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Argos has them. ?19.99 In stock at Doh Kennel Hill. Just checked. I think it probably does mean you'll have to queue to get in, but the website is saying order now and collect from 10am. This is what you want ... https://www.argos.co.uk/product/1168790

I am not sure they do exist as a going commercial concern. If you are all Apple, life is quite simple. You set up all the kids accounts under family sharing and can control access from your iPhone. You can set some things to be allowed all the time (maybe phone calls for example) and other things limited to within certain hours and with a time limit too - so for e.g. Instagram can be used between 8am-9pm for a max of 90 mins. The limits work across all devices they are signed into with their apple ID, including iPhone, iPad and Macs. The kids can request extra time from the app they want to use and you'll get an alert on your iPhone and just allow / deny from there. It can be handy if you know it's for homework etc. You can make an appointment for a call with an Apple Genius and they'll sort you out over the phone. Just look up support on the website. I have no idea if there's an Android equivalent, but possibly so. Your Internet Service Provider should be able to tell you over the phone if you can and how to create a second network from you router and how to set-up when it's in operation. I have no idea about Sky or PS4 etc. Hope you get something sorted.

Both seem to be great community schools. If your gut is telling you Heber - then go that way. Are all the open days done? If you have specific questions or concerns you could email the schools and see if you can go back for a revisit. Ours went to Heber and had a fantastic primary education there. They seemed to be fantastic with kids who needed extra support. But I am sure others would say the same about GR. If you are really unsure which, go with the nearest. Good luck.

Try http://www.spanishandcoffee.co.uk/

I have a daughter there in year 9. She didn?t go to the junior school (went co-ed state) joined Syd year 7. She?s been very happy there. Pastoral care has been great. Academically I think they do push kids who they think will respond to it. It?s certainly not a pressure cooker, but like any school, they are Very well aware of the kids they can squeeze a couple of 8s and 9s out of. Like all schools they publish their GCSE results, which seem to be very good an improving. I think Mrs Woodcock does have a plan and ambition to strengthen the academic side of the school overall. It?s a very small school but they offer everything most would want at GCSE and promise to be super flexible for GCSE choice. Though of course there are limits. We?re happy enough with it. Though it?s not without its faults - but then nowhere is. Overall I would recommend it.

EDmummy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why not just restore the original ticket hall and > use the existing entrance for exiting only? Am I > missing something? I think they?d be reluctant due to the money made from leasing to the cafe and the pub.

I used to go to Ken?s when we lived in Brixton, but since we moved to ED I have been going to Emily?s Plaice on North Cross Road. He takes the skin off the fish for me, which I prefer, and everything is fried fresh. Pretty good prices. And he?s a very nice chap.

For community schools in Southwark (and Lewisham) the distance data in the starting school booklets doesn't include siblings. Sibling places are allocated before places are allocated based on distance. Distance is irrelevant to a sibling place. That's for the community schools, e.g. Heber, Goodrich, Dog Kennel Hill ... the ones featured in the council booklets. The other schools, e.g. Goose Green, Harris Primary ED - i.e. the ones _not_ in the council booklets, are academies and are responsible for their own admissions arrangements. Those you'll generally have to ring up and ask what was the furthest non-sibling distance based place they offered. Faith schools have arrangements which are different again. A reasonable, though not infallible guide, is where the older kids of your neighbours go. Not infallible because of random factors - e.g. some years are abnormally lumpy on sibling places which means fewer places offered on distance which means that particular year you'd need to live nearer than other years to get in. I hope that's vaguely useful.

Put new batteries in the remote. Fixed? Turn the tv off. Unplug it. Leave it like that overnight. See if that fixes it. Dig out the manual or find it online. See if there is a factory reset button/procedure. Call Ghostbusters.

Went last night. Same order we always have. Same food and same service and that's just fine by us as we like the place. And, in important news, the laughing buddha is back in the doorway.

Yep - Duolingo is fantastic. It keeps a record of how many days in a row you have practiced - so you could reward that behaviour, which might be useful as an incentive - and it makes language learning a game. AFAIK a lot of local secondaries still start with French in yr 7.

If you think a child is in immediate danger you should call the police on 999 or the NSPCC on 0808 800 5000 It doesn't matter what the relationship is between the child and the adult.

No CPZ no income from CPZ No income from CPZ, no money for roadworks and contracts with Conway. No contracts with Conway, no projects you can put your name to. No projects you can put your name to, no point in being a councillor. So, even if it turns out only a tiny handful of people want it, we will be having a CPZ. I do sincerely hope I am wrong, on every point.

bels123 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > http://content.tfl.gov.uk/walking-cycling-economic > -benefits-summary-pack.pdf > > I wonder if the LL businesses have considered the > points raised here? A lot of positives if > customers walk/cycle v drive. TfL are quoting meta research (that's review of various other bits of research) by living streets.org.uk - "The UK charity for everyday walking" who assert on their homepage, "Pavements are for people - not for parking, clutter, or electric vehicle charging points." The actual report is here https://www.livingstreets.org.uk/media/3890/pedestrian-pound-2018.pdf It is a curated selection o research findings that support Livingstreets' objectives. Even the report itself actually says in the editorial that the evidence is not conclusive and that it's very hard to apply any given findings. This is because places vary a great deal in their circumstance and none of the findings are in a scientific context. They are just observations. Whilst it may be true that on Bloor Street in Toronto cyclists spend more than those who drive, it may also be true that those who cycle to Bloor Street in Toronto live nearby and are students and spend half their day hanging out in cafes and bookshops and those who drive to Bloor Street in Toronto live far away and drive in to work in the cafes and bookshops. We don't know. And neither do Living streets, and neither do TfL. And it's certainly a leap of faith to suggest that if you introduced a CPZ people shopping on LL would spend more.

Rockets Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was positively encouraged by both the huge > numbers of people who have signed the various > petitions in the shops of Lordship Lane at the > weekend and the passion with which the shopkeepers > are trying to fight the CPZ. I think, unfortunately, if even a very small minority of people on a very small number of streets support it, the council will roll it out in the whole proposed zone. I lived on the Shaftesbury estate in Battersea in 2001/2 and was astonished to find a CPZ was being introduced. When we lived there it was very unusual not to be able to park right outside your house. Council still put a CPZ in though. When I asked them why, they said a tiny number of people had responded in favour (e.g. like 23) to a consultation I did not even recall receiving. That was Wandsworth, but I'd expect Southwark to be the same.

rollflick Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > bonaome - the reason is once you get in a car you > may as well keeping on driving to the supermarket > etc. That's why enabling people to walk and cycle > more is good for local shops. That conclusion doesn't follow. The TfL meta-research selected for the pack says that people on foot spend more (roughly double, I think it said) and that half as many people drive as walk (it actually says 40% - but to keep the maths simple ...) so, 2 people come on foot and spend ?10 each, 1 person drives and spends ?10. Total spend ?30. ?20 spent by people who walk, i.e. twice as much as the ?10 spent by the driver, who is outnumbered 2:1 by pedestrians. I'm not saying the above is right. But it does fit the statistics TfL offer. And another possible conclusion is that the only reason the driver stops to spend ?10 on LL is that they are already in their car on their way to Sainsbury's to do a big shop. If they can no longer park in the side streets off of LL and pop in for a coffee and a bun at Jade or busy a nice card from Greetings etc, then perhaps they simply won't come and spend on the lane will drop.

Zig-Zag Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I imagine the reason they found people spent more > when they come to Lordship Lane by foot or public > transport rather than by car is because those > shopping by car only have a short window of time > to shop before they risk a parking ticket! Unfortunately, I think the answer may be even simpler. In the TfL research pack on the economic benefits of cycling/walking etc, next to the box that says people on foot spend up to 40% more, is a box saying people on foot also come twice as often. I'm reminded of when once TfL shared with me (on a professional basis - I once managed some of their advertising) the great news from a survey they had commissioned that cycling rates in London had risen dramatically! And the number of people thinking about cycling had doubled!! Sadly, they were looking at two waves of research, one conducted in November and one in July.

Peckhampam Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Seems we have a problem on Lordship Lane. Surma > has a 1, and Dulwich Tandoori a 2. By contrast > Ganapati and Jafflong both had 5 Looked these up recently and rightly or wrongly it has put me off the places with 1 and 2 stars. Most places on the lane seem to be 4 or 5 though. I get the comments above from a while back saying you can lose stars for a crack in the ceiling but without knowing why somewhere has a low rating ...... well, there?s lots of choice amongst the places that have 4s and 5s. Spice Republic has a 5 I think so I am planning to try a take away from there.

Intimate? In ED - Franklin's, Yamo Momo, or the new fish place next to Moxon's.

Might be worth thinking about Sydenham too. It?s girls day school trust. I only have direct experience of the senior school, which is great, but friends have daughters in junior school and all seem happy with it.

mayo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My eldest swam with tiger sharks for a > while and I didn?t rate their teaching personally, > I thought it was better suited for children who > already have good technique and wanting to improve > stamina etc with club style swimming. The guy I saw teaching there recently was new and was only taking little kids. Haven?t heard of Superkids but sounds great.

For the 1 year old, I take it it?s baby and parent splash sessions you?re after. I?m pretty sure Camberwell leisure centre, Peckham Pulse, the Elephant and Castle centre, ED leisure centre and Brixton Rec will all have these and it?s more about finding a time that suits you. AFAIK, they aren?t expensive and are all PAYG. But see below on water quality. The 3 year old can find ?lessons? at Beckenham Spa and Brixton Rec, and also the leisure centre at Elephant and Castle. Probably at the other places too but the advantage of these three is that they have dedicated toddler pools (Peckham Pulse May have too) which are very warm and very shallow and ideally suited to letting the little ones get really comfortable being in water, being splashed and maybe even doing a rudimentary doggy paddle. The 5 year old is ready for lessons lessons. By 5 they mostly (but not all) have a reasonable control over their arms and legs and can actually understand what the teacher is telling them. Swimming actually involves some very complex and sometimes counter intuitive coordination. Leisure centre lessons are fine. But check how many kids there are in the class. There should never be more than 12 and ideally you?d want fewer. Watch some of the lessons. Note progress and move if you are not seeing any. It will all boil down to the specific teacher you get. I personally find the water at Camberwell very heavily chlorinated. The Elephant and ED less so. JAGS bearly at all as they use UV light. The teaching overall at JAGS is good. Again, it?s down to the specific teacher, not the venue. The classes there do book out quickly, but I think they do everywhere. I?d probably take a view on class timings as much as anything else. One last thing to consider - Tigersharks has superb teaching and you can swim with the kids yourself too - though you don?t have to. They are a non competitive club. Look at the website and email them to see if they have space. If you want a competitive club, local ones are Dulwich Dolphins (Dulwich) Leander A(Clapham) and Saxon Crowm (Lewisham). They all have development squads. Ironically I think progress in these can appear to be slower than in leisure centres and at JAGS, but they are not in the business of trying to trot the kids through a curriculum and perhaps focus a bit more on getting it ?right? than getting it ?good enough to tick the box?. Maybe. Tigersharks May be the perfect mix as it has no levels to jump through and I?ve seen the teaching myself and it?s superb. Hope that helps.

If you have the option, choose a night flight. It'll be a nice calm, quiet, dark cabin, with few interruptions from the crew / few loud announcements etc. Give them a bottle / tippee mug to sip on take off and landing. It'll naturally help them equalise the pressure in their ears (which is otherewise a source of great discomfort, much upset and a lot of crying). Entertainment in-flight for 11 month olds is provided in the form of being able to post the flight safety card in different seat pockets, taking it out and reposting it. Hours of fun. Hours.

Beckenham Spa certainly used to take that age. All swimming classes round here fill up very quickly so I?d get on it ASAP. I think JAGS will have something too, and if not you could certainly organise 1 to 1s there until a class place opens up. Brixton also a good shout I think in that like Beckenham it has a specialised dedicated teaching pool with very very warm shallow water - which can make all the difference to confidence and willingness to go etc.