tracymcdavis

Did your post-lockdown resolutions include something about "giving back" to your local community? - Let us help you with that! Volunteer with us for 90 minutes a week (and just in term-time) with our local Brownies group. We meet on Monday evenings from 6 to 7:30 pm at a local school off Lordship Lane. We are a non-religious, non-denominational group - no church parades or other things you remember from the 1970s. We are just interested in giving girls aged 7-10 an adventure packed programme. By volunteering with us, you can help girls build their confidence, learn new skills and have loads of fun. You don't need any experience - just a willingness to pitch in and enjoy yourself. You can be aged 18-80 and you don't have to be female (although I admit most of guiding is). You will be CRB (criminal record) checked if you do decide to volunteer with us regularly - as anyone working with children is of course. If you'd like to find out more - please PM me and I'll happily call or email more information. Thanks Tracy 15 East Dulwich Brownies

Another vote for Deep Sea on Vestry Road. Really lovely chips and mushy peas - I'm afraid I cannot comment on the fish as I'm a veggie. ---edited to change pies for peas - mushy peas = lovely, mushy pies - not so much---

It is at Harris Academy Peckham - the entrance they use is on Lyndhurst Way

I second that TownleyGreen - but we just put all our meat waste (just cat food in our household) in a box in the freezer and transfer it across on bin day. The rest of our waste doesn't seem to attract any "fly babies".

Thanks everyone - lots of great suggestions. We ended up getting a treasure train around southwark - although we slightly curtailed it due to the heat.

Thanks for the tip on the treasure hunts - really love that idea. I think we might head in to do the Southwark one with Borough Market and HMS Belfast.

Thanks! Funnily enough somebody suggested a treasure hunt that includes HMS Belfast so I think that might work. You re so right - it seems a funny age- it was so much easier when they were 5 and a trip to Peckham Rye was amazing :)

Help needed please! My sister and her two children are visiting from out of town for the weekend - I don't have children and so I'm not very with it on great activities out locally. I'm looking for something to do with them on Friday, preferably locally as we are going into town Sat and Sun. They are aged 10 and 11 - one girl and one boy. We are in Peckham - but Camberwell, Dulwich even out to Brixton all good! Doesn't need to be free. We already have the crazy golf at the Horniman booked for Saturday morning. This time last year we did a chocolate bar making workshop at the museum of Chocolate in Brixton - which I am still earning good Auntie-points for :-) Thanks in advance Tracy

Help needed please! My sister and her two children are visiting for the weekend - I don't have children and so I'm not very with it on great activities out locally. I'm looking for something to do with them on Friday, preferably locally as we are going into town Sat and Sun. They are aged 10 and 11 - one girl and one boy. We are in Peckham - but Camberwell, Dulwich even out to Brixton all good! Doesn't need to be free. We already have the crazy golf at the Horniman booked for Saturday morning. This time last year we did a chocolate bar making workshop at the musuem of Chocolate in Brixton - which I am still earning good Auntie-points for :-) Thanks in advance Tracy

Some Whetherspoons have indeed started doing pizza...https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/food/pizza . Not in Peckham last time I was there but did have one down in Ramsgate

I don't - but I am accurately reporting what crossed my mind when I read it. Fair play - it's true - other women can have no clue what other women have to live with too. But that didn't cross my mind at the time. I don't care if it's a man or a women - I care about what has happened. I just think there are circumstances when a rigid rule can be unfair to people we would usually all want to help. I think it's an issue that is important enough to be pointed out and it could be so easily solved. I want women to be able to provide for themselves and feel safe in their own homes. That's it.

I wanted to say exactly the same thing Sue but knew I'd could be hammered as I have used Jennifer's business and would be seen as biased - I've met the lady in question once. It's nice to know that any women who has concerns for her safety will be treated with such understanding and kindness. While I do understand that Admin has to have rules to ensure businesses are real, surely there is a case for being able to provide alternative evidence - or should any women, who let's face it could have suffered stalking or domestic abuse, not be allowed to advertise their business whilst also keeping themselves safe. It struck me as just so typical of men not having the first clue what many women's normal everyday life is like and how we have to be constantly on guard and afraid.

Did your New Year's resolutions include something about "giving back" - let us help you with that! Volunteer with us for 90 minutes a week (and just in term-time) with our local Brownies group. We meet on Monday evenings from 6 to 7:30 pm at a local school off Lordship Lane. We are a non-religious, non-denominational group - no church parades or other things you remember from the 1970s. We are just interested in giving girls aged 7-10 an adventure packed programme. By volunteering with us, you can help girls build their confidence, learn new skills and have loads of fun. You don't need any experience - just a willingness to pitch in and enjoy yourself. You can be aged 18-80 and you don't have to be female (although I admit most of guiding is). You will be CRB (criminal record) checked if you do decide to volunteer with us regularly. If you'd like to find out more - please PM me and I'll happily call or email more information.

An american colleague of mine was made redundant earlier this year and had to leave the UK. She's moved back to the US and she has now decided to stay there. I have been storing the stuff from her house, as she originally thought she would be coming back to the UK. Now we want to get her stuff shipped across to her as economically as possible - but it's not something I know much about (to say the least!). Does anybody have any advice on good, cheap ways to do this? It's general household move stuff - about 30 boxes of books, clothes, pictures etc (although I imagine we will do some pruning of that before sending especially if it effects the cost). Timing is not an issue at all. Thanks!

Hi. I run one of the Brownies units in East Dulwich (at St Anthony's school) and I have had young DoE volunteers before and would be happy to consider your daughter. If it's of interest please PM me and we can have a chat (FYI - from Sunday, I'm going away for 10 days so may not be able to answer messages quickly).

The Prince of Wales always has weird connotations for me - I grew up in Cardiff when it was the infamous porn cinema. The place your mum would hate walking in front of and would pull you along in case anyone in a mac would appear. Having now been in the pub - that cinema must have been gigantic!

Hi Jenna If nobody else comes forward, I would take them off your hands for my Brownies / Girl Guides groups as we often do sewing related crafts. However, it depends where you are as I have no transport. I'm in Peckham / Camberwell side. Tracy

Just seen this on the BBC - looks like they may have a suspect for at least some of the killings outside of London. But not yet clear if all killings around the UK are same person of course - heaven forbid there is more than one of these monsters out there. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-42576471

Can I add my voice to the appeal for the RSS feeds to come back please!

Where/what time is the meeting on September 20th? - I don't see details on the links on previous messages. I also live on Lyndhurst Grove, right where the road narrows to one lane, and the increase in traffic has been absolutely terrible - I have seen two arguments that have almost come to blows - and get horns beeping outside constantly. With the primary school just one block down - that has to be the main concern for everyone surely.

Hi. I bought one of these just before Xmas - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01GKT4CKS/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and I've been really impressed for such a low cost machine. Its quiet, the picture is good as long as you have the room reasonably dark. On the minus side - the instructions are laughable and i needed to buy an extra cable to work with my phone. Its got a speaker built in but I link mine to external speakers as I generally use in a large hall.