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trinity Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > dc - excellent news for your daughter- lets hope > she enjoys basketball. Do girls not play netball > anymore? Thanks Trinity - she did enjoy it although 5 hours of pretty full on exercise a day left her somewhat cream crackered (I would have died). And yes - she'll be doing netball in her next 'module' - Personally I think we as a nation should concentrate on one or two sports we can excel at - instead of spreading ourselves thinly over everything - and rule the world in those: tiddlywinks anyone?

My daughter's at the Charter and they play rugby there - even she does 'touch rugby' and really enjoys it. She's also been identified as having an 'exceptional ability' at basketball although quite how they worked that out after a few weeks I'm not sure and neither is she. She suspects her talent is being taller than the other kids. Anyway she's on a special basketball training camp this week - it being half-term. Don't remember things like that 'in my day'.

You can't use parliamentary allowances for any form of hospitality.

It's always a problem for early adopters - you get shafted. The question is how the company deal with it. IMHO the BBC should have said when they got overwhelmed that 'we have high standards and we can't take your order because, if we did, we could't live up to those standards. Sorry - but try us again and you can be assured that, when we can take your order, you will receive the top quality service we pride ourselves on.' I think anyone would have respected that in the same way that people understand that you can't get into certain restaurants without booking in advance. A positive spin off is that I have now tried Spice Republic as recommended above - online order (slightly disappointing that you can't pay online as well but never mind). It was really very good and arrived in good time for us to witness the rugby thing with a full stomach. My veggie sister, who had over 20 options, was well impressed - her brain nearly exploded after so many years of so little choice! Will try BBC - now my closest takeaway - when the hysteria has abated. BTW there aren't thousands of BBC's - fewer than 20 on current count - hardly a multinational.

King's College Hospital has just sent out an email to its staff and members which includes a link to the petition. The link is also on Harriet Harman's website as well as Tessa's and Cllr Fiona Colley's. More info from her on campaigning activity at the station itself here: Cllr Fiona Colley Current count: 705

There's a great organisation who have a base at Dulwich Community Hospital on East Dulwich Grove called the Dulwich Helpline. They do great work with lots of local people. More info at: http://www.dulwich-helpline.org.uk/

The closest Streetcar is near East Dulwich station - in Besant Place http://www.multimap.com/clients/browse.cgi?client=mycar&lon=-0.078820&lat=51.462250&scale=10000&width=500&height=300&rt=browse2&reclimit=1 where the Grove Vale Depot used to be. There are other providers. City Car Club - www.citycarclub.co.uk - will have a site near North Dulwich station soon http://www.citycarclub.co.uk/cars/Delawyk_Crescent.htm. Streetcar are the closet to most of ED though

The robbery wasn't in ED apparently - they just ended up here after being pursued. I gather that they crashed into a rather rare tree rather than a lamp post but at least it was just a tree.

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Clearly the Forum is becoming a must visit for all sorts of journalists - see page 7 in today's SLP. To give you a flavour: "Writing on the East Dulwich Forum one mum said "Oh My God.""! and: "DulwichMum wrote: "These people are filth. They should be boiled in oil and have their children confiscated by social services.""