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Gidget: It would be ?39 for one dog per day so not much more for having two but yes dogs are a lot more hassle to look after than cats as they need walking and entertaining. sheilarose: We don?t pay for food or mileage, but yes the fee would include agency fees on top of the sitter?s fee. We don?t come home to a gleaming house either, as soon as the sitter leaves we hover and clean up after them but that?s ok as they do a great job looking after our pets and without the service we would never go away.

Gidget Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Looking after dogs is a lot more responsibility > than cats. ?30 a day is a lot of money to pay > someone to be in your house. Professional > housesitters don't even get that much. They do it > for the change of scenery etc. I pay ?45 per day for a housesitter to live in with our dogs and walk them, she is professional from an agency which is why we pay so much! Would love to know where I could find someone cheaper?! lillyanginger: I think you should pay your goddaughter, she is doing you a big favour as you would pay to have someone come in everyday to feed your cats and also she is a student so could probably do with the money. She may refuse to take the money, in that case just bring her back a nice present.

jelly: No problem I didn't want to go into too much detail but there it a lot more to the story. Anyway I was standing next to another olice officer when he called in on the roadio to the patrol car that went out looking for the man who had been following me and he said 'suspect may be armed' this was because we saw him untuck his shirt put something into his back pocket and then leave his shirt hanging out before making a dash for it out the park.

Mfcjoe: how rude of you to treat the OP as if she is over reacting, you weren?t there?he wasn?t just staring at her, he followed her and ran off at one point! Doesn?t that seem suspicious to you?! The same thing has happened to me three times in the last year in the park whilst walking my dog. On the third occasion when the man was following me luckily the police were in the caf? so I text my partner to go get them as he was at the other end of the park walking our other dog, the man saw them approaching and rode off on his bike. The police gave chase on foot but lost him! They suspected he was armed and later found the bike he abandoned down a side road. I am not easily intimidated and have no problem asking someone what their problem is but this man was tall and built like a heavyweight boxer and when I would walk up to the nearest person I could find in the park and pretend I knew them so he couldn?t get me alone and walk with them he would just stop and stare watching me walk away but would still follow me but keeping his distance. He was always waiting for me to be on my own. He was seen hanging about on another couple of occasions in the park and was also reported for intimidating other woman but as the police said to me they can only stop to ask him for questioning nothing else until he actually causes physical harm!!

Ooh I have never been trolled before! I am gullible, can't see why someone would pretend to be someone they're not...but then there are some strange people out there!

dogwoman: I was going to defend you and say that maybe you had forgotten to bring pooh bags with you or had run out but if you just couldn't be bothered then you deserve the rant by the orginal poster above! I can't be bothered to pick up after my dogs who sh*t on their walks more than once but I just get on and do it as that's what owing a dog is all about. I hope you step in dogsh*t next time you leave the house, then you may learn to be more considerate to others in the future.

Victim: That's sounds terrifying! Sounds to me like a case of mistaken identity as that?s not usually how a carjacking happens? I can?t see why they would hammer the car they want to steal! Also the fact that they continued to chase him, very persistent just to steal someone?s car and also draws massive attention to themselves! Thank god your husband didn?t get out of the car and managed to get away safely!

St James The Great is a catholic primay school in Thornton Heath off Green Lane. Very good school.

Miss P is it nice of you to apologise to the jogger and I hope if she reads this forum that she will learn to use her common sense when crossing the rd in the future. Yes cars are meant to stop to allow people to cross the pedestrian crossing first but don't we all still stop and check its safe before running into the road?! I can't tell you the amount of times I have been waiting at a crossing and a car has driven through ignoring me or as a driver when at a roundabout and it being my right of way the other driver has completely ignored giving way to the right and driven on! You have to be cautious at all times whether you know you are in the right or not because even though you may know the highway code inside out unfortunately there are plenty of others out there who don't or simply choose to ignore the rules.

I am disgusted by this! Children change their minds all the time and if your child doesn't want to take part in the dance show then so what, you cannot force her to. Dance classes at such a young age should be about enjoyment, the teacher sounds like an absolute nightmare! I run a dance class for children ageing from 3-8. Some of the parents cannot afford to spend the ?25 on a pair of shoes for class until they know that their child is going to stick to the class so I allow them to wear pupms, trainers or whatever they have! I would never demand the parents keep forking out on new shoes and uniforms! Christ Miss Zoe you aren't teaching with The Royal Ballet or at RADA. Sounds to me like she is running this purely as a money making business and less for the passion of teaching dance to children. The fee's are shocking as is the amount of time she is asking you to volunteer your time! As for changing fee's and not warning you until she send an invoice that's out of order aswell! Find another school with passionate and caring teachers.

grumpyoldman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If it is damage by dogs surely the owners of the > dogs should take responsibility not the park/ > council. It is another waste of tax payers money > that dog owners are unable to look after what they > own. > > The alternative is to ban dogs from the parks and > at the same time to ban them from the streets > which would save the cost of cleaning up after > them. > > Alternatively why not reintroduce dog licences at > say ?500 a year, you then have the choise between > dog ownership or not. > > Everything else is taxed so why not another thing. If dog licences were introduced the type of dog owners that allow their dogs to chew and damage trees wouldn't pay for a licence for their dog you can guarantee that. It would be impossible to enforce it aswell! As for saying an alternative is to ban dogs from parks and streets I do hope you were joking!

Cat Disney, sounds like our house :)) Actually I have just counted 7 teddies, 4 tennis balls and 3 nylabones in the living room plus there are two large dog beds, one large crate oh and where are they sleeping now...on the sofa of course!

I think the private clinics that put in the PIP implants should be the ones to remove and if wanted by the client replace them. It's wrong for the private clinics to refuse to do this which I believe some of them are! For the people who has this done on the NHS well then the NHS should be responsible for removing/replacing them but I don't think it should fall on the NHS to do this for the clients who went private in the first place. I personally think it's wrong to go to the NHS for a boob job to make them bigger! If you want them larger for no other reason than you just want them then you should have to go private and pay for it. I think if you having problems with large breasts then yes the NHS can step in and offer a reduction. The same with people going to the NHS for lipo, I know someone who's doctor referred them because she said she was feeling down about her baby weight she put on when pregnant. Why should the NHS do this for her?!

Good Luck for the class tomorrow, I hope your daughter enjoys it. It does sound more fun, sometimes it takes trying a few different classes out to find the one she enjoys the most. Plus you won't have any horrible parents to deal with...hopefully :))

helena handbasket: I agree with you, the children aren't expected to come in and know how to behave straight away but they should def get the message by the third of fourth class which by then I will have told them the rules of the class i.e. come in and sit down quietly and change their shoes (I help them with this of course as some parents just drop them off and leave me to change their shoes!). They develop patience and the discipline as the weeks go by that is for sure is my class anyway. I personally think 3 is too young for a dance class and that it is more suited to children who have already started school and therefore will be more used to behaving in those situations. Although the particular problem I am having if with a 5yr almost 6yr old who should know better!

Otta: I agree the teacher should def tell the parents if there is a problem with their child in the class, I have done this actually on a couple of occasions but they keep telling me how much she loves it! They mother actually said to me that her child was just being a bit of a bitch which I was shocked by! Do you think I should just put up with her behavior and allow her to attend? Or should I say that she is too difficult and distracting and no longer welcome although don't know if I have the heart to disappoint the child as I know she enjoys the class and to be fair is learning the steps and progressing albeit slowly.

Hi Minkey, no she doesn't have eczema we know this as we recently had skin scrapings done plus her pooh examined to find out what was the cause of the allergy. We tried various types of protein and brands of food over periods of 6wks but in the end found it was just a wheat allergy. It's a gastro problem, she has had pancreatitis and is sick if she eats wheat or beef/lamb. She is now on Burns Pork & Potato and it's been the best thing for her. Our behaviorist rang several brands of dog food and it was the only one that let him look around they factory at how the food is made. There is a lot of crap in some brands of dog food! Her skin is still a bit of a problem but the vet thinks it's environmental! The shampoo helps, we are still trying to get to the bottom of that one. Think we will have to do a full panel blood test to determine the cause, could be anything from dust mites to pollen!! I'm waiting for the freezer to empty so I can stuff her teddies in there, apparently that kills off the mites, but my boyfriend said if he comes home to a freezer full of dog teddies he'll have me committed!!

One more thing how many weeks did she attend as some children take a while to settle into a class. I have seen this with some of my children, as the weeks go on they learn to be more disciplined in class. It would be a shame to stop the ballet class if she is really enjoying it, don't worry about the other parents.

Hi susyp, As a teacher myself of a dance class of children from 3-7 it's really frustrating if one child is messing about and disrupting the other children. I think you said above she was only being a bit silly and making faces, I don't mind my kids talking whilst they are waiting to dance and being a bit silly as long as it doesn't distract me from teaching and become loud enough that I have to shh them. But I have one child who always attends every week but spends the time messing about and talking too loudly. She is obviously enjoying herself cos she is always laughing but gets the other kids involved therefore distracting them. I spend my time asking her to sit in her chair and talk quietly and not run around. I don't think it's fair that I have to stop the music when teaching to constantly address her and to be honest don't like to as she then gets upset. I can see it bothers the other parents at how naughty and disruptive this one child can be. It's up to the parents to make sure their children know if they are doing a class that they must behave and listen to the teacher. The one week she didn't attend I hate to say it but I enjoyed the class more as got to spend more time teaching my kids new dances and they all behaved extremely well. I have spoken to her parents to ask if she enjoys the class and apparently she loves it! I am in no way saying your little one is anything like this child but I just wanted to give you another perspective. Oh and I agree it was totally wrong for another parent to shout at your child, if they had a problem they should have spoken to you direct. Some children are not ready for a disciplined dance class, I have had 3yr olds that are fine but also 5yr olds that didn't get on so well.

I'm currently reading Street Boys: 7 Kids. 1 Estate. No Way Out. The True Story of a Lost Childhood. It's about 7 kids marred by guns, gangs and violence growing up on Angell Town Estate in Brixton and their life in the PDC gang.

Nette: Yes it's true lots of animals are wheat free as ridiculous as that sounds! One of my dog's is wheat free, she can only eat chicken or fish and is not allowed bones to chew either. She has to have a bath every week in special shampoo and currently eye drops twice a day! High maintenance to say the least!!

Welcome to the forum Mike. Do you or your wife drive and own a car as if so parking can be an absolute nightmare in East Dulwich. Depends which road you move to, but if directly off Lordship Lane then be prepared to drive around in circles trying to a find a space remotely near your front door! The only other thing is house prices are really expensive for the size they are, we saw one half house off Lordship Lane and there literally was half a bath! Plus if you want a decent sized garden you can forget it! Obviously there will be a few exceptions but the majority we saw when viewing were teeny. It all depends what you are after though as neither of those things may be important to you or your wife. I can't think of any other negative reasons not to live in E Dulwich, lots of shops, restaurants, pubs, great wknd market plus Dulwich Park which is lovely. Happy house hunting:))

We bought one from the guy outside Mrs Robinson at the wknd, it's quite big about 7ft and cost ?60 with ?10 for the base. It's a lovely tree but when we took it home it could't fit into the base so we had to saw the bottom of it off!

The RSPCA won't do anything when it comes to wild birds. I had to ring up once about some birds being trapped and on their voicemail it stated their too busy to come out to help birds and to call the local council (can't remember which department they said to contact). Surely if you complain to the council about the mess from the hairdressers they will be able to do something?! Good Luck with this, poor pigeons :(

Totally agree, I am ignoring now also. It's sad and pathetic to have to hide behind several false identities, now I feel a bit sorry for him.