brockleybelle

My 3yr old daughter had a soft play party at peckham pulse. It was reasonably priced and included hire of a room for the party lunch. It was a big hit with all the children and we'd like to do it again!

Could someone give me an idea of prices? I buy my children's shoes from clarks so pay approx ?30 a pair. Thanks!

Tomorrow there's also a craft fair at St Bartholomews Church, Westwood Hill, Sydenham. Their newsletter says 'fabulous gifts, cakes and food'. It doesn't give a start-finish time, though their poster did (and I can't remember for sure! I think it said 11am start).

Thought I'd let you all know that there's an Autumn Sale at the Grove Centre, Jews Walk (off Kirkdale), Sydenham tomorrow (saturday) from 10am to 1pm. Selling bric a brac, books etc and tea, coffee and cakes.

Thanks for that, Pickle. Well, it's something I'd definitely like to do once I've had baby. Does giving blood affect you physically?

Have never given blood. Just looking on the National Blood Service website and there are plenty of opportunities in south east london in the coming weeks/months. I'm expecting at the moment and generally feel pretty rubbish so I don't think I'm up to donating for now (i wonder if they allow pregnant women anyway?). But just wanted to encourage others on here to do it, particularly if you're O RhD negative like me, as this blood can be given to anyone eg in an emergency, in specialist procedures on unborn babies. http://www.blood.co.uk/SessionSearcher/ShowAjaxResults.aspx

Was never a Take That fan back in the day but I loved/love Back for Good!

Thank you all very much for taking the time to respond! It was a bit of a nightmare and left me feeling very anxious and unsettled (i've never fallen out with a family member before and I didn't know where it would all end). He's not a cousin I see much at all (about once a year, if that, because he's abroad) but I know him well enough to know he has a great sense of humour and that's why his response was a shock (not that i'm saying my little joke was joke-of-the-century but it didn't cross my mind for a milli-second that it would be taken in any other sense than with humour! I was left completely baffled! I certainly don't have a history of calling SS on people!). I profusely apologised (i was sincere about that, I know he isn't a nutjob (!) and perhaps I needed to eat a bit of humble pie and try to look at it from his point of view) and that was the turning point (before that, whilst I'd apologised i did a lot of fighting my own corner. well, i suppose that's understandable but it wasn't helping things!). It turned out he wasn't sure if I was serious or not and also he didn't know what his daughter's friends' parents would make of it. I can understand that. I suppose the humour might be different in the country he's in, and you just don't make jokes about SS and kids! Anyhow, it's all resolved now and I'm looking forward to seeing them all at Christmas (in my upset state, i was thinking, i'm going to have to miss out on family Christmas dinner!!! Catastrophe!). Thanks all!

Honest opinions please. a family member posted that they were about to watch Final Destination with their 13 year old daughter. as a *joke* i wrote the following: "are you having a laugh?! just looked up (place they live) social services" he has been very upset by this and has blocked and defriended me. his wife has sent me a long email telling me how wrong i was to write such a thing. i'm personally astonished, especially as my cousin's a joker and we're often having laughs on fb. but please, be honest with me. was i wrong? maybe i'm not looking at it correctly.

My friend was there on saturday and said the top area was switched on (the bottom, larger area still off due to vandalism (6) disgusts me )