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Pickle

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  1. Just wanted to thank everybody that took time to reply. We were in Docklands today, and I went to Boots at Canary Wharf - they have makeup counters and were really quiet. I bought a Clarins 3 dot eyeliner, and had a long consultation with Bare Minerals. Really helpful girl, put me at ease. On her suggestion I bought a small "warm" colours kit (eye colour, lip colour, blusher etc) and she gave me a big bag of samples to take away and try. Also got a Max Factor mascara, on her recommendation. I've had a play and now look like I'm ready for a night out (I think I've done ok!), but true to form life with kids means I am sitting watching SpongeBob!
  2. I remember it being mentioned before, but personally I wouldn't worry. TB is spread through prolonged close contact with someone who has the disease. From the NHS website: Although it is spread in a similar way to a cold or the flu, TB is not as contagious. You would usually have to spend prolonged periods in close contact with an infected person to catch the infection yourself. For example, TB infections usually spread between family members who live in the same house. It would be highly unlikely to become infected by sitting next to an infected person on a bus or train. So unless your daughter is living with someone who has it, or perhaps using a nursery for her baby (unlikely at 2 weeks old), the baby will be fine.
  3. Seabag, ditto. Decided against a nice 2 bed flat on Bellenden Rd 14 years ago, kicking ourselves now!
  4. I used to frequently use the 12 bus, but now avoid it as much as possible since the new buses came in - one of my kids ended up travel sick when sitting upstairs due to the heat (she's never been sick before on buses/cars etc), and I find it really overwhelming and almost claustrophobic in the routemaster. It's ok for a short trip to Peckham, but horrible if you have to go any further.
  5. Personally I'd say just roll with it. At 3 my now 8.5 year old was obsessed with toy cars, nothing else, he would sit for ages turning the wheels, driving them along a stripe on our rug to the point that he wore a hole in it! As he got older his interests gradually broadened. He still loves his cars, but equally Lego, role play, all things history related etc. Chances are if you try to move his focus you'll just make him more determined to play with his cars :) (My 3 year old girl is currently obsessed with pulling all her clothes out of the drawers, and rolling them up like sausages. Keeps her entertained for hours!)
  6. We only had very basic baby monitors for our children, and purely because from our front room when the TV is on you can't hear noise from the upstairs rear of the house, where our nursery was. If you're in a flat or smaller house I don't think they are necessary, unless you really feel you need reassurance.
  7. I had mine fitted at Dulwich Medical Centre, Crystal Palace Rd. Can't fault the professionalism and experience of the lovely female doctor they have there, she is excellent. I think they run a coil clinic on Monday mornings, you need to book a few weeks in advance.
  8. I had a mirena coil fitted earlier this year, and wish I had done it years ago! Mild crampy pains for about 12 hours, and it was slightly more uncomfortable than a smear test during the actual fittings, but that's it. Since then I've had no periods and no PMT. Life changing!
  9. Do you have a freezer DulwichFox? Freeze what you don't use - I hardly ever throw away unused "whole" foods, our food waste is limited to plate scrapings, peelings, bones etc. Fruit that's about to go off gets put in containers and frozen to use in smoothies, veg chopped and used in stir fries/soups.
  10. Why not just chat to someone, ring or not? It may turn out they're not single, but they might have single friends, and if you've come across as a nice normal person you have more chance of being introduced to them :)
  11. Pickle

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    Hawley, that's a brilliant story :)
  12. Magic Moments - it's a drop off cr?che, operates 4 mornings a week from 9:45 till 12:15. Offers exactly what you're looking for, just ?10 a session. It's in the Lordship Lane estate, near the old Harvester/Grove Tavern.
  13. :) Mind you, if I'm honest that's probably what I need!
  14. A frittata gets cooked partly on the hob, partly under the grill. Usually has potato, as well as any of the standard omelette ingredients. More substantial than an omelette I think, the sort of thing you can pick up and eat with your hands.
  15. Thanks ladies, much appreciated. It's difficult to get to Oxford Street, as from September I'm constrained to school nursery hours (9-12), which hardly leave time to go to Sainsburys, let alone the west end! I wonder whether Debenhams at Bromley would be any good? Maybe I'll attempt a lone shopping trip one weekend :)
  16. Girly post alert, it's not really my thing, I'll be honest. Anyhoo... About 6 months ago I opened up my makeup bag, and tossed the contents in the bin. Other than moisturiser, and occasionally foundation, I don't wear makeup, and the bits I had were all far too old to be safe to put anywhere near a face! Now I have a few smart occasions coming up and feel like I need to make more of an effort, so I need to buy myself some makeup. I have a nice liquid foundation (Clinique) I've used for ages and suits my skin. What are the other basics I should buy (and do you have recommendations?). - Mascara - Eyeliner (scares me a bit, haven't really worn since the late 80s when a thick line of bright blue complemented my school uniform beautifully) - concealer/brightener? No idea. - eye shadow? Another thing I'm a bit scared of! I never know what colours I should buy (I have blue eyes, and short, blonde highlighted hair if that helps?) - powder? Lipstick doesn't work for me, I'm a flautist and have a tough time with my lips as they take a bit of a hammering and are always dry. Should I go somewhere like Dr Boo? Would they treat me like a 40 year old imbecile (or see ?? signs and sell me stuff I don't need), or are they gentle with novices? Help me family room!
  17. That's sad, granted, but once and for all proves that you have no experience of raising children. So really, it's you that should "STFU" as you so eloquently put it.
  18. You didn't answer as to whether you had children of your own. I would love to hear, if you did, how you entertained them day in day out. How do you know that the parents you see having lunch with their kids in a pub haven't spent the rest of their week out and about doing activities you deem "suitable". Do you talk or engage with them at all? Find out about their lives, how they juggle work and kids? I don't know why I'm bothering even wasting my time on this, I know better, but "for fox sake" take a look at your posts and realise just how ridiculous they are!
  19. What a load of absolute tripe DulwichFox! Shock horror, I took my kids to the pub for lunch one day last week. All three, yes THREE (I know, contributing to the horror that is life in modern day SE22) chose to eat pasta and salad. On the same day I also took them to the park in the morning (where we ate homemade biscuits for our morning snack), and to a museum in the afternoon. Then we came home and they ate a home cooked evening meal. During the holidays we have been on day trips to the beach, to the many parks locally and in Central London, to a zoo, the cinema, the list goes on... but obviously by treating them to a meal out, that wipes out all the other stuff. I hang my head in shame, I have failed as a parent. Did you ever have children of your own? Enough with the ridiculous generalisations and stereotypes, you do yourself no favours.
  20. I would spend some time, outside of normal sleeping times, making the bed a fun place to be. Spend a morning turning it into a den, have lunch in his room and pretend you are camping, teddy bears picnic on the bed etc. Any time you read your child a book, go into the bedroom and sit on his bed. Next time you change the sheets, get him involved, have fun with it (takes me half an hour to change my 3 year olds sheets, as she thinks it's hilarious to lie on the matress and get covered by the base sheet). Good luck.
  21. I've got loads of bits I'm happy to donate, please let me know once you have a plan!
  22. Black school shoes - the school is (thankfully) clamping down on kids wearing trainers and football type boots. I buy my son Clark's trainer style school shoes (all black) rather than the more formal ones that are available, as he finds them most comfortable.
  23. Last Easter I put my kids eggs up in a high cupboard to limit their scoffing. They forgot about them after a day or so. I ate them :)
  24. My 3.5 year old went to see Inside Out, and seemed to really enjoy it - mind you, she's a 3rd child and well versed in the discipline of sitting and watching movies ;) My parents took her, with her siblings, and said apart from one section which she found a bit scary, she was fine.
  25. Is it just those two small sections being paved, not the whole garden? If so, I think it looks fine (would look a bit strange to have it lined up, as the pavers at the back of your garden would have to be laid on a funny angle to the back wall).
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