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Hi, I'm looking for a short placement in a local primary school. I'm returning to teaching and want to offer art at primary level. I'd love to hear what parents think of the art provision in their child's school - good and bad!! Thanks.

We had our laptop, camera, flash, ipod, bike lock and wallet stolen in June on Overhill Road. They also took a rucksack to carry the stuff in (the cheek!) We were asleep in the next room which spooked me somewhat. Quite probably the same team. The police said that, more than likely, they would have handed the stuff immediately to someone else, so recovering practically impossible. The wallet was found in the bin with all the cards, so they probably didn't have anyone to pass them onto. Really sorry to hear your news. Hope you were insured!

On the way to school, walking down Underhill Road, I saw a woman driving her car with a toddler on her lap. I didn't get to memorise the numberplate or make if car. I am shocked that someone would drive like that. The kid looked like he was having great fun 'driving' the car. I really hope the driver was stopped.

I seem to remember peckham pool taking about two years...

He came on Saturday, just after I'd got back from Sainsbury's. Though I'd told him I didn't have the space for trays of frozen food in my freezer, he brought them in to show me. I was quite impressed and thought that if I did have the freezer space I would be interested. He was very friendly but did look a bit dejected when I said I didn't want anything, after nearly 25mins. I'd definitely consider it for parties and the like, though.

Upstairs downstairs! Upstairs is vile, too bright, yuk... Downstairs so much better, enjoyable, well lit

Hello, can't see this as having been discussed, sorry if it has... Not being able to use my oyster card at Peckham because I don't have (or need) a weekly travel card, is extremely frustrating! Why is it that I can't use it? If I forget, or don't have time to get a travel card, I have a choice of three long queues to get a ticket. This must be the same for a lot of occasional users, who live in London and have a charged oyster card. If I don't have a travel card, I pay for the return train ticket and the equivalent of a travel card for travelling on the buses and tubes using my oyster. Doesn't seem fair to me.

I just mean that if I go down to LL looking for some new clothes, check something out in Ed, go and have a look in Celestial, Petals, Sugar and then decide I want the thing I saw in Ed - it is quite a hike! :)

"Thing is, it is just so missable" I think part of the problem on the lane is that alot of good shops are just so far apart. Would it be so terrible if all the clothes shops were closer to each other, rather than them being on - Nortcross Road, one end of LL, the other end of LL, Melbourne Grove etc etc. That end of LL to me, is a committed walk with no guarantee of satisfaction. Being able to peruse stock and compare one shop to another should not involve a hike!

Mmm, I hadn't thought about the extra cars that would be around if it was filled with working people and what the neighbours might think - and I live on Overhill road!

I know! The luxury bit in the description is what really gets me - if the whole building was one or two apartments, that would be luxury!

I'm wondering if it might make sense to re-purpose this building as a small business development? It looks like they are never going to be occupied by residential tenants. However, as business units they may well be a far more attractive proposition. Does anyone know if this kind of switch is possible?

I had a meeting with a Medicare person, took nearly 2hours when they said it would take 30mins... They are the agency that puts together and provides the directory of local businesses to NHS staff. It seemed quite a good idea to me, but I couldn't afford the rates. The guy let me mull it over for 2weeks but I did have to sign there and then. I thought it was quite expensive and the directory quite poorly designed. But I also think that with so many NHS staff that there probably would be a return.

I live on Overhill Road which seems too hilly for either magazine's distribution network. Hooray!

there are several mutations of the norovirus doing the rounds... I have been suffering on and off with one version or other since well before xmas - lovely! glad you are feeling better :)

wot is a "lakeland" shop? doh...

My daughter (5) was chased and scratched on the face by one of two dogs who suddenly ran out from a hole in the fence at Beltwood House. I was livid! I saw the woman and told her what had happened and she said sorry... I'm amazed by this story!

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Oh what nonsense. The snow doesn't know 'that London is actually a global city' or that there's 'tourism is one of the few things that actually seems to be a revenue maker these days'. This is because snow is not at all clever. It simply drops out of the sky, in place of it's friend the rain, then floats around a bit and it usually doomed to melt on landing. Once in a blue moon, and far less often than in Toronto or Moscow, the snow thrives. Whole gangs of it take over the streets, molesting the progress of curmudgeons, wetting the clothes of innocent, and even stopping a few buses. OMG the world must be ending! I just saw the four horsemen of the Apocalypse slipping and sliding past the CPT, they should have left the horses in the garage/stable thing. But seriously. Were TFL, the Mayor, local or national govt to spend huge sums annually just in case this white scourge showed up and started bossing us about I can hear the Louisa style moaning already. I for one am perfectly happy with the buses stopping when it gets too snowy for them as I am not at all keen on being involved in bus sized traffic accidents. The transport system did not grind to a halt, die, explode, implode or get sold to foreigners. It was compromised for a day and even then didn't stop completely. ap

Alistair Darling? He seems to be buying most things these days.

the chandelier does a great cappuccino, and cafe 2050 on forest hill road has good coffee too.