Howl

I'm not on Facebook....(just me?) Could do a WhatsApp group.....? Or if people could just regularly update the Edf page? At the moment looks like week nights seem to be easiest for everyone. We could do something like a doodle poll (this is where I duck under table in the knowledge that there's probably something way more trendy than a doodle poll). What can I say? I'm old.

I'd be up for that. I can do weekday eves, although they are harder with babysitting issues etc. Definitely cannot do Wednesdays as other half doesn't get home until much after 10. My preference would be weekend afternoon, but obviously will fit in with what the majority can do. (Glad there's someone else in the larger than average age gap, Alison! We told ours last weekend. He's 'processing' - i.e. didn't really have a reaction apart from saying he wanted a brother, has since not mentioned it.) Anyone else enormous already? Only c. 16 weeks but looking more like I did at 20+ with the first one. People are asking the twins question, even those who know I've had two scans: no, seriously, I don't think a high ranking research centre like the FMC at Kings would actually miss one at 12 weeks. C'mon.....

Hi! I'm due end of October with my second and keen to meet up with others in the area. My son will be 5 once this one comes along so I feel like I'm a new mum again to be honest - forgotten pretty much everything about the early months.... Looking forward to saying hello Ellie

Thanks so much for your responses. I really appreciate them. Will respond more fully soon! And I will pm you Ron70- thanks!!!

Has anyone tried depftord wavelengths for this. We were thinking of checking it out with our 2 year old?

Please share the cauliflower pizza base.... Pleeeez?

Argh! Genius bread! No no no Try the world food cafe books, lots there are gf Rice noodles are your friend, and gf spaghetti is so much better than it was. Frittata is a really good thing to have I the fridge. Tbh I find breakfast hardest, I can't have most gf cereal because I'm soy intolerant and you'd be surprised what it turns up in. Gf take away - pizza eXpress do gf, ganapati is pretty much gf, Thai is good (tends not to use soy sauce) What's the hardest thing for you? Were you very wheat based? I've been diagnosed since 2004 - if there was a cure tomorrow I wouldn't change my diet.

Thanks everyone - saved me a disappointment! I went to the Victoria inn about a year ago and thought it was a bit dirty and dingy. Realise that might be a partial view - any recent experience?

Putting feelers out to know what, if anything, I can do about this. I'm not going to name the nursery, as I think that would be pointless at this stage and just create bad feeling, but.... I put my son on the waiting list for a local nursery in May 2012. I paid the admin fee of 30 quid and, whilst saying that she couldn't guarantee a place for June 2013 when I went back to work, she said I should be optimistic. A year went by, no place. Fine. We put him into another nursery and was still set on moving him when a place came up. May 2014 - still no place -2 years later. I phoned and was told he was still on the list. Because we are looking for alternatives at the moment, I phoned again this month. The manager seemed to have no organised system - couldn't find us on the list over the phone- and later I received a stock email saying that there were no places for his age put he would still be on the list. To be honest, I think she's mismanaged the lists. My only other explanation is that she's taken against us in some way - can't see how, as I've only met her once on the tour, but it's been niggling at me that we had to put our occupations down and she might not have considered us worthy material. I want a refund, essentially. I don't think that my son had been given a reasonable chance of getting in to the nursery and I don't think we've been given adequate explanation for why - 28 months later - he still has no prospect of a place. I don't think he will be offered a place either. (On the phone, when I asked why it had taken so long, she asked if we were offered a place and turned it down - which we hadn't- so she obviously knows this isn't correct). Just wanted to see if anyone else had a problem like this? Am I being unreasonable in my expectations?

I can honestly say I had the university experience anyone else would want. London is big enough to feel like youve got your independence- it was a very different place for me when I went to uni, from school etc. I understand her viewpoint- completely valid- though I feel sad she's discounting it. I had a great experience where I was (UCL) both academically and socially. Having said that, maybe look over the student loans set up again- (do they pay for your fees, how much can you borrow?) maybe the whole thing feels so awful because our generation wouldn't have got in that much debt... But if its structured precisely to be affordable....

I'm sorry I can't help more on this thread... I really feel for your daughter. I work in HE and I have massive sympathy for the massive life choices this generation are being faced with, so young. Having said that... I went to uni in London, worked p-t the whole way through (helps if you do humanities, yoi can balance your time better) and was lucky enough to have parents who 1. Let me live at home and 2. Facilitated a reasonably independent uni life for me whilst doing so (didn't mind me being out a lot, coming back when I wanted, bringing friends- helped that I was the youngest I guess). London universities are incredible, world class, so she's in an excellent position. So costs will depend on: 1. What subject she wants to do and, realistically, how much can she work. Med school - I think you can get bursaries for ??? No expert on that though. I think Oxford and Cambridge would have money for highly desirable students... But I don't know on what terms or whether this applies to other unis/ I'm sure others will know- sorry for being rubbish. 2. Can you establish a set up for her at home that is more independent than school?