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Has anyone got any feedback from Mathnasium please? Interested in whether your kids have tried it and if it made a marked difference. Also I’d be interested to know how much you have paid. Message me on the latter if you prefer. Thank you!

They haven't improved. I can't get a Dr appointment even though I was told I needed one by a nurse there. Come back and call at 8am everyday until you're lucky... They are stealing a living and referring patients to 111.

Well still no sky broadband here - day 3 - no word from them either.

My sky broadband is off as well. We live close by. I called Sky over the weekend and it sounds like there?ll be no service till tomorrow or Wednesday.

Mike has just finished a rewiring job for us. He has been a pleasure to have in the house! Professional, knowledgeable, competent, calm and tidied up all of the plaster he had to gouge out of the walls! Id totally recommend Homecert.

Always an excuse, never built. This is a few years old now but still worth a read: http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/bakerloo-southbound-extension.html

They cannot be worn out oimissus! Where's the dancing and gym - and would you recommend - if you don't mind me asking?

Talk to me please about what classes your kids do/did at 4/5 years old. She does swimming lessons and gave ballet the heave ho but she loves art, drama and sport so I was thinking of signing up for 1 or 2 more after school or weekend classes and wondered which ones you'd recommend. Thanks!

James am I right in thinking that the Tories and Lib Dems sometimes like to work together...in say a coalition? And you seem ever, ever so helpful to Harris. Back on topic I will be objecting tonight. Harris should get on with building the school they already have a site for in ED before starting on this crazy plan.

James, what is your relationship with Harris - other than concerned local councillor of course. Do you have a day job that interacts with them? Or have they supported your campaign(s) in any way?

100% recommend, Sem is such a find. She came to mine today and threaded my eyebrows painlessly and attentively and did great waxing too. Next time we're doing a facial as well. V reasonably priced.

Thanks everyone. I think we might persevere with her using the scooter on quieter walks and having reins on the board in busier areas for a couple of weeks and then see how we're getting - although I suspect as snowboarder says, what we probably need to do for safety and sanity is buy another pushchair and sell the bee or throw it back in the loft. Snowboarder, I'd love your pushchair advice in case we need it, do you have any suggestions for my age ranges that will be mainly used for baby and will fit in the boot of a medium-sized car? And Otta, out of interest, did you end up buying another buggy after selling the board?

I bought a buggy board for our nearly 3 year old as toddler hates her maclaren and I thought I'd use the board with her old bugaboo bee for toddler and baby. We got the bugaboo board but the pushchair doesn't feel hugely stable with it on, she wants to get off all the time and walk (when she was strapped in the pushchair and there was only 1 child to watch this was an easier situation to manage!) and I feel that if she fell she's going to land on baby. I was wondering how others have gotten on with a board. Where are we going wrong? Does the baby cocoon have to be forward facing for the board to work on a bee? Was I being naive thinking I could get away with just buying a board instead of a double pushchair for a child under 3? Should we just give up and buy a p&t? (edited as I can't spell.)

Hello Everyone. Due to have my 2nd in early Jan, have joined the fb group and will definitely be up for some weekday meet-ups, look forward to meeting you all...and if anyone knows of any second-time mum meet-ups too then please let me know/DM me.

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A planning application 12-AP-3604 has been > submitted to turn the large ground floor of 41-43 > East Dulwich Road from offices into a shop - > probably another Tesco or Sainsbury's. > > The planning documentation is very sketchy - which > smells fishy. And the neighbouring residential > block hasnt been consulted. > > http://planningonline.southwark.gov.uk/AcolNetCGI. > exe?ACTION=UNWRAP&RIPNAME=Root.PgeResultDetail&The > Systemkey=9547428 > > If you think a new shop away from our high streets > should be stopped and/or that the parking is > already a nightmare around the Dulwich Leisure > Centre and this shop will make it much worse then > please object by emialing council planning officer > : [email protected] > > Please copy me into any email so I canhelp > coordinate objectors. > > To me this is a landmark planning application > about whether Lordship Lane is erroded away. > What's very curious is that Southwark Council is > the leaseholder (it used to be Dulwich Area > Housing Office) so they must be party to this in > some way. James, this is absolutely outrageous. Agree 100% with Neilson99 and DJKQ. If I was the developer (be that Tesco or small ethical shops r us) I would be scouring Southwark's Code of Conduct (I think you've ignored 5 of the 7 'Nolan' principles and 1 statutory principle in your post) and shouting predetermination as loudly as I could. This post is ill-judged and poor behaviour from an elected representative not in command of the facts; classic Lib Dem - unaccountable, start a populist campaign with half a story and now you've been called to account you'll either ignore the thread or blame the Labour Council or adopt your "moi?" Miss Piggy stance. On a similar subject, we all know that you're waiting for the day when M&S or Waitrose come to SE22 for COMMERCIAL reasons when you will try to take all the credit (undeserved, unless you get a job in the Waitrose Commercial Department) - I look forward to the leaflet of you outside the new store and an unsubtle underlying message that the Lib Dems have put 50k on local house prices and provided better access to high-quality passata. I know that's a rant but I've been watching you influence planning decisions on here for tooooo long.

Whoops, yes i did mean SE5 Ruffler.

There is a post office tucked away on Crossthwaite Avenue (SE15, just off Sunray Avenue) where I have never queued more than 5 minutes. Discovering it was a godsend!

Oh don't get agitated KestonKid, I'm quite relaxed about people having different opinions about a local clinic, I just think it strange that a very positive review has been written after so many negative ones and in quite a stooge-like writing style.

Mysteriously some nice comments about Melbourne Grove have now been added to the NHS Choices website and the most recent favourable comment is about as genuine as their commitment to patients. That clinic is a threat to public health, the fact my husband was hospitalised because of their incompetence obvs isn't an isolated incident. Given the doctors last a few months it seems strange that the rude receptionists are still thriving. We changed to DMC and I wished I'd switched sooner.

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What a racket. They were singing 'no surrender to the IRA' earlier. I wondered about wandering up there and letting them know about the Northern Ireland Peace Process!

"My suggestion that it was too hot in the summer to have the windows closed at our gigs was based on fact." But the licence said the windows had to be closed. So you were saying that you should have an exception. Or that the venue was unsafe to host gigs because of the heat. Either way you lose the job as PR for DHFC.

Thanks Ianr. Sue, am I right in understanding that you play gigs at DHFC and presumably some of the venues owned by the fella who owns the Victoria Inn and Actress? Strange that you are often defending/promoting them... Not to jump into yours and DJKQ's row but you did suggest it was too hot in the summer to have the windows closed at gigs on the noise pollution thread where Nick argued that black was white for a while. DHFC are hopeless neighbours and supporting them as a community club only applies if they act like members of the community. A *charitable* explanation is that they didn't understand their licence when it came to the hours they could serve alcohol. Confusion over minors' access to alcohol and understanding what a closed shutter looks like are harder to explain away.

Thanks James, appreciate it, the junction is really dangerous (and busy). I'll look up the boundaries and email the right councillors too. Couldn't you could get the traffic light sequencing through a FoI request?

I'm sorry I haven't checked the ward boundaries (or read back through this thread, I can't believe it hasn't been mentioned before) but is the junction of East Dulwich Road and Peckham Rye on your patch? When driving along East Dulwich Road (towards Nunhead) and turning right onto Peckham Rye the traffic lights are seriously badly sequenced. (You will recall there was a pedestrian fatality there a while ago there.) The amount of time allowed for cars to turn right is often not long enough for even one car to get through. As a result one almost always has to turn right as the light turns red or very quickly before the traffic starts to come from the other direction. This is really unsafe for the driver and pedestrians crossing by the Rye. Any info appreciated...thanks.