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Hi Chris, Is that right? I thought that clubs needed to register a minimum number of players by 1 Sept, but could register new players as opposed to transfers thereafter provided the max squad numbers weren't exceeded?

There is a local girls' only team, the Dulwich Village Vixens. I believe they are looking for u11 to u13 players at the moment, see http://www.gumtree.com/p/community/dulwich-village-vixens-fc/1070249168. On the league point, wouldn't it be possible to enter a girls' only team into the SELKent league ie it wouldn't need to play in a girls' only league?

Hi all, In case you're interested, there are still a few spaces left in the holiday cricket sessions run by Dulwich CC at the Dulwich Sports Ground in Turney Road. The courses run from 10am until 3:30pm daily, from now until the third week of August, and are for children aged 7-11. They are open to both members and non-members of the club and can be booked on a daily or weekly basis. This year the club is also offering a few morning-only sessions for children who have just completed Year 1. I attach details, including the booking form. Feel free to PM me if you have any questions.

Simpson Travel - periyali or mousses (I liked Mousses better, the food was better). Google it..

In case you're unaware, an AstroTurf wicket and new nets were installed at Brockwell Park last year. Might be worth touching base with friends of brockwell park / Lambeth who presumably dealt with similar health and safety issues?

We employed a nanny with her own child when my son was in reception. Her daughter was a couple of years younger, I did the school drop off and she did pick up/ worked until about 6:30 or 7pm. Probably the pay wasn't great for her during term time (because of limited hours), but we paid more in school holiday time, and she got lots of one on one time with her daughter during the day in term time, so worked well. I suspect it might not work so well on a fill time basis as parents might be suspicious that you would tend to prioritise your own child?

Just to add another point for parents to consider - at least some organised extra curricular sports set their age groups on the basis of age at 1 Sept rather than school year. If your child defers a year, and ends up playing club or representative football or cricket, for example, they would not be able to play in teams with children in their school year group, but instead would have to play "up a year". Something to think about if you think your child is going to be a sporty one.....

:) What group are they in? We will be wandering down there at various points in the next few days...

Where did I come from? I had this as a child, and got a copy for my son. Very matter of fact. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Where-Did-I-Come-From/dp/0230015492

Or, skip the stopover and do what jon says, transiting KL. you can sometimes get business class flights on Korean Air for much the same price as economy on Air NZ or Singapore Air.

Don't fly back via hawaii or the US. The jet lag will be horrific. You can go to a beach in NZ. I'd reduce the stopover time to four days and do Singapore, staying in Sentosa if poss.

Just to add, another reason for keeping your child in the year that they technically ought to be in, rather than deferring, if you could, is that if they play competitive sport (football, cricket) outside school when they get older, their year group will be based on their date of birth rather than their school year. So they'd be in a different group from their school friends/ have to compete with children from the year above.

Danny at JAGS is great. I'd also recommend football magic coaching, for ages 3-8, sat morning in Burbage Road http://www.footballmagiccoaching.co.uk/saturday_morning_football.html

I've been surprised how many people have posted recently saying that Langbourne is an impossible distance to travel. My son is at the prep, practically right next to Langbourne, and I know plenty of people who bike there from SE22, admittedly mostly from the forest hill "end" of Se22' but including someone who bikes from Bellenden Road. It's not as bad as you might think, because on a bike you can turn left up Bowen Road off Huntslip Road, rather than going right around(that end of Bowen Road is blocked to cars). Alternatively if you took the P13 to Dulwich College, it's about ten mins walk from the bus stop. I also know people who do that. I don't know much about Langbourne - although the children always seem very polite when I see them on the way to the train station - but I don't think it should be ruled out on distance alone.

Already in their system = precensored I guess. Maybe I'll give them a call. (Or post in classifieds to see if anyone wants some free books. :). )

Does anyone know if the library takes book donations? I have about 10 recently published modern fiction books that I've read and are in good nick.

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Forgot to say - girls are more than welcome!

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I was brought up on the story of Simpson and his donkey - albeit for Anzac Day in April http://www.walkerbooks.com.au/Books/Simpson-and-His-Donkey-9781921529542 for a recent version

gap are good but fairly pricy - at that age I went for vertbaudet.co.uk. For the record, Land's End do great jeans for still-skinny-at-7's!

It sounds as though you might have tried Dulwich CC and decided you didn't like it? Failing that, the one across from the Harvester is Streatham and Marlborough and the coach is a lovely guy called Mark. I think I have his contact details somewhere. They have training at the club from 5.30 to 7.30 on Thursday evenings - not incredibly convenient, but manageable depending on sibling commitments!

Dulwich Magic are just about finished for the season. My son has been training with them for the last part of this season, and is planning to join the team next season. This season they trained at the Dulwich Prep nursery field in Gallery Road up until Easter, and are now at the SELO field off Burbage Road (Gallery Road end), training is from 9.45 until about 11.15 with games at various times on Sunday. If you PM me I can send you the coach's email address.

I agree - very happy with Elm Lodge (they were great in giving us a fast track referral to A&E when DS had suspected irritable hip (which with the benefit of google hindsight could have been all kinds of awful things...)