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DUCKS if you are OK with getting on a waitlist and waiting a while. They have the best forest school locally and the fees are in line with other nurseries despite the brand.

try 'lucy makes amazing cakes' (the actual company name). They're on facebook. Best value for price I've found locally.

Oh fair enough. I think they still don't bother to chase though, they just loudly threaten and their business is based around shaking as much money out of people as quickly as possible. I'd still ignore to be honest, and family members who have ignored have never seen any follow up.

Car parking fines are run by a private company and if memory serves correctly not actually enforceable. When my in laws got a fine from Sainsburys car park they just chucked it in the bin and never heard anything more on the matter.

There have been a lot of issues over the past few months with RM using temps, some of who have turned out to be thieves. This is well known in the area, and known by the Royal Mail also, as they have an ongoing investigation. I myself have had a number of items stolen (proved stolen, not just gone missing).

Peligoni club in Greece, though it will be hot. They specialise in getting secondary school age kids ganged up with others and doing sport, activities etc.

If your baby was born September the first thing I'd do is look on this forum for details of the autumn baby group (if August look for summer babies). There will be a whatsapp / facebook. The winter / spring / summer / autumn baby groups are started off on this forum, anyone can join and they are a great way of meeting other parents with babies the same age. I'm still the best of friends with other winter babies 2015 mums 3 years on. In terms of good stuff to do with a 3 month old, check out... Gymboree at Caf? G (google it) Rhyme time at either Dulwich library or Peckham library - various slots baby swimming? Loads of classes on at various warm hydrotherapy pools in the area Monkey music, loads of people rate it Heart beeps is a good baby sensory class, I think the version for little babies is called baby bells. Postnatal yoga with Michelle is very baby centric, built around nursery rhymes etc for the babies: https://www.michelemyoga.com/weekly-schedule.html Some classes are friendlier than others, just totally depends on the people who attend on the day. Some get taken over by NCT groups who only want to talk to each other, but don't give up. All that stuff should be sufficient to get you out and about and part you from your hard earned cash :-) Welcome to the neighbourhood!

Can anyone recommend a good kids party entertainer for a group of 2 and 3 year olds? I think they?re too little for a disco. Not lucy sparkles as we have a few of them in the diary already and would want someone different...

I just find it crazy the police won?t investigate. It?s surely just one or a few people who could easily be caught

I don?t send things either but unfortunately the banks do as standard

Sounds like the common thread more likely to be you... not to state the obvious but have you checked your house, cleaned out your fridge etc? Getting food poisoning from a restaurant is pretty unusual though it hapoens. When i had oyster poisoning it took 24 hours to kick in.

Has anyone else?s post started going missing since the closure of the silvester road sorting office? Over the past month I have had 2 debit cards not arrive (one of which was actually used a few times in Peckham before the bank stopped it), one credit card and some important legal documents all disappear. Local gossip is that there us a huge amount of criminal activity related to the Peckham sorting office and I wondered if anyone else has experienced the same. I have reported to the police who have advised they will be dropping the case without investigating (despite available CCTV etc), and have reported to the royal mail who claim they will investigate but... well who knows. Meanwhile not a single card or important document seems to make it through my letterbox unless it?s recorded delivery. Anyone know what we can do about this?

Really? I don't mind if neighbors want to have the odd bonfire. It smells but so do lots of things.

Uber or addison lee are fine. Don't worry, the waters breaking thing is not as dramatic as it sounds. Top tip for travelling in labour: wear tena lady pants to catch any drips. They are crazy absorbent and will soak up your waters if they break. Sorry if TMI :-)

Pot luck. We found shares through here and a website called nannyshare.co.uk (I think it was). Hang in there.

Upland road his big gardens :-)

Gosh how dreadful. There were some blokes hanging out in a van outside my house a while back - seemed dodgy so I went out to ask them if they needed some help. They said they were tree surgeons and as it happened we needed a tree taking out so i asked for a price and he gave a price I was ok with. Then he pressed me to get the cash out on the spot, i said no it wasn't a good time but could do the next week. Then he refused to give me his number and said he'd put a card through the door which he never did... I thought it was odd at the time as I'd have been happy to pay, and had them down for fraudsters. Wonder if it's the same chaps.

I did 'hypnobirthing' both times I was in labour. It's just about finding a dark little corner of your mind you can go off to where the pain doesn't phase you as much. Looked it up online but didn't feel I needed any courses or anything to crack it.

How disturbing. Although - what does an Albanian person look like? And how do Albanians look different to other people from Southeastern Europe...?

we've used him. Nice guy and does a good job.

I tried to do this when I was a teenager. My parents didn't ban me, they just said I'd have to pay to get it done out of my own money. I saved all my wages from babysitting etc and went to see some hairdressers. They all refused to do it. I'm glad now!

I would have thought with rape convictions as pathetically low as ever, ongoing gender pay gap and women murdered in acts of domestic violence every single day, the feminists would have bigger fish to fry than worrying which changing room people are going to use. Personally I don't imagine there are huge ranks of men queuing up to self identify as female given it's (out of the two options available) pretty much the crummier option. Good luck to em. Enjoy a lifetime of sexual harassment, getting overlooked in your career, comments about your weight and clothing choices from strangers etc, etc, etc.

Thanks all - so helpful! Feeling really inspired. The distance is a little over 8k which i know i can do quite easily from runs on the weekend, i?m just a bit nervous of traffic and fumes!

As the evenings are getting lighter i was planning to start running home to east dulwich from work at london bridge. Has anyone tried this and can recommend a nice route? Don?t much fancy jogging along the old kent road...

I just saw this - our winter babies club started on this forum is still alive and kicking, and there are lots of stay at home mums or parents who work part time on it, and loads of meet ups. Our babies are all 2 so a little older. It?s all through facebook, the group is called ?east dulwich winter babies club 2015/2016?, look it up and send a request and anna will add you. Also are you into fitness at all? It?s a bit out there but i go to some women?s only boxing classes which you can bring your child to and are a great way to meet other mums as the classes are very sociable. Training with pads, no punching each other!