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Herne Hill Velodrome? Maybe trampolining or football party at JAGS? If you just need a hall, then St Barnabas in Dulwich Village or Trevor Bailey on the South Circular or the Whippersnappers room next to Brockwell Lido. Good luck!

Herne Hill Velodrome has Learn to Ride sessions for 6+. Details can be found here: http://www.hernehillvelodrome.com/kids/ Their other sessions are great, so I expect the Learn to Ride ones are just as useful. Good luck!

Our 5 year old would be interested in joining a group. Count us in!

Not sure if this is too far away, but we go to swimming lessons at DPL. Lessons are between 6:30-8:30pm. http://www.superkidsswimmingschool.co.uk/Venues/Dulwich-Prep-London

Have you tried The Shala in West Dulwich/Norwood, they have 9:30am yoga classes everyday.

Our 4 year old goes to these classes and there are 3 year olds in his session: http://www.kmptennisacademy.co.uk/mini_tennis.html

If your son likes Star Wars and you'd like him to practise his spelling/maths/etc, there are these Star Wars workbooks that our 4.5 year old son seem to enjoy. It's especially more fun when he's got a Star Wars pencil in hand. Might serve as entertainment during your travels. When we travel, I usually bring along a card game like UNO or a deck of playing cards, & a mini Etch-a-Sketch. What about Jenga for a game that you can all play and also helps with motor skills?

If you're going to Peter Luger, don't forget to bring cash! And if it's too much of a trek, Keen's Steakhouse on 36th is quite nice too.

Have you taking magnesium? Either in tablet form, bath salts, or sprays? You could also get referred by your GP to the acupuncture clinic in Kennington: http://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/our-services/community-acupuncture-clinic/overview.aspx Migraines are awful. Hope you get some relief soon!

What a sweet and thoughtful idea! Tuna and Asian dressing sounds yummy! Are you going to serve it with rice? Noodles? For the salsa, maybe go easy on the raw onions...in case the conversation gets a bit more intimate later?! ;) For future meals, why not recreate a previously enjoyable meal? Something that you had while on honeymoon? Or when you went on holiday? I recently made a Korean bibimbap...probably not authentic, but it got us talking about when we almost froze to death in Seoul one Christmas.

There's a really good and not scary Pilates class on Monday mornings at The Shala in West Dulwich. It's worth the trek.

One winter afternoon when I needed to escape it all, I checked into a Greenwich hotel, booked myself in for a massage at the wellness centre nearby, went to the movies armed with chocolate and crisps. Then the next morning, enjoyed a coffee in a luxuriously clean bathrobe before I headed out for a wander round Greenwich markets and read an entire book in the library. After that, I was ready to face the world again. Greenwich was a nice change of scenery and I knew I wouldn't run into anyone we know. :)

We keep frozen spinach on hand for adding into dal, curries, omelette, etc. Tinned chickpeas for adding into roasted vegetables, tinned cannelloni beans for stews, black beans for a Mexcian style salad with corn, tomatoes, coriander and avocados. Oh and avocados, beets, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds for topping salads.