AnMKing

Vaidas bike shop in Honor Oak Park is open for services. The door is locked and they'll come out to meet you and assess the bike on the street before taking it inside.

Renata, as part of the study are they looking at the junction between forest hill road and Brenchley Gardens. Cars fly round the corner at high speed onto Brenchley Gardens and I think it is extremely dangerous for pedestrians crossing. I've nearly been hit a number of times by cars without indicators on.

Try Penge cc, http://pengecycleclub.org.uk, a number of different groups go out on Sunday mornings and throughout the week on an informal basis. Definitely not paragon style.

Curmudgeon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And those lines at the top of the road mean you > must stop > > Why don't you know this? No they don't, they mean give way. They'd only mean stop if one of the lines was solid. Why don't you know this?

I believe there are issues with the height of the bridges in some sets compared to the height of the trains in others leading to some nasty accidents. Not certain as it's my nephew's set but I think a Brio train won't fit under an IKEA bridge.

Amazing building. Not sure it's a home I'd like to live in.

Penge CC also offer weekend rides, varying distances and paces pengecycleclub.org.uk

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > .... The railways should > be renationalised. > The delays are being caused by a Network Rail led programme, NR being a nationalised company, don't believe the rubbish the papers and Wolmar spout.

Zebedee Tring Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > And before anyone steps in to say that > privatisation has worked, there have also been big > improvements in the publicly run TfL. The reason > for the improvements in both networks - much more > money invested in the industry. Apart from the tube, TfL's services are effectively privatised, different structures to National Rail but all run by private organisations (or foreign public ones).

mikeb Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > AnMKing - I can't access the route but I'd love to > know a good way to Box Hill other than through > Mitcham and Cheam etc. Sorry Mike, pretty much my route.

http://www.strava.com/routes/661025 Not sure if you'll be able to see the above link, but it's my route out to Box Hill. Another good route and possibly the quickest way to "countryside" is out to Addington and down Featherbed Lane (google it) from there you've got some nice rides just inside the M25 couple of nasty climbs coming out of Oxted to test the legs as well. Dulwich Paragon I think have their Saturday ride routes on their website too, I think.

There are a couple of courts at Dulwich Hamlet that are open to non-members

Babyswimming do classes at Michael Tippitt school in Herne Hill, our little one has just started at 4 months, those in his class range from 2 month to 10 month, although the instructor did say the yougest she'd seen was 2 weeks. Summer Term has just started so they'd probably be booking Autumn term sometime soon. It's in a hydrotherapy pool so warmer than your average pool. http://www.babyswimming.co.uk/

Can second the recommendation for the NUK bottles, they come with latex teats which are supposedly more lifelike. They're also a lot cheaper than most of the "anti-colic" bottles we'd tried before.