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thank you - those are great tips, will investigate. And if anyone knows of any local clubs like dungeon's and dragons (?) or skateboarding - I've googled but not found anything so far...

Thank you - that's a great idea about climbing! ( not sure his flute experience is up for band playing yet...)

Thanks - yes, his school has a few but not many and they are very frequently cancelled, unfortunately...

In an attempt to reduce screen time after school, I am looking for afternoon clubs for my 12-year-old son in the local area... Interests are pretty wide: table tennis, tennis, badminton, skateboarding, chess, dungeons or dragons, trampolining - anything where he can have fun with other kids his age (he already does an art class). Wonder if anyone has any suggestions or can share clubs their kids love? Thanks!

I just objected by finding the case using the case number but the direct link does not seem to work for me (get a server error)

Some of the Vets (not all) at Neighbourhood Vet seem really to be all about the money. We've been with Neighbourhood Vet for 3 years since we took in our cat. He was already 9 years old and had to be rehomed, and the previous owner had a pet plan contract in place that we continued. This means our cat gets 6 monthly checkups, vaccines etc. At the first check-up in 2020, one Vet told us that unfortunately our cat's teeth were really bad, needed descaling & possibly some to be pulled. Predicted cost - £400-£500 due to anesthetics required. Then, with the winter lockdown and various other things going on, we couldn't actually go ahead with this before the cat's 2nd check-up, about 6 months later. At that appointment, a different Vet congratulated us on how GOOD the cat's teeth were, tiny amount of plaque and she recommended some teeth-cleaning biscuits. Since then we had 2 more check-ups and yes, 1x I was told that the teeth were desperately in need of the procedure (now £500-£600) and the most recent one again told me his teeth are in great condition and no need to do anything other than keeping an eye on it. I did ask about the different diagnoses, she showed me where to look on the teeth, and yep, they look pretty nice and clean... So I cannot help but feel the advice (2x) to have an expensive (and traumatic for the cat) procedure is driven by money, not cat welfare...Will be changing Vet!

I had a piercing in Superdrugs, they used a piercing gun but were excellent. I previously had a piercing at the place on Northcross Rd with a needle but I was less than impressed.

That looks great fun, thanks for posting!

Thank you, Joe. Yes I did find the various places that offer monthly desks -its not quite what I needed. I was hoping for places that allow use on a single day (paid!) basis -e.g further in town you can use the likes of HubbleHQ and Andco to book a day pass but nothing came up on Google. I just thought maybe someone local knew of a gem that I had missed!

Really? This is a very simplistic and totally unhelpful comment. Take your pick of potential reasons why I could not work from home: - major building work means no power for the day - replacement wifi means no internet access that day - need to be within 10min of walking distance to King Sports Ground for 6 hours - pest fumigation needed at the house for the day - removal people packing up the house - fear of alien abduction as forecasted in the doomsday book for anyone living at this house number... Ps: one of them is the real one but most are perfectly reasonable! you forgot some more - cheaper to use other people's internet - save on your electricity - don't want to be in for some reason (who knows) you can take your pick and maybe one of them is spot on or if its for work just take a day off ... just saying seriously, do you have nothing better to contribute? just to close this post off: nope, none of the ones you listed were correct. I was looking for a proper co-working location where you exchange money for the ability to use wifi & electricity. I used those frequently pre-pandemic. There seem to be none in the location I needed to be in. So instead I spend money on delicious food & coffee in a number of places. Would it have been cheaper to stay at home? Yes - so you can get off the insinuation I am trying to use someone else's electricity for free. Could I have taken the day off? Sure, but I am not in the habit to let customers down, so work needed to be done.

Really? This is a very simplistic and totally unhelpful comment. Take your pick of potential reasons why I could not work from home: - major building work means no power for the day - replacement wifi means no internet access that day - need to be within 10min of walking distance to King Sports Ground for 6 hours - pest fumigation needed at the house for the day - removal people packing up the house - fear of alien abduction as forecasted in the doomsday book for anyone living at this house number... Ps: one of them is the real one but most are perfectly reasonable!

because I won't be able to

Hey, can anyone recommend a place in Honor Oak/Brockley to work from for a few hours tomorrow (Monday 13th Feb)?

that is a super sweet (pun intended) thing to do - I felt bad for having run out of sweets to offer some late kids.

I found a pair of very new looking black (puma? rebooks?) sports shoes that looked like they might belong to a secondary school child (size maybe 6 or 7?) in Peckham Rye Park. They were behind a bench roughly opposite Harris Boys School - I left them on the bench, hope the owner finds them!

I don't know the actual distance in meters but know that a kid living on the side of the rye triangle near the Rye Pub (now Angle Oak) was offered a place in Aug.

thank you very much, everyone! I didn't realize i-school clubs are free in secondaries, quite different to primary schools?!

Hello! Does anyone know if we can still use childcare vouchers to pay for after school clubs in secondary school? Specifically at Charter East Dulwich? Thanks!

Leftfooter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi all, i appreciate that the shake-down hasn't > happened this year yet and there will be plenty of > movement on the waiting lists in the coming weeks > and months, but does anyone have any update on > whether the distance offered for East Dulwich > Charter has changed much this year? I am getting > mixed messages from parents at my children's > school whereby apparently some parents are saying > that the intake hasn't expanded this year and the > furthest distance offered is still currently > around the Crystal Palace Road mark (which seems > pretty much in line with last year), but i > understood from the school's website and > scarlettbank's really helpful posts above that the > intake has increased by an additional class of 30. I don't know how far up Crystal Palace Road, but the radius has expanded as last year kids on Maxted Road didn't get in in March but this year kids from Waghorn street did.

@gebbjane - thank you! that is reassuring that it's not just me, and that the schools doesn't seem to be using that website! @bonaome - thanks - no it seems just this distance and based on geggjane's post I think it's the gov. website that's wrong rather than google maps for me Of course, all of this still doesn't guarantee anything but at least it gives me a little hope :D

bonaome Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > To what looks like the Charter ED gate on Jarvis > Rd. > I?m measuring to Bawdale. thank again! This is so weird: the .gov.uk website says 0.62 miles which is 997m vs google maps (to jarvis road entrance) says 827m. Even giving it some margin to the actual school building entrance, google maps still says 847m. Plus, I tried a couple of other maps tools that were also within meters of 827...

Thanks all! I appreciate it's impossible to really predict, more a case of it's a totally impossibility or in with a chance. I wonder if the gov. website is using the delivery entrance gate (not the one the school uses) - that would be a relief. @boname, thank you very much - were those distances to the Charter ED or another school by chance? (I did ask Google to convert the miles to meters as I wasn't trusting myself, lol!)

Thank you for your comments OS coordinates, this is helpful. The reason why I was questioning if google maps is accurate is that this website https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/ also gives an indication of a distance but it's quite a bit different from the google maps measures for the school I am interested in (Charter ED). At 170m that would probably be the difference between admission or not... Sorry, I don't know the furthest distance offered for Charter North - I heard two figures (857 and 1013) but cannot vouch for how accurate those are...

Hello, I am trying to judge my chances for my child to get into various secondary schools (I appreciate, the distance can change). I know the furthest distance offered by the schools this year and the point from which they measure (aka, school gates, as the crow flies). What I found confusing is that various sites give quite big variations, e.g. >200 difference vs e.g. google maps measure distance or other tools Do we know what the council uses to work out the distances? Thanks!