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My little one had a real intolerance to most milk powders as well as reflux (I was unable to breast feed). Feeding became such an ordeal as he would writhe around in agony and his little body would go rigid as he howled in pain. After several wasted trips to GP, who just prescribed baby Gaviscon that just made him constipated and some God awful synthetic stuff that was so thick it was impossible to drink, I gave up and went to see Lizzie, cranial osteopath on Lordship Lane, above Health shop. She was fantastic!! She suggested I try him on powdered goats milk! It's not recognised over in U.K as suitable for babies, due to scaremongering from the large synthetic powder companoes that dont want it to take over their markets, but it is extremely popular in Australia and New Zealand. I was a bit skeptical as to whether my son would take to it but he loved it and honestly, overnight I could see the difference! Feeding became such a pleasurable experience and I actually started looking forward to it, which after so long of dreading each feed was wonderful. My son is now 14 months and I have just weaned him off it and onto cows milk as they say most intolerances will go away by then. He is a thriving, perfectly developed little boy so don't listen to everything you read about something. I would try making an appointment with Lizzie to see what she thinks.

Thanks Pebbles. As I said, any theme would be possible. An initial meeting(free) would allow me to collect your preferences, ideas, input from children. I would then go off and make a sketch which you would then approve and we would arrange a day for me to come in and do it. But it's still at the idea stage at the moment. I'm just trying to garner whether there would be enough interest to make it a viable option. Thanks again for your positivity!

Thanks for your comments fapl. That's why I put the idea out there on the forum to get people's ideas, be it positive or negative. All feedback appreciated

Thanks for the positive feedback! The paints I use are just emulsion tester pots so as such can be covered with two coats of white emulsion. I am very open to ideas and suggestions as I am obviously very new to the whole business side of it but was wondering whether a flat per day might be the way to go.

dulwichgirl2 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Great idea but as always comes down to cost. I > suppose that depends on your time. If you have to > go and look at everything it will end up quite > expensive. Would you have a range of off the peg > ideas that customers could just click on as it > were? Those wanting a tailormade service with > images of relatives or favourite toys or whatever > could have special consultations and separate fee > scheme, perhaps? Thanks for your thoughts dulwichgirl2. I am not and do not profess to be an artist nor do i have any qualifications so i would not be charging extortionate rates. It is just a hobby that i quite enjoy doing, so far just for friends and family. It is hand painted, so as such would not be without imperfections. Depending on the scale of the design it usually takes about 2 days work. i wouldnt charge for consultation as such, just the labour and materials and as i only use tester pots (only about ?2 each) the cost is not high. It is still early days, and maybe wont come to fruition, but i just wanted to see if there would be any call for it in the area. I am a single mum, so would be fitting it around my 13 month old so would be a small scale venture!

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Hi there, just getting an early feel if there would be any interest from parents wanting/interested in having their children's walls decorated with cartoon style pictures. I will include a few pictures of walls that I have done in the past. Parents and children can give an idea of things that they are into e.g. Animals, boats, cars, sealife etc and I would come up with a sketch and if you are happy with it I could paint it onto their walls. Choldren can even paint their own pictures and they could be transferred onto the wall. I use a projector to transfer the pictures onto the walls and then paint using tester pot colours. Haven't gone far enough into it to think about prices yet as I have only done it on family members walls but I just wanted to see if it would be viable part time work as I am a stay at home mum. Ideas/comments welcome.

Why am I always away around this time of the year?! This race sounds absolutely brilliant, I would love to see it - just my sort of fun! Barry Road racers I salute you.

I have sent an email, along with a link to the poster of Pat, to the Dulwich Park running club asking them to inform all their runners to keep a look out for him. They do circuits of about 8 miles twice a week so cover quite a large area. I will let you know if I hear back from them.

Contacting local running clubs might be a good idea as they would be able to get the message out to all their runners.