Sue

BEES! YAY!!! :)

Thanks :)

Jessie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This is for you, Sue: > http://www.travelzoo.com/uk/local-deals/London/Oth > er/59241?utm_source=localdeal_uk&utm_medium=email& > utm_campaign=1509851_html_nationwide_deal%3a59241 xxxxxx That's really kind, but unfortunately I can't buy them now because of weather issues - don't want to sit on top of a bus in pouring rain! Thank you anyway. ETA: Oh, sorry, just seen they're valid for any day, so massive thanks :) ETA: Oh, you have to book in advance online :( Edited AGAIN to say I've just also seen you can't hop on hop off and it's a three hour trip - I doubt there's a loo on the bus, but I'll check. If not, I can't imagine the girls would last three hours ..... !!!

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Unfortunately, it turned out that we did have a > leak. A tiny leak. And that tiny leak cost us > ?500. > > xxxxxxx OMG is this why Thames Water are constantly sending me stuff about insurance, which I constantly bin (sorry, recycle)? Maybe I'll read it next time :))

To be fair, bookhopper, they'd hardly be cooking lasagne from scratch for each order.

El Horn Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I saw the fox at about 6pm on the road behind > Dulwich Police station but unfortunately it ran > behind a large bin and was out of my reach. Poor > thing. xxxxxx Are you sure that was the same fox? Surely it's unlikely that it could have got that far? There are loads of foxes about! ETA: If there was a dead fox cub near the school, then I'd have thought that was most likely the one in question as it's quite unusual to see dead foxes around. At least it is no longer suffering.

Thanks all, what a lot of excellent suggestions - we will be spoiled for choice! I know open top buses are very expensive, but may be worth while as a one-off to see the sights and save keep changing buses. I'll check out the cost. Will take them on the underground once so they've been, but otherwise intend to avoid it if possible! And also attempt to avoid the rush hour, though I guess it won't be too bad in August. There was a brilliant thing on in Greenwich park last week as part of the festival, sadly it's finished now as I think they would have liked it - sort of music installation. I need to check out fares for children - do they need oyster cards? ETA: I also intend to take them to this: http://www.lovenunhead.co.uk/events/the-village-hall-experience/ http://thejohnfleming.wordpress.com/2013/06/24/after-only-fools-and-horses-comic-martin-soan-the-village-hall-people/ which looks absolutely brilliant!

TB-tested, I trust?! ETA: My daughter has recently been seriously ill, and one of the things suspected was TB as she had been drinking raw milk (it wasn't, in the end).

Pickle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm happy to lend you a 5 and 6.5 year old for a > week :) xxxxxxx I think I'll have my hands full with "my" two, but thanks for the offer :)) I'm stocking up with fish fingers and baked beans as I type :)) ETA: Thanks, Crystal7 :) ETA: Sorry, Pickle, just realised you meant you'd lend them for the second week!

Thanks both, great ideas! Maybe I should negotiate for a fortnight :)

My granddaughters are staying with me for a week in August, and are very excited to be coming to London (they have only been before for family gatherings). I asked them what they wanted to do and all they came up with was that they'd like to see the parks in London :)) I don't think they have much idea what's here (the little one asked whether it was in England :)) She also does not believe that London Bridge actually exists outside of the nursery rhyme.) I have eliminated the zoo for this year on the grounds that probably the 4 year old will not have the stamina for it, so I don't particularly want to shell out shedloads of money and then not see it all ..... My ideas so far are: The Horniman River trip Open top bus to see the sights (without actually going in them ....) London Bridge (see above) plus Tower Bridge opening Art galleries - kids' activities Science museum - interactive stuff Brixton Market - to see the exotic fruit and veg Oddono's (!) Local adventure playgrounds (thought of a climbing wall as they both love climbing and jumping from mind-boggling heights, but they don't take them that young unless you are a member). Duck and/or pigeon feeding (yes I know, I know) Any other ideas? They're both bright kids, and I don't have a lot of money.

tomskip Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How would you propose catching the fox? I'm afraid > it didn't occur to me that this might be something > I could manage. I felt I had done my bit by > alerting the park manager (who said she already > knew) and trying to find someone who would come > out to it. xxxxxx You did much more than most people would have done, tomskip. Easy for people to say what they "would" have done.

Class A3 restaurant according to the planning application. Anybody know what/who it will be?

Thanks James. For eBooks you don't need to regularly visit the area, as you borrow them online! I've (re) joined the City of London libraries online now, and am going up to the Barbican today to collect my card and pin number, so I don't actually need Dulwich to lend eBooks now :)

Info is on another thread - you can do a search.

Ah, that explains it. Except you appear to have posted under a different name? :))

Ah. Maybe it was a PM which I deleted after I'd replied to it (and then deleted my reply). Anyway, my problem is solved. Picking up my library card and Pin number from the Barbican next week :) Now to work my way through the shelves full of charity shop books I still have to read :)

bawdy-nan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > I can't imagine they'd have sold or advertised it > in the way they did if they'd known it was > "theft". Probably would have been helpful for > someone to have talked to them about it. XXXXXX It's not too late? I'm appalled by the contents of that article. How extremely selfish can people be? Even if it wasn't a nature reserve, don't they think twice before wrecking an area of wild plants?

That's a great picture! :))

This is very weird, because somebody had posted on here about City of London eBooksand how anybody resident in the UK can sign up to join the libraries and get eBooks. But their post and my response to it seems to have disappeared. I'm not going mad(der) am I? Because on the basis of that post I completed this evening an on-line membership form for City of London libraries :))

Thanks for that. I used to belong to the Barbican library as I worked near there many moons ago, but I think I have binned my card. I think at the time I did need proof that I worked in the area though - maybe things have changed!

Thanks, I had already downloaded loads of free books from Gutenberg :) However there is a limit to how many Dickens and suchlike I can read ....... Also - apart from the "classics" - large amounts of the thousands of eBooks available on Gutenberg (and I'd assume on other similar sites) are absolute crap. Great if you want a zillion titles about vampires etc. And yes, libraries do "lend" ebooks. Oxford library does for one :) http://oxfordshire.lib.overdrive.com/8A5209D1-E473-4430-8846-5D9A933B712A/10/50/en/Default.htm http://oxfordshire.lib.overdrive.com/8A5209D1-E473-4430-8846-5D9A933B712A/10/50/en/NextGen.htm Apparently Kindle/Amazon won't allow libraries to use its software for the purposes of lending, or something, so hard luck if you have a Kindle - luckily I bought a Nook because it was on offer at ?30, purely intending to download free classics I'd never got round to reading. Wouldn't have bought an eReader otherwise :)

steveo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > a local place for local people. > xxxxxxxx Be very afraid :))

Hi James Please could you find out why Southwark libraries don't lend eBooks. The librarian I just spoke to at Dulwich Library didn't know, and the person I spoke to in the libraries section at the council didn't even know what an eBook was!!!! Other councils have an eBook lending scheme, both in London and elsewhere. Thanks!

OK just finally spoken to somebody at Dulwich Library. Southwark Council doesn't lend eBooks. They didn't know why but think it's because of the "fractured market" eg Kindles and Nooks use different formats. I presume that must have some financial implication for them, as surely each eBook is available in many different formats. And if that's the case how come other councils manage to do it?