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sue k harding Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > mmmmmmm my app still isn't working Delete it and re-install it.

Scouts, girlguides, but mostly the local schools. If you're 18+ you can do Gold direct. AFAIK it's all on hold with everyone because of covid

The app is also working again now.

When you say private, do you mean one-to-one? If that's because your kid is very nervous they may benefit from starting at Beckenham Spa - in the group lessons which means they'll be in with "friends". The teaching pool is warm as a bath and the floor is moveable so they start the tiny ones off just walking across the pool. Before you know it they are dunking them in the deep end of the main pool and have them doggy paddling back. It's well over 10 years since we did this but the teaching then was superb and I know the facilities are still excellent. So may be worth a look. If you do mean one-to-one Beckenham may still be able to connect you to a teacher. JAGS Sports Club certainly can - give them a ring on 020 8613 6500. Dulwich College also has a sports club and there is private swim teaching out of there - https://www.dcsportsclub.co.uk/freelance-swimming/ Both JAGS SC and DCSC do group lessons too but I think the kids may have to already be 4 before they can go on the waiting lists for group lessons. Finally there's also Tigersharks locally - group only, I think, but they do take very little ones, I believe / and you can go with them. Otherwise there are people like Swimming Nature who are good, but not local. Hope that helps, and drop me a PM if you don't get anywhere / want to talk. I've been involved with kids swimming for a long time now, but I'm afraid I am not a teacher.

Quite a lot of people we know, including ourselves, have taken advantage of the superb primaries in the area and then gone private for the transition to secondary. There are good private schools that are not pressure cookers. St Dunstan's and Sydenham High both get good results but are by no means exam factories and offer lots of choice to nurture interests both academically and non-academically. Some of the local state secondaries are fabulous, but of no use to you if you know you won't get into them from where you live. We hoped for state secondary, were aware that we might not get anything we wanted, made a back up plan for private secondary, and in the end our daughter liked the school (Sydenham High) so much that we decided it was the right place for her anyway, regardless of the state offer outcome. If you have more than one, bear in mind you'll very likely want them to go to the same place. It just makes life logistically less challenging. You'll also get a discount after first kid. Nevertheless 2 kids in private school is a lot of money. And for your kids' long term outcomes, you may be better off investing that money into shares for them in a trust fund for when they reach adulthood. Much will depend on how much of an 'absolutely not' your likely state secondaries are. Finally - it's easy to argue from the extremes on this. We all know of kids who've been private all through and come out of it unable to hold a fork and a conversation at the same time. And equally kids who went to failing schools in sink estates where every lesson was disrupted by trouble, and who nevertheless went on to excel academically. But on the whole, private schools get better results, have better facilities, offer more choice to support kids' interests, and are better able to get the best outcomes for kids - exactly because they have better facilities, smaller classes, and less in-class disruption to have to deal with which makes more time and space for teaching and the bit that really makes the difference, discussion about what's been taught. Good luck, whatever you decide.

Interesting. So if I am interpreting those results correctly, the evidence is incontrovertible that if all the people who've ever cycled or walked or skipped or scootered (non-electric) or swam (when the floods were on) through the Herne Hill underpass, had in in fact done that at the same time, each person in their own individual articulated stretch lorry, the queue would have gone all the way to JAGS and back and therefore it's just as well those people who keep cycling up and down Melbourne Grove have nothing better to do. I think I've got it. The LTNs are here to stay.

The photo booth in Sainsbury?s Dog Kennel Hill. It is ?6 for 4 but you also get a code which when you do your passport application online you just pop in when asked and automagically your approved photo is there. Went a couple of weeks ago so defo open in lockdown. Tried taking photos at home with phone but couldn?t get any without shadow etc. The booth shows you what the photo will look like before you accept them so you can make sure they meet all the criteri.

Hello councillors. The recycling collection on Bawdale road was missed last Tuesday. It?s now been 3 weeks since the recycling was collected. I put in a missed collection report so mine was collected last week but the rest of the street still need a catch up collection. I can?t work out how to report this. Can you help?

Good luck with it all AnnieC. Rent is going to be your biggest outlay, so as tomskip says I would use https://www.rightmove.co.uk/ to have a look around. You can set the search for South East London and filter by property type, minimum beds. maximum price etc. If you could go down to 3 beds it would make quite a difference in price and perhaps not that much difference to your lifestyle. Just a thought. A car will probably make your life significantly easier. If only for ferrying the kids to and from activities. Obviously it will depend on exactly where you live and if you're all stay at home sorts - but for most SE London families I would say a car is a necessity. You can budget by having a look on https://www.autotrader.co.uk/ On our narrow Victorian Streets most cars get quite a few dents and scratches. We've generally gone for a 2-3 year old Ford with reasonable milage and then not worried too much about the paintwork. The biggest supermarkets where you could budget a monthly shop would be tesco.com and sainsbury's.co.uk For transport costs have a look here https://tfl.gov.uk/fares/find-fares?intcmp=54646 If you are going to be going to Old Street 5 days a week, you're better off with a monthly pass. For anything less, you can just pay as you go with any contactless bank card and you get all the benefits of price capping etc. This is useful for info https://visitlondon.com/traveller-information/getting-around-london/do-kids-need-an-oyster-card

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- .... > any difference in the ****router**** performance, .... > Why? BT owns Plusnet and they use the same kit in > the exchanges. The BT router is better spec'd than the PN one, so that's why you'd perhaps expect to notice a difference. Sue didn't, I certainly did!

You can't pay with cash, so it's either an Oyster or just use a contactless bank card. Just be super careful to always use the same card to make sure you get charged the correct price and benefit from daily and weekly capping. NB: monthly capping doesn't apply to contactless yet, so if you're going to be travelling several times per week a monthly travel card might be better value and you can only get that on an Oyster as far as I know.

nxjen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And outside the gym and cinema Yes. The angles are deceptive. Looks like there's five paving slabs between ESPH and the bus stop and six between the PO bust stop and the dry cleaners. The difference being that there's often a queue of people outside the post office in that six tile space, whereas at the stop outside ESPH people queue alongside the road for the bus.

I hammer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes I saw him one morning cycling over London > Bridge. > He's a man of the people. I saw him on London Bridge once. Wish I'd chucked him in the Thames now.

nxjen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The pavement is very narrow there and when there > are people waiting for a bus it is impossible to > walk by and maintain social distancing without > walking in the road. Street widening on the other > side of the road is irrelevant. It?s no more narrow than the stop outside the post office. Especially when there?s a queue of people along the wall for the post office

nxjen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > TfL have done the correct thing in closing the bus > stop to safeguard pedestrians. It?s in a part of > Lordship Lane where traffic is heavy, regardless > of what?s happening on the other side of the road, > and pedestrians should not have to walk in the > road there to maintain social distancing. Outside > Mrs Robinson?s would be a far better permanent > position. > > ETA Someone said further up the bus stop shouldn?t > be closed because it meant the elderly and > disabled would have further to walk. Should just > like to point out that pedestrians trying to pass > those waiting for the bus, and the actual > structure of the shelter, also include the elderly > and disabled, and people with push chairs, who > should not be forced out on to the road. The bus stop is on the other side of the road from the street widening. No one would be forced into the road by the bus stop being open.

Bic Basher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The bus stop affected is considerably narrow, so I > understand why they've done it, but I would like > to see it reopen or replaced to a wider part of > the pavement as a temporary measure. Do you mean there's no indent into the pavement where the bus stop is? That's true. But the barrier they've put in to widen the pavement on the east side of the street is only half as wide as the cars and vans that used to be parked there. So as a driver heading south you've now got MORE room than you had before, not less. Plus being barriers rather than vehicles there'll be no pedestrians walking out from behind parked vehicles. So all in all I would say it is now safer to have the bus stop there than it was before.

Is there a means to complain about the closed bus stop? I cannot find anything useful on TFL?s site.

Is it permanently closed?

Abe_froeman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > cyclists and pedestrians spend > more money AFAIK that's not true but a misinterpretation of a TFL study - from the team set up to encourage cycling - which fails to account for weight (frequency) of visit * spend.

march46 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > People walking and cycling spend more time and > money in local shops It isn't as straightforward as that, sadly. The research published by the TFL team !NB: set up to promote cycling! that has led to this broadly held misinterpretation of the data actually says that pedestrians and cyclists spend less per visit. They spend more over the course of a month, but that's because they visit more frequently. So for example ... Anne lives local, walks to Ye Olde Hi Street Shoppe 4 times per month and spend ?2 per visit = ?8/month vs. Sue who drives once per month but spends ?6. If you know of other data, I would be keen to see it.

I think t might be less to do with Covid logistics and more to do with money https://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/10361

See this ... https://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/10361 Doesn't bode well, I'm afraid.

In normal times, I would daily take the 07:50(ish) from ED to LBG and would not only expect to get on the train, but would expect to be able to get a seat, and mostly without someone in the seat next to me. This, however was due to an extremely cunning strategy I developed, which almost no one else seems to have alighted upon (excuse the pun) of boarding at the back of the train - the last couple of carriages rather than the first couple of carriages! You'll be fine.

As various have pointed out the fibre bb I the area comes from BT?s pipes regardless of who you buy it from. Some people will notice a difference between provider because - the routers are different - they?ve signed up to an unlimited deal whereas before they were throttled or vice versa - when the changes were made at the exchange a problem in previous set up was corrected Most people can vastly improve their wifi speed by doing a search on you tube and following a few tips about where to put your router and how to set it up. I have flip-flopped between BT - Sky - Plus Net over the last 10 or so years based on who would offer the best deal. The plus net router is horrible if you have a place on different floors or lots of stuff between it and where you mostly use the wifi. BT?s is probably the best router and Sky?s is close (and this May have changed recently -they do sort of go neck and neck). But I?d advise anyone with a house to invest in a mesh router (easily bought on Amazon or in Argos). I bought a very basic system for ?200 and the wifi is like a rocket all over the house. Just plugged it into the PlusNet modem and followed the prompts on the phone app that goes with the system and that was it. The same system will work regardless of which provider's modem you are attaching it too.

We had 2 Maclaren Techno XTs https://www.amazon.co.uk/Maclaren-Techno-XT-Stroller-lightweight/dp/B078WW18HQ Really not fashionable. It will do nothing whatsoever for your yummy mummy / yummy daddy creds. However, it is sturdy, light, does not require an evening being briefed by the engineering department at UCL in order to assemble it, has no unnecessary bulk, lasts forever (ours went from lay flat baby to 'crikey, they really should be walking on their own now') and with a soon learned knack it is possible to put it up / down with one hand and one foot whilst holding onto a child, a take away coffee and waving at the 176 with the other foot. Good luck. All that is well over a decade behind me. So perhaps check for more up to date facts.