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Please let me know if you have any pallets that you would like to be taken away. Thank you.

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what I am saying is that women should be given exactly the same opportunities to succeed as men and they are not. That is all.

Men came to dominate the world because they are physically stronger than women, and it is stupid comments like the one mentioned in the op that allow this dominance to continue. Banking, politics, education, religion, media, police, law where are the female judicial appointments? on and on and on. If we as a country and a world could eliminate discrimination towards women then everything else would would be so much more easily solved. As for the stupid woman in the playground, she is fooling herself and damaging her daughter's future security.

Best saying I have come across in a long time and very positive; 'Strive not to have more but to be more' Perhaps a quote for today would be a good thread too?

Morning Eileen I am sorry that I couldn't make last night I hope that it went well. Would you let us know what happened and any news re eagle wharf? Many thanks

Fantastic idea. Great for our area. Thank you.

Left of centre politicians who tell us they want to dismantle private education and then go on to Send their kids to private or back door selective school make me feel sick. Tony Blair, Diane Abbott Ruth Kelly the list goes on. Then they preach the opposite to us plebeians. Arggh. There is so much corrosive hypocrisy. As for Alleyn's for this legacy to have been in place for hundreds of years is an achievement If it could be available to a larger proportion of disadvantaged kids it would benefit society more. Ironically from what a previous poster said The labour party stopped what left of assisted places. If it took local kids first in a kind of local catchment it would also free up local state places benefiting the rest us more.

Hi Eileen there is a link to the article on the Peckham Page of the south central forum - which I have only recently discovered. I will try to come along on the 14th and I also fully support the campaign to control the numbers bookmakers. (The article mentions the gowlett as a great pub too). A thought re empty shops instead of horrid hoardings- I saw in Margate recently that local art students had created great designs - certainly lifted the streets that were suffering in the downturn. Could help tidy up here too?

I think we should give our money to local business and families. If you need a waitrose or m&s order it online. There is a gap in the ed market for a 'collective' local shop order and delivery.

Ibilly99. I agree re shoreditch. Your photo is wonderful. It is awful how peckham has been ignored. Does any know what is going to happen to the eagle wharf old whiten timber site? Would be an excellent community arts space.

Eileen you are doing amazing things. Did you read that the new York times has said Peckham is London's 'cool kid hide out'. The piece in last Fridays evening standard about shoreditch mentioned Peckham too. Rye lane is in need of a rework- the train station square should help massively and the east london line will too ( as an aside I think that the number of bookmakers in any area should be limited. The hope pub on rye lane turning into a bookies was terrible.)

Our almost 2 year old has had this since 5pm Friday. She has not eaten since then save for a lick of butter off her toast on Monday. Keeping water down now, but anything else she will bring back up. It is the listlessness which is so distressing, sleeping all the time. Her eyes are sunken. We ended up in a and e last night as her breathing was laboured and she was not drinking. We were advised that this is a bug which lasts for 7 days minimum and if not accepting fluid try full strength squash as this will get some sugar-energy into them.

We get the politicians we deserve. Looks like there is a need and a desire for a new primary in East Dulwich. If the 'community' doesn't fill the gap some one else will and the Tories have pushed that responsibility onto the 'community' of parents in the form of free schools. Didn't the East Dulwich Lib dems want a new primary on the old hospital site? In suggesting it -they must have a thought as to how it will be run- what is this? James could you reply to this please. Also where will the Stiener School be? James from your previous posts you say the school has already been approved so they must have an East Dulwich site in mind do you know where this is or is likely to be? A Harris primary maybe the least worst option and if it could then feed to a new ed co -ed then that sorts two issues out at once. Not ideal put a realistic solution.

It makes you remember that the world is full of people doing good deeds and performing random acts of kindness every day - just like this. Far far more than the other way round.

Hjq and dorothy I wish you the very best of luck. - great posts

We need a new co edsecondary school. It, in my view, should be on the hospital site, be run by Harris, as no one else will and they seem rather successful and willing, it should have access to Alleyn's sports fields so Alleyn's can fufil its charitable aims and serve its community. This would bring a big sense of relief to us all. All our kids deserve a good education and it makes me cross that we are all so much at the whim of a rubbish system. Our community's kids, where ever they live, deserve better.

So there is room/demand for a Steiner school near east dulwich but not for a normal co-ed? I think the world has gone bonkers. Dulwich hospital site would be perfect James some time ago you also mentioned a massive unused site near camberwell could you remind me where it is Please? Would Harris be interested as through them seems the only way to get a new school? There is a massive and growing need for a new local school.

Sorry James, if I have missed the point, but the inference from your post is that the steiner secondary will not be state funded. How will it therefore help relieve secondary pressue in East dulwich? Also where is it to be located? Thank you.

A COPY OF POST ON HABERSDASHER'S THREAD = More pressure On East Dulwich families re Schools Re: Haberdasher's Aske Consulting on Changes to Admissions Policy new Posted by: njc97 Today, 02:37PM Renata - if the plans for the new free school, together with the adoption of Hatcham Temple Grove school, the number of children getting in from Southwark will likely fall towards zero in the future.