media since I was 13 maybe even 12. Back then even my friends didn't use social networks, or even have a computer. It was a lonely online world. I suppose I'm part of the social media generation. I love online, I love technology. Surgically attached to iPad and iPhone. Your truly, A 21st century gal X

Re; fruit etc. She eats a lot of things that have a high water content. She regularly carries round cucumber just eating the whole thing. And eats it with every meal. She eats ALOT of fruit, far more fruit in her diet than anything else, but not acidic fruits as I don't think these help the situation. She drinks a 330ml bottle of water a day, a juice with breakfast, milk before bed, and a few other drinks throughout the day. Her fluid intake is fine, so her urine output should be aswell. Yet another reason doctor is concerned. She isn't dehydrated and shows no signs even the slightest. Re; fear. We always tell her nothing is wrong and that she is fine, the doctor just wants to make rainbows with her wee and various other silly things. She is never scared, and shows no signs of fear. These will be first actual tests besides urine specimens. She's not scared to use the toilet. She doesn't physically hold in urine, dance around desperate but won't go. None of this, it's just like she physically isn't producing it, or isn't feeling that she needs a wee. She never has accidents. Ever! I just don't understand it, she is happy, looks healthy, barely ever complains (sometimes shows signs of pain, but won't make a fuss), she just doesn't wee as you would expect her to and of course has had problems in the past with infections. Thanks Buggie. I know it's in the children's outpatient department and done by specialists. I'm feeling confident about her having it done. Hoping she doesn't have any problems like me, I've been known to have sat for 2 hours while having blood drawn. No suitable sites. 10 different sites tried for IV drips to prepare for surgery etc. Really hope it's easy for her. Not mentioning anything until we go on Friday, then I will explain it to her and tell her on the way home she can pick a treat and a magazine from the shop. Her favourite treat! Then we will probably pop in and see nanny and she wont stop telling her all about it for the next year. Usually how it goes.

Saffron, I've heard EMLA shouldn't be used for blood test in children as it can draw the vein away from the surface making it harder for the Phlebotomist to get a sample leading to probing. I've researched into using this already. So I'm unsure about using. Hoping it will be fine with just distraction and thought of sweetie shop on a weekday! Unless there is any other ingenious method?! She doesn't seem to have any urinary pain, a vaguely remember she used to cry passing urine as at around 14 months. At 16 months she bluntly told me 'no wee, hurty' but not much since, that I can recall. Although I struggle with my memory a lot due to medication. Doesn't help! She has always let out crys falling asleep and stretched her body out as far as possible with her tummy in the air, and pulled legs up even now. Bouts of unconsolable crying during the night and not being able to put her back to sleep for a few hours, quite obviously in pain, doing all the stretching. Doctors know all this, partly why he feels tests are necessary.

She wee's in the bath if she wants to, I dont discourage. Although she is never in pain when she passes urine, infection or no infection, she just withholds to excess. She won't eat live yogurt either, unless I can possibly get her to have it in the 'yogurt drink' variety. We don't use bubble bath as she has eczema and is really sensitive to stuff in her bath. So no harm there. Doctor says last positive urine from A&E only showed white blood cells, although they told me and my partner she had a severe infection. They found traces of a lot of things in the sample. So confused with all the contradiction. She seems fine in herself, really praying all goes well with all the bloods and tests and comes back clear.

Another urine result back normal but still witholding. As urine output is not normal doctor is ordering bladder and kidney scans and wants me to take her into kings to have bloods done to check her kidney function, fluoride levels and something else too. Anyone offer any advice about helping a 3.5 years old prepare for blood tests?

One of my biggest hatreds is plastic toys. My daughter likes wooden toys, but a have a niggle a lot of people think she's missing out (she really isn't) and her room is full to the rafters with plastic junk. Honestly! Every Christmas, I try and buy the most sustainable, nice looking, hard wearing toys but then we get bombarded with pink plastic (even more of a hate!) She has a John Lewis wooden kitchen with every single item you can think to go in it, wooden of course. She tells me she requires a wooden washing machine and a wooden kettle this year for Christmas. We also have, easel, writing desk, brio train set and hand crafted wooden farm (both were mine as a child and have been in the family through nieces etc for the last 15 years plus and still going strong), racing mice, red bus with people, cash register, and various other pieces including these which are absolutely brilliant she doesn't stop playing with them http://compare.ebay.co.uk/like/251110460301?var=lv&ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar&cbt=y We also have things like porcelain tea sets amongst one of the most played with things ever, a huge wigwam in funky prints in her room, ride on rocker (now outgrown). All are wooden but modern. I'm drawn to striking design.

I had really bad sleep terrors until I was about 12. Then I just had nightmares after that, but could deal with them much better. I used to be a very severe sleepwalker too but never spoke in my sleep and was completely unaware of everything I did. My parents used to wake me up and try taking me back to bed, or if I didn't seem to be having a terror just walking then they would just allow me to follow through the action then return to bed. I wouldn't be able to return to sleep at some points during sleep walking if I didn't follow through the full walk. It's all very weird. One family holiday I was sharing a room with 2 of my sisters. I started sleep walking. I was screaming that my dad told me I needed to get to the other side of the room to touch the wall. They wouldn't let me and insisted I get back to bed. I started to get very restless. After upto 7 attempts to reach the other side of the room to touch the wall they finally allowed me to do it, once I had played it out I walked back to bed and collapsed back into my sleep. So the story goes. I don't remember a thing. From any of times. I've poured salt and pepper on the dog. Stacked fruit against the bathroom door. To name a few. When in the midst of sleep terrors the Bly person I wanted was my dad. I slept in the same room with him almost every night until I turned 12 when I finally decided to have my own room. It was the only way I felt safe. Sleep walking never coincided with the terrors though, we know that much. Walking was happy, terrors were not. The both alternated and we noticed a pattern to them in myself. I was never diagnosed with any conditions regarding my sleep. I agree with a lot of people though, over tiredness seems to be a big thing in people that suffer with terrors. It can also be a phase in some children. Stress is also a contributing factor.

I too was the same with my toddler and recommended recently on another thread a flashing toothbrush. Available in Tesco and the pharmacy at Goose Green that I know of. Probably other places too. They flash for 60 seconds and then you stop brushing. Only ?2 no more expensive than a regular brush. Worked brilliant for us, would recommend anyone having difficult to try it if they havent before. You can also by singing toothbrushes online, although a bit more pricey.

Definitely very young for CBT, I've been through it myself and probably couldn't imagine a child doing it until at least 7 or 8. Although mine was very high intensity. Will look into cranberry tablets and use in children her age etc. Thanks for the info. See if I can maybe get some this week.

Agree 100% saffron. I know about cranberry and I'm fully aware there is almost no benefit in the juice but I can't get her to eat actually cranberries (funny though, as she does like bitter fruits and juices). She's not allowed orange juice as this did seem to cause the UTIs in the first place, but now I'm probably thinking it didn't. It seemed so likely at the time. Will look into options and take ideas to doctor for a chat. Thanks.

Will ask doctor about preventative measures medical and non-medical we can try when I see them next week. Come up with a plan of attack.

Spoke to GP again today. We are going to get another urine sample now antibiotics finished to see if that shows anything. Will drop in on Monday. Then book appointment to get results and make a plan with GP. As I understand it's standard practice to have further tests done on a child that has had more than 3 infections and especially more than 2 in 6-12 months. I don't quite know what preventative measures we can try, bar trying to get her to keep her fluids up. She seems to get one every 9 months or so. Stress is probably a contributing factor, as much as I hate to say it. I'm under a lot of stress with health problems since she was born and no doubt she picks up on this. I try my hardest to keep this away from her but it's virtually impossible when we are couped up all day with me in pain or on the unlikely day of not being in pain having nothing to do anyway. She doesn't know any children her age and is desperate for friends, which I'm sure she finds stressful too. Although she is starting preschool in September all this makes me feel like a terrible mother. On the other hand, whether this has anything to do with it, I don't know. All this stress has been very full on since she was about 6 months old, it's never seemed to bother her before. Ruth, I too had severe problems with constipation when I was a child. I put this down to falling onto a radiator tap when I was a child and getting internal bruising but my mum is certain is wasn't. I found it very difficult to use the toilet as a child but neither me or my mum remember problems passing urine. I do remember from the age of around 10 though never weeing during the day and only going once on waking and once before bed. Before pregnancy my bladder could hold a lot of urine. I'm happy for her to have tests, so long as no invasive. Obviously. I'm dreading the future with her already, I'm riddled with chronic gynae problems and hate to think this could be the very first signs of her following in my footsteps. Thanks for all replies so far!

Not looking for medical advice here. Don't worry admin, just after a little reassurance or to see if anyone else has been through the same. My daughter is now 3.5 she has been toilet trained for around 5 months and loved it to begin with. Infact I'm not even sure she has a problem with it now as such. She has problems with recurrent UTIs since around 6 months old. She's had 3-4 in total confirmed by laboratory testing but responds well to antibiotic treatment. Just before we started toilet training she ended up in A&E after she became very lethargic, hadn't eaten or drank hardly anything for 7 days and this particular night began foaming at the mouth. She running a temperature of 102-103. NHS direct and Seldoc advised A&E immediately where she was found to have a quite severe UTI (again!) at this point she was still in nappies. We stayed in till 6am to replace fluids and wait to be seen by the paed. She was prescribed antibiotics and it all cleared up fine. A few weeks later, with her permission and enthusiasm we started toilet training. She was brilliant, no accidents, having fun, enjoying being a big girl, huge celebrations on the toilet, the usual. Fast forward to now, nearly 5 months later we have just tested again for another UTI. She started Antibiotics ASAP as precaution but I had to get a urine sample from her at the same time. Now this is virtually impossible. She won't wee in a pot, on a potty, we used to use u-bags but even that's abit past it now. After 15 hours witholding urine I called the doctor again, she advised to cover the toilet in cling film and get a sample that way (ingenious!!!) this worked and I was so relieved. We rushed down with the sample and sent it back to the lab. It's just come back as negative for infection. Although we are fully aware this could of happened as she had already had 3 doses of antibiotic before the sample could be produced. Any infection would of been minimal at this point. Awaiting call from GP again today. So we have got doctors working with us to solve this issue. Possibly looking at tests on her bladder etc to rule out anything causing multiple infections. The problem I come to you mummies with is witholding urine. She withholds urine for extreme amounts of time, her first wee after we take the nighttime nappy off doesn't happen for 8-10 hours! The least amount of time she will wait is 7 hours between each wee. She mostly only does one wee on the toilet a day and now refuses to poo on the toilet and holds that too until her nappy is put on at night. I am very reluctant to take away the nighttime nappy as I don't want to create further problems. It's a really difficult situation for me. She doesn't seem in pain, she doesn't dance around desperate. Nothing like this. She's generally happy, although has her fair share of grumps and tantrums. She's eating fine at the minute, she eats a lot of healthy and fresh stuff. She also drinks generally a 330ml bottle of water a day (I have to buy her special bottled water with Shaun the sheep on or she won't drink anything) and a few cups of cranberry juice and/or milk. To my knowledge this has all become more and more of a problem a) whilst toilet training and b) since the last infection. Has anyone had problems with toddlers witholding urine? Recurrent UTI? And if so have you had testing done with your child to find a cause? If you got to the bottom of this message, sorry it was a bit long! Thanks for reading.

BBC reporting because of an accident. Closed to upland road. Dont think these are connected.

Air ambulance landed on lordship lane estate at around 2.30pm. As it physically landed in the middle of the estate I don't think this is the cause of road closure at plough.. It has now gone, as of 4pm. Walked over to the shop and was out on the estate, traffic was still moving up lordship lane both ways throughout incident. Is it open again now?

We loved going to the Mary Rose as kids. It should be open on schedule from October/November this year, with new museum. We are waiting to go down there on mass for the relaunch. Haven't been since I was about 10 or 11. I grew up around Oxford and we used to do a tonne of day trips with our mum and dad. We loved Roald Dahls house, the living rainforest, Bekonscot model village. I fondly remember these. All worth a visit with children from age 3-4 especially rainforest and model village. You can look them all up online for locations. Probably not quite so accessible without a car but a great day trip all the same.

Call environmental health and see what they think on the matter. They can advise you further I think. Our landlady is much the same, our boiler was shut off by utility service after someone reported the smell of gas after probing our block the smell was found to be coming from our faulty boiler. We were left in the snow for 3 weeks with a 1 year old baby with no heating or hot water. She then sent round a man to fit the new boiler who couldn't provide a gas safe card, I refused him entry to the property. She then sent someone who could show me proof they were registered gas safe installer and I was happy to go ahead. Im unsure of what you can do after the installation, but as advised early in my post maybe a call to EH would be of use to you? Or as someone else has said call our a gas safe engineer at your own expense to check the appliance is safe for use. I understand completely wanting to stay on the right side of your landlady, it can make some situations really difficult and uncomfortable and you can feel totally out of control in a property you have to live in. At the end of the p day it's your safety at risk, not your landlords. I'd sort it ASAP. Councils environmental health team number can be found on their website, if they can't advise they may be able to give you a number or idea of someone else who can.. Sorry I can't help further, hope this has been of some use at least. Best of luck.