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Fox cubs spotted in the garden this morning.

Looks great! Thank you for letting us know.

Thank you very much for these suggestions! Shoot postponed! So I'll go for wander around these locations.

Can anyone recommend any interesting streets to take a picture of an up and coming band (they look at bit like a Blur - shows my age) in North London tomorrow morning? I used to live up that way, but I'm sure it's all gentrified beyond recognition.

There used to be interesting streets near the Chalk Farm Studios (which have gone). The alternative is to take shots from the top of Parliament Hill with the London skyline behind them. I think Camden Town is going to be too full of tourists tomorrow. Ditto the canal path.

I'd be grateful for any suggestions of outdoor spots....generally in that North London part of the world.

Thank you

Anecdotally the furthest I've heard it stretching to is Dovercourt Road this year so far.

Also given Harris Boys East Dulwich as our 6th choice. Where we live we would also have got into Charter every year before.

Good to hear all the positive feedback about Harris Boys. Hope more parents will post as the day goes on.

Hello - yes I started a thread a couple of months back about Melbourne Grove. The local community warden got in touch and caught and fined the dog owner I think was responsible for a lot of the problem. My end of the street has been largely free ever since but I think the owner has simply varied his route as I spotted a notice in the window of a house further along Melbourne Grove about dog fouling.

I was peering at the notice when the householder came out and spoke to me and the dog owner they thought was responsible sounded very like 'my' dog owner and the sudden increase in fouling coincided with the chap getting fined near my house. I think it's very hard to change entrenched behaviour even when someone is fined.

This is so last minute part of me thinks there's no point in putting this up

Anyone - one adult ticket and up to 6 kids tickets going spare. Free.

If you'd like the tickets and can get to the Greenwich Theatre for 1pm show then ring me on my mobile 0776 970 1268 and I can leave the tickets at the reception in your name. Jack and the Beanstalk.

An ice-rink! That's amazing. School fairs have moved on a bit since my school days. Sounds great.

Just to let everyone know that Heber Primary School art is running on the giant screen at Waterloo Station this weekend from 10am to 4pm. (I saw it up today and the children's work looks amazing.)

To see a picture or video of it please look at the beframeus facebook page.

Just to let people know to keep an eye out for Heber Primary School's beautiful season's greetings artwork that is running across rail and shopping mall screens.

It's running at all the major train stations - plus some local stations including Herne Hill. Also at shopping centres including:Brent Cross Shopping Centre (Hendon), Glades (Bromley), Centrale Shopping Centre (Croydon), Whitgift Centre (Croydon), intu Lakeside and Bluewater.

Most of it will be on portrait screens but it will also have a special screening on the giant 40-metre screen at Waterloo Station on Friday 28, Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 November, running between 10am and 4pm.

To see the artwork look at Heber Primary School's website (in the blog section) or look at https://www.facebook.com/beframeus

I posted a little while ago as I was really fed up at the amount of dog fouling in Melbourne Grove. It was happening on a daily basis - and although the council were very good about coming and clearing it up - it was a massive waste of their time and it wasn't sorting out the problem.

After my post on the forum, I was contacted by a member of the local community warden team who were amazing. They got on the case, visited my road and caught the dog in action and fined the man walking the dog. I guess that was about a month ago. It's been dog-mess free until today - so a massive, massive improvement and I am very grateful.

To make an official report to the community warden team, call 0207 525 5846 and they might be able to help. Otherwise, it's a question of filling in the form on the Southwark Council website and they will clear it up.

As a Heber parent, I've always found the school are very quick to respond and good at communication. You can email direct to the school office and it will be passed onto the relevant teacher - in my experience I've been emailed back the same day.

Similarly, when I've emailed direct to the Head (expecting an email back in a few days or so)I've been surprised and actually a bit taken aback to be phoned within hours by him.

The school tracks the children's levels so it will be easy for them to to tell you the progress your child has made.

In terms of encouraging your child, I am sure you are already doing this but reading to your child and listening to them read to you - every day - is probably one of the most important things you can do to boost your child's levels.

Depending on how old your child is, you might want to get them going on times tables too. Just doing that kind of practice at home really does help your child at school.

In the long run, it is what you do at home (reading, times tables, cultural, sporting activities etc)that will make biggest difference to your child's school career. Whether you complete a worksheet correctly or not isn't going to make a jot of difference.

I am really at my wits end about how to tackle the dog fouling that is happening on a daily basis outside my house in Melbourne Grove. I just wondered if anyone has ever successfully tackled the problem - or is it just part and parcel of city life?

Just now, I've found another steaming pile right by my front path and my husband is clearing it up yet again. I've even had it actually on my path. Without exaggeration, I have it right outside my front gate several times a week. Right outside - by my front gate. On Weds a repair man leaving my house caught an owner with her dog in action fouling right outside my house and said "I hope you aren't leaving that there. I nearly stepped in it." The woman swore at him - and didn't clear it up.

I'm not at home the whole time, so hard to know if it's always the same dog/owner. I'm also puzzled why it's always outside my gate - are dogs really such creatures of habit??

I've called the council numerous times to clear it up. And it's so regular we are now clearing it up too. I've also contacted our MP. I've put up polite notices to politely ask dog owners not to foul the street to no avail.

I feel a little better now I've ranted on the forum. Any advice appreciated.

I see a crowd of girls getting on at Denmark Hill - and they join more girls already on the train - all heading into Victoria.

Someone we know has also had their car keyed when they parked at this end of Melbourne Grove - a BMW. Our car - much less desirable has (fingers crossed) always been fine and we park at this end of the road too.

My son says that a laptop is the same as a computer so no need to bother with the Minecraft PE APP mentioned in his/my first post.

He says, "As you already have a laptop go to minecraft.net and then buy an account costing in the region of ?16/19 which then allows you to download the Minecraft game.

Good specs for a laptop used for Minecraft would be a fairly new graphics card and a computer compatible with Java."

My ten-year old son, an avid Minecrafter advises that you buy an APP called Minecraft PE (pocket edition)which costs ?4.99 and is made by Mojang. He says with this you can play on your ipad, iphone, tablet etc.

Like Medusa, my son advises that in the longer term your son will want to play it on a computer. This is because there is more flexibility via a computer. Apparently "you can't build contraptions with redstone on a tablet/iphone" and "because you can't access the 'mini-games".

(Minigames are spin-off, multiplayer games that all the boys we know spend inordinate amounts of time either playing or more bafflingly watching YouTube videos of other kids playing these games online.)

Until I read this thread I had never noticed the rats by the bridge in Dulwich Park. Now we (10 year old son and I ) stop and count them on the bridge whenever we are passing - 13 is our top score so far.

A few months back I was at the bus stop outside Denmark Hill station and a tall, teenage boy was standing a few people in front of me in the crowd waiting to get onto the bus. Looking to my right, I noticed a middle-aged lady running at full tilt towards us and by dint of much wriggling and gentle elbowing she managed to push through the crowd to reach the boy.

I inadvertantly laughed out loud because the disparity between her joyful expression as she greeted him and the bored, unenthusiastic response she received was astounding (to me as the mum of a 10 year old). I laughed because I saw the future for my son and me being played out in front of me.

The lady heard me laugh and misunderstood - she turned to me and apologised and said, "I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to push in front of you. It's just you see - that's my son!". Pointing to the boy who had already turned his back on her. Before I could put her right - the the bus doors opened and we all piled in.

There's an article in Southwark News reporting that The Irish Shop is to close after 20 years. The owner is quoted as saying "The overheads are now too much on Lordship Lane. Shops open up and they just don't last. Business has been terrible for a few years. The supermarkets started doing the Irish stuff and they can do it more cheaply than we can."

Buses running fine - although 185 too packed to get on.

I am taking a 9-year old boy although we probably won't stay for the whole thing - I reckon one late night during the summer holidays for his age group isn't going to be too much of a problem.

If anyone else is going feel free to pm me as my son is always delighted to meet fellow Minecrafters in 'real' as opposed to 'virtual' life.....!

fyi - this amazing sounding event is on this Friday at the V&A - aimed at fans of Minecraft.

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/f/friday-late/