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There's a place on Kent House Road (penge) that does cushions/ filler/ upholstery.

Hi, can anyone recommend a good place to get some kids' temporary tattoos from. I find yellow moon/ baker ross a bit pricey esp by the time you've added on p&p, but when I tried another random place from an internet search, they weren't very good quality. Anyone have any recommendations? Or do I really just need to bite the bullet and place my baker ross order? :o) Thanks

Thanks Molly, K

Hi - have seen a few P&T threads, so hoping some other P&T owners might be able to help. I bought my P&T Explorer in December 2004, and still using, but it could do with a ... valeting service. It's just getting a bit stiff and rusty, and beyond what I can fix with a can of WD40. Does anyone have any suggestions? It's been a great work horse and has plenty years yet, just feel it could do with the pram equivalent of a spa day! Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Hi EDF users - I wondered if anyone out there might be able to help? DS is in Year 3, and on their school trip about WWII (topic this term), we've been asked to send them off on their 1970s coach dressed as 1939 evacuees, brown luggage name tags, gas mask box etc. DS's state school is the usual grey trousers and sweatshirt, and any socks at all. So apart from school shorts, I don't have much useful stock. I was wondering if anyone had any boys' long school socks their DS had grown out off (he's size1) they might be willing to sell/ dispose of my way? And anyone have a battered school cap, now their son has left for secondary school? Have looked on ebay, but all 1960s 'vintage' for about ?25... Thanks for any help/ suggestions

Apologies if this is not the right place...just wondering what fellow ED residents do about bike storage when you don't have a garage? Any advice/ experience welcomed. After a spate of birthdays, we now have 5 bikes cluttering up the living room, and this is not a long term solution that works for me (husband however can't see the problem!). We have a teeny back garden already cluttered with playhouse, garden furniture, sand table...if we put a bike shed in the back, there'll be little garden left. We have space in our front yard for a bike store/ shed of some description, but when I mentioned this to a neighbour who is also Neighbourhood Watch, she said "a shed in your front garden is an open invitation to be kicked in". Is she right? Would it be naive to have a shed in the front garden? It would be behind a wall,running alongside the pavement, so you'd have to walk up our drive to notice it. But then again, once up our drive, you could break into it with a sledge hammer and no one could see you from the street. Any tips?

You're invited to Eliot Bank Primary School's very first 'Yard Sale'. Come along and buy nearly new and second hand items: clothes, toys, books and more. The sale will be in the school hall & playground. Also available: ice creams, cream teas, temporary tattoos and kid's crafts Where: Eliot Bank Primary School, Thorpewood Avenue When: Saturday 14 May 2-4 pm ?1 entrance (proceeds to school funds) For more information, please email [email protected], and we look forward to seeing you there!

You're invited to Eliot Bank Primary School's very first 'Yard Sale'. Come along and buy nearly new and second hand items: clothes, toys, books and more. The sale will be in the school hall & playground. Also available: ice creams, cream teas, temporary tattoos and kid's crafts Where: Eliot Bank Primary School, Thorpewood Avenue When: Saturday 14 May 2-4 pm ?1 entrance (proceeds to school funds) For more information, please email [email protected], and we look forward to seeing you there!

Yes, thanks so much Citizen Ed, am glad to have somewhere to vent! Am quite chippy about feeling poorly served by Southwark, as I am right in the tip of Southwark - my kids closest schools were mainly Lewisham primaries (one of which they now attend), and out local doctor's surgery is in Lambeth! At least my local secondary school is in Southwark....oh yeah, it operates this weird banding lottery system that means some kid in Islington has as much chance as getting in as my kids - 1.09 kilometers as crow flies! Surely state schools should be local state schools... Will save the rest for the questionnaire - thanks again CitizenEd!

Hi - wondered if anyone on the forum might be able to help me? There are lots of activities set up for children to 'have a go' at different sports and see which they like, and I wondered if there was something similar for music/ musical instruments? My eldest is 7 now, and I started piano lessons around this age... but I always wished I learned to play something in an orchestra :o) Sadly, my children don't have access to musical tuition at their school until Year 5, and we don't have a piano, so not sure if the traditional piano lessons make sense! Does anyone have any suggestions? Any tips gratefully received!

Is it just Southwark, or is a Lewisham tale ok too? There used to be 3 Lewisham funded toddler activities at Sydenham Hill Community centre, just on Sydenham Hill, which is exactly the border between Southwark and Lewisham. Monday's song/ rhyme time, Wednesday was a baby/ toddler mini-gym, and Friday was a toy library drop-in - all cut, at very short notice: think we were notified at the beginning of March, and they stopped at the end of the month. It's a real shame, as they were very well-attended, and now there is nothing in this corner of Southwark/ Lewisham. The rhyme times at Forest Hill Library/ Dulwich Library are already a bit like the New Years sales...the reduction of these services means that busy over-crowded events become even more so...

When my DD was 3, in the queue at Sainsburys, kept saying 'what IS it mummy, what IS it?' as I was busily putting items on the conveyor belt. I (evil mother half-listening) sort of sing-songed 'oh, bananas, bread" etc etc. "No, NO, Mummy, it is a boy or a girl, is it a boy or a girl?" pointing at the rather unfortunately-visaged check-out... person. I was mortified.... tried stuffing snacks into her but she would not be fobbed off...

Hi there My 6 yr old son is obsessed by this place as we drive past it quite often. We have one day left before we go back to school and this is what he wants to do! I have looked on the southwark.gov site, but no information about opening times/ days open. Does anyone on this fabulous forum (shameless buttering up) have any information on this? Many thanks!

Hi all, My Peugeot has developed a fault and I urgently need it for an important trip on Thursday. Does anyone know a friendly mechanic or garage who would be able to assist? Any numbers or names greatly appreciated. Thanks Kirstie Clark

I hope this doesn't result in getting flamed - but saw on another site that the government has axed the central budget for training teaching assistants, and one of the gvm's favourite think tanks, Reform, is proposing that ALL teaching assistant jobs are phased out to save money. If you think this is a bad idea, please sign up at the campaign weneedtas.blogspot.com/

b&BRed, LOVING you, thank you!

That's pretty much it really... Need to bake lots and lots, so would like to freeze them and then ice them on the day. Will that work do you think, or will I have dozens of soggy mini fairy cakes? :o) Any advice/ suggestions gratefully received.

Thanks to everyone for the info - appreciate it.

Hi - I'm an SE26 lurker on this forum, and hope some other se26 lurkers might be able to help. :o) My daughter is soooo keen to join Rainbows, like some bigger girls she knows, but I am finding it hard to find a local group - I'm on Sydenham Hill, so Forest Hill/ Sydenham groups might be closer for me than ED and West Dulwich groups. Does anyone out there know of an se23/ se26/ se21 group? I've tried the girl guide website, but not as helpful as I found the Scouting one for my son. Many thanks for any tips.

thanks for that! May try a trip there tomorrow if weather lasts :o)

Hi - I wonder if anyone has some tips for where to park at the brockwell lido. I know I am being pathetic, but as someone who only to drive a couple of years ago, I hate driving to new places, and then break out into cold sweats if it is somewhere slightly busier, such as around Herne Hill station! I understand the parking on site is very limited... Thank you!

My son is 6 and our closest Beavers is St Michael's in Lower Sydenham, but I know of 2 Cubs closer to home - Grove Park (if that is right place on Jews Walk SE26 - Forest Hill end of Sydenham) and the one at St Stephen's next to Sydenham Hill station is supposed to be very good. Hope that helps - my son loves it.

See the visual makeover in the link below. This is what we might get if the Crystal Palace Cinema campaign succeed :o) http://www.se23.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2923

mothergoose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Still not sure how they work out admissions with a > pan london catchment area when it is > oversubscribed. > > Surely it will be extra hard for local kids to get > into their improving neighbourhood school. > > I got so excited about the school, but by the time > my 6 year old is doing secondary applications it > might well be impossible! Exactly my fear! I have 6 year old boy and 4 year old girl, and we're 0.5 miles as crow flies from Kingsdale. As friends start to talk about moving to Kent for grammar schools, Kumon to pass entry exams, etc etc, I have smugly (serves me right!) been saying "we have a lovely state co-ed comp on our doorstep" - but after following various threads on this board, I have a growing sense of dread they wouldn't necessarily get in. The other option are Lewisham single-sex schools - good, but I really would like them to have a co-ed education. Does distance really make no distance at all? Am I going to have to groom my son in basketball/ cello lessons?:o)

:o) You're most welcome and hope w/e proves helpful