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  1. We stay here http://www.lamphutreehotel.com/main.html which is very friendly, has very reasonable rates, a great breakfast and a nice small pool. It's walking distance to the Khao San Road which I guess is either a plus or a minus!
  2. Coral Bay, Western Australia. Can't stand LA, it's cold and it's damp.
  3. My theory is that 5-10 years ago lots of young pre-family people/folks with very young kids moved in and promptly set about producing an unexpected demand for primary school places. That bulge in the number of primary aged kids will pass as those kids whose parents moved in 5-10 years ago get older. They won't be replaced at the same rate as the area is now unaffordable to the same sorts of family 10 years down the line - so demand for primary school places will fall. Those ED baby-boomers would once have been expected to move out of London for secondary school, but now they're more likely to stay (London's schools are better than they used to be and the gap between housing costs in London vs the home counties isn't as attractive as it once was). Probably all sorts of holes in my theory - but it does accurately describe my experience and the experience of very many families I know.
  4. There's also the adventure playground on Dog Kennel Hill and the Dulwich Constitutional Club.
  5. https://secure.thameswater.co.uk/dynamic/cps/rde/xchg/corp/hs.xsl/899_5787.htm 0.1ppm - that's for my specific postcode, but I would guess all ED would be the same.
  6. My experience was quite different. We went there several times and very much enjoyed it every time. They always seemed to have some nice specials on and there were a few Sardinian specialities on the menu which were a bit different to the norm - we have tried lots of different dishes there. Also I found them very friendly, not highly polished in the service department, I agree, but friendly and nice with children. I think it's very hard to make a go of a restaurant in that space. It might work better as a cafe - though we have quite a few of them already.
  7. Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm interested in what the good people on here > think is a reasonable distance for a KS1 child to > be travelling to school? Half a mile. That's Goose Green roundabout-ish to Heber-ish. But I'd expect to walk every day.
  8. Beckenham Spa has a heated pool with a moveable floor they use for lessons for little ones. Excellent teaching. Not sure if they do lessons on Saturday though.
  9. Fresh pasta, with good quality ingredients in the filling, hand made on site. Bear in mind overheads like rent and so on also. Sainsbury's fancy pasta retails at 1p per gramme http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/dairy-eggs-chilled/CategoryDisplay?langId=44&storeId=10151&catalogId=10122&categoryId=12266&pageSize=30&beginIndex=0&promotionId=&listId=&searchTerm=&hasPreviousOrder=&previousOrderId=&categoryFacetId1=&categoryFacetId2=&bundleId=&parent_category_rn=12157&top_category=12157&orderBy=PRICE_DESC#langId=44&storeId=10151&catalogId=10122&categoryId=12266&parent_category_rn=12157&top_category=12157&pageSize=30&orderBy=PRICE_DESC&searchTerm=&beginIndex=0. The B&S photo looks like the agnolotti cavour http://www.burroesalvia.co.uk/about-2-1/ which they sell for 2.7p per gramme. So yes, nearly 3 times the price of Sainsbury's pasta but the Sainsbury's version seems to have less expensive ingredients, and is made and bought on an industrial scale. Also, think of this ... if you boiled it for a couple of minutes, drained and shoved it in a pan with a bit of butter and sage, shoved a few rocket leaves on the side and served it on nice crockery, the additional production cost would be very small, but then you could charge ?8+ and that wouldn't be out of line with Scorsi and Morci, or the place down by the station, or anywhere else I can think of.
  10. Louisa, I'm afraid you've just given away that you're one of those speed daemons who insist on tearing along at dangerous speeds. The double pramers are probably just obeying the Southwark wide new limit of 20 strides per minute - which now applies to all pavements controlled by Southwark (95% of those in the borough). Maxxi I'm afraid widening the path would encourage more people to use it, creating more pollution as they perambulate, exhaling carbon dioxide, directly into the atmosphere - and right next to a school too. I think narrowing is the real answer. Finally I think it's about time the council offered free seating at strategic points along that path, limited to 1 hour and no return, Mon-Fri 7-6 and Sat 9-6.
  11. I used to aim to get the 8:19 DMK - ZFD. I know exactly where to stand on the platform such that I almost always got on the train. However that still means standing usually to City Thameslink. Up to Elephant, it meant standing in uncomfortably crammed conditions, ie. with no space whatsoever other commuters. The rolling stock is being replaced - I hope for something less geared towards people doing a trip from Sevenoaks to Luton (padded seats facing) and more geared to commuters (tube / overground style seating). DMK station was refurbished. Sadly they missed the opportunity to put an entrance/exit in Windsor Walk. The entrance/exit as currently structured is dangerously overcrowded and very badly structured for peak time. If a train is cancelled, the knock-on effect on the next train means that even knowing exactly where to stand at DMK, you still cannot always get on. Sometimes I'd get 8:26 - usually a bit quieter. You still have to know where to stand on the platform if you want to be reasonably sure of getting on (you won't if the 8:19 was cancelled or is so late the 8:26 is in front of it). As a new year resolution I've been going to work earlier. I've been getting the 7:37. Standing room only to Elephant, not usually as crowded as the 8:19, most days manage to get a seat from Elephant to ZFD. It has been on time once since I started getting on Mon-Fri from Jan 5th.
  12. If you're not bothered about the sun, I believe Centreparcs is very popular. I can't speak about it myself as never been / would never go as I do like the sun to be a part of a holiday. If it's warmth you want, depending on what you mean by 'warmth' by late March the Algarve might be warm enough or Greece. The canaries have a very consistent climate year round. So Lanzarote might be a good place to look at. Try the Princess Yaiza through Sovereign. Or book yourself of course. Lots of flights to choose from. Easy to get to, temps should be around 20something in Feb. Yaiza has a great kids club. It's a fair sized resort so there's lots of (good) eating opportunities and nice bars. It's a very family orientated resort - don't tend to get loads of people who've gone just to get drunk. Also in the Canaries the Gran Hotel Bahia del Duque on Teneriffe is wonderful and has an amazing kids' club. Worth looking at as out of school hols time you might get a great deal (it's normally very dear, but it is very good!). The Canaries tend to be more expensive than Sharm-El-Sheik which is another place I can recommend. Na'ama Bay is where all the nice family orientated hotels are. It's reliably warm, 20-odd again, possibly a bit warmer in Feb and certainly by March. The resort town is a fair size with loads of restaurants and bars. There's probably a bit more to do than in the Canaries - depending on what exactly floats your boat, but there's scuba diving, snorkelling, camel treks into the desert, dune buggy riding and if you want to get up really early you can do the pyramids in a day trip. Sharm's is cheap as chips at the moment so well worth a look. And it's very quiet I understand as the Russians aren't going (all staying at home, because of the economy etc) and lot's of people scared off by recent general political situation in Egypt. Not sure I would actually go to Cairo for the pyramids but Sharm is hundreds and hundreds of miles away across nothing but desert. That said, there have been threats to tourists in that are. Hope it is actually OK as we're going Feb half term! Check tripadvisor thoroughly for recent reviews. A good hotel I know is the Stella Di Mare - it's not on the strip but it's good, has it's own pontoon for snorkelling and runs a free shuttle into the resort at reasonable times (especially if you have a little one). Hope you find something you enjoy!
  13. DulwichBorn&Bred Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Heber is tiny so I wouldn't use that as comparison Sorry, my mistake. Heber's OS space is indeed tiny c.1,600m2 - got my decimal in the wrong place. Apologies.
  14. The NHS have not been approached yet about the land yet in regards to the bid. The bid must first be successful, then the Education Funding Authority (EFA) will try to find a suitable site. Argument is that there is only one suitable site - Dulwich Community Hospital. NHS may or may not sell the land to the EFA. Even if they do, they have said, I believe, that they cannot release any of the land for building on until 2017. So the new school would need temporary accommodation for the first few years. No one seems to know where that might be, or no one is willing to say ...? Unless someone here knows different? If the NHS sell the land to EFA, EFA have a priority at the moment for building a primary school for Nunhead on the site - though hopefully local consultation will show that the primary is not needed and not a suitable location to meet demand in Nunhead. It's well worth having a look at the relevant communications here http://www.tessajowell.net/campaigns/ It's great news that the Charter team are through to the next step and I wish everyone involved good luck getting the bid through and getting the school built.
  15. James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This is good news for both bids. Hopefully > different sites for each will be found! I thought there weren't any other sites? Where might these other sites be? Any thoughts you can share? > The total site is 28,300m2. > NHS are suggesting they need 7,000-9,000m2 28.3 - 9 = 19.3 > Secondary school would ideally be 19,500m2 28.3 - 9 - 19.5 = -0.2 That's more than the whole site used up already. > 10,045m2 of floor space so a ground and 3 > storey building rather than 2 storey would have a > land foot print of 2,550m2 Does land footprint mean the area taken up by the actual building? Harris Boys ED on that basis has a land footprint of 3,330m2 and doesn't seem overly large for a secondary school. Are you sure you could fit the secondary school on the space you've detailed? > leaving 16,950m2 for out door space, etc > and reducing the total space > required to 18,600m2. Sorry, I don't understand how it reduces the total space required to 18,600m2. I'm probably being a bit hard of understanding. 19.5 - 2.55 = 16.95, got that bit, but 18.6 - 2.55 = 16.05 Have I misunderstood? Or are you saying the outside space reduces to 16,050m2? I suppose that's enough for two football pitches. If you can get the school that small. But then you'd like to see a primary built on that as well, correct? > Primary school would ideally be 3,000m2. Leaving 13,050m2 playing space for the secondary - this is about the same playing space as Heber has if you combine the playgrounds together. > I think it perfectly feasible to house all three > on this site without much imagination. I think I disagree. But maybe I got all the numbers wrong. > So the issue is one of whether any of them aren't > needed or needed on a smaller scale. All will have > further consultation. I think you might be literally the only person who thinks this site is suitable for the Nunhead Primary. > My biggest fear is that any change of government > will see the health facilities go back onto the > slower burner for another 20 years of delay > scuppering any new school on the site. But perhaps there are other sites available? See point 1.
  16. Could you say where? I have signed the forms supporting the bid, but now I can't see how the school will be an option for my daughter. She'd need a place in Sept 2017 - but the school will then still be some years away from being able to move out of temporary accommodation.
  17. Do you know where it might open? I believe the NHS can't release any land for building on until some point in 2017.
  18. James wants a Harris primary on that site, as far as it's possible to tell.
  19. For the finger problem, this, https://tguard.com/products/fingerguard/
  20. QueenMab - there have been 3 incidents at this junction, all severity=slight, since 2005. It doesn't appear to be a dangerous junction. Nunhead_man - it's simple, easy and quick to hop off a bicycle and wheel it over a pedestrian crossing if you're not feeling confident about riding through it. It's not possible for most people to push a car. And I think comments like yours just add to the general sense that many none cyclists seem to have that cyclists are self obsessed idiots with no sense of perspective. Declaration: I drive, I cycle, I use that junction very often.
  21. James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes voters with children already in primary > schools support a secondary school and don't want > more primary school places. Are you surprised. > Parents without places in primary schools have > said they want primary school places. Are you > surprised. They have different interests and the > experiences of people with kids in primary schools > is mostly that they achieved the places they > wanted. So of course they don't see a need. James, the need for primary places was in Nunhead, wasn't it? Where's the evidence the anyone supported two Harris primaries? Or two primaries of any brand? What was it they were asked to sign up to? Doesn't the council data now show there will be enough primary places to meet demand - Ivydale expanding, Harris primary on the police station site - and that we do not need another primary school in the area? To declare my interest, I have a daughter in year 4. So I've realised that the new secondary will not open in time for us whatever size it is. But the wishes of the local community seem to be that they want a decent sized secondary, not a primary on that site. I'd have thought you'd see it as your job to represent those views. I'm very much reminded of this http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,772215,page=46
  22. Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This thread is getting silly. You all seem to > think that James has a lot more sway than he > probably does have. I'd like to know what his views are as he seeks to be an elected representative of the local community. I'm sorry if you think that's silly.
  23. @James Barber - Can we count on you to fight any plans to build a primary school on the hospital site?
  24. Also most of the primaries now teach uke, so it's all round a better bet. The music shop near the station helped us a lot finding a good tutorial book. Also have a look at you tube - there's loads of tutorials on there as well as tuners etc.
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