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No, I'm across the news and the implications and I still whole-heartedly wish the amateur landlords polishing their pensions and turning houses into investments not homes a cool bitter financial wind. Or certainly proper rent controls and improved tenant rights. I;ve friends who are landlords in Berlin. The rent they charge is capped and they can't evict unless they can show they are moving in themselves. They feel this is absolutely fair.

Our landlord has done the same, though with no mention or excuse of taxation, they simply referred to the market and the fact that they have heard they should be getting a lot more money. It's beyond our means. We're leaving and fortunately have family close by enough for our children to keep going to the same schools - otherwise there is nowhere we'd be able to go within miles and miles. To compound the utter bastardy of his position he's given us notice to leave in January despite initially agreeing to let us stay until Feb / March when the building work in the house we're going to share with family will be ready. So, a greedy, mean bastard but also, it seems, a stupid one. He has failed to protect our deposit so his section21 notice is unenforceable. For him it's all about the money so we'll apply for the up to 3x deposit compensation that's available to us under the law. As a tenant I'm thrilled that the rentier class are being deprived of their lazy income stream.

Allocating a "correct" place to wait for the 12 and the 40, which both stop and start at this end of the lane, is probably a very good idea. but I thought there was an allocated area towards Friern Road on Lordship Lane. Without an allocated area buses park up in, often extremely dangerous places, for example, at the junction of Plough Lane and Lordship Lane, in the bus lane and on the double yellow lines. This happens fairly frequently.

I interviewed the daughter of the artist (Stan Peskett) for a radio 4 arts doc last week, in fact. The blue lower section is, she thought, down to the council overpainting the graffiti.

Yes, I got my French eatery names mixed up Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think Spinach is replacing Le Chandelier - which > I assume can now be mentioned on the forum!

it will be a vegetable focused restaurant called Spinach edited to say - that's wrong of course. spinach is further down the lane ...

Have you tried the Citymapper app or website? It's very good at answering these kinds of questions...

You could get the train to St Pancras and walk ....

TBH I think it is hard to be strategic and game the system. The admissions criteria can feel baffline - lotteries, fair banding, proximity etc etc. I've got 2 who've recently gone through this and I would definitely agree with the advice offered. Go and see several schools. It's quite likely you'll be very pleasantly reassured - local secondary schools are really good. Try and compile a list of ones you like and your daughter likes. There'll be different reasons for each - some very close that you can get to easily and quickly, some with fabulous music provision (like Kingsdale), some single sex / mixed. It's worth visiting some of the less popular ones too, I think. Reading the forum, you often hear enthusiastic reports from parents visiting the less "popular" schools. Go for any of the tests and scholarship days (the Kingsdale sports one is very good fun and if you get the music one at any level it just gives your child access to the provision once they're there.) List them in genuine order of preference knowing that you will remain on the waiting lists for the ones higher up the list to any choice you get lower down. Good luck!

"abdominal pain" (?!) I do agree that it is best to use correct anatomical language but "vulva" on its own isn't always accurate (though it's good enough usually). Vagina only deals with part of the situation too. It's handy to have a catch all general area reference, I think, (like "tummy" and, I suppose "bum" rather than "anus" or "buttocks") and also to talk through and name the parts pretty matter of factly as well. Especially important for girls I think as there's less on the outside than for boys. Jules-and-Boo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > devsdev, there's nothing wrong with that.... but > what would you have a child call a tummy ache? > > Maybe you would enjoy The Vagina Monologues? > They're really funny. > > http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244283/

"Jenny" short for "Genitalia"

... and what about that VERY strange shop (Target Arms?) for all your, let's call it "war" memorabilia needs - I see they're still operating online where the crossbows seem very reasonably priced and the "german Party badges" are a snip at 8 of your SS pounds...

If anyone has any quinces I'd be very interested in acquiring some ... I make lovely membrillo ...

Yes, fordybee, def worth emphasising to children that the green man means it's your turn but that you still have to look and not absolutely expect it's safe to cross. We live near a very complicated crossing, with lots of delayed turning across lanes and you can't always trust cars and other vehicles not to just plough on through. Also, really worth the reminder that vehicles can behave unpredictably - not least emergency vehicles. Hope you're not too traumatised and will continue to cycle! Also - next week will see the return of the lollipop ladies who, although they don't control that particular crossing, do at least, add a bit more "vulnerable road users here" visibility.

Well - if they were approaching from Dulwich village they would have driven past several signs indicating a school and in any case the pedestrians have right of way: Highway Code Road junctions (170 to 183) 170 Take extra care at junctions. You should watch out for cyclists, motorcyclists, powered wheelchairs/mobility scooters and pedestrians as they are not always easy to see. Be aware that they may not have seen or heard you if you are approaching from behind watch out for pedestrians crossing a road into which you are turning. If they have started to cross they have priority, so give way P.O.U.S.theWonderCat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why would they particularly know there is a school > there? I certainly didn't when I first came to > visit friends from outside of Dulwich. > > I'm sorry your daughter got a fright, but I was > taught at kindergarten that you had to check left, > right, left again and wait before you crossed even > at lights.

Popped in to the post office today and was dismayed to see the notice saying that it is going to close after the end of August.

you could hire out the adventure playground at Dog Kennel Hill - has a hall for tea and games and room to roar round...we've done a kind of treasure hunt there too... Home parties are lovely, if you have room, and the trad party games very popular as well as games that just involve being a bit silly - "dance in the manner of ... a chicken/ a dinosaur / your mum etc etc". DIY face paints a good one - honestly very easy just to put flowers / moustaches / stripes etc on faces and much cheaper than a professional... treasure hunts - clue based or ones with games or tasks are pretty easy to set up and are fun too keeping balloons in the air ... my absolute top recommended game is messy but fun - kids in teams of 4 or 5, each child with a loo roll. The object is to wrap up like a mummy one of their team mates - they can be congratualted on best wrapped, first finished etc. Then the "mummies" have to burst out of the loo roll and then there is a mad loo roll fight. It's ridiculous, wasteful and very messy but always a success...

Cedges Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm delighted that some cyclists around here are > apparently significantly less sweaty than me but > as I can't cycle from Peckham to ED without being > a wringing mess, I don't think I'd want to sit at > my desk all day - unfortunately some of us are not > lucky enough to have shower facilities. I agree arriving sweaty is grim but if you take it very easy and just pootle it's usually ok, I find, and a much more pleasant way to travel than either packed public transport or speedy breakneck cycling

I know that this isn't an adequate solution to the overarching problem but, if you are trying to get to London Bridge, the cycle is really not bad at all. Even if you take it at a slow pootling pace and avoid all main roads you can get there in 30 mins. From Goose Green I'd do Adys, Nutbrook, Maxted, Bellenden Road onto Lyndhurt Way, cross over at the lights to Kelly Avenue, very short stretch of Commercial Way (you can walk this if it feels too scary, though in my experience it isn't at all awful or busy, Chandler Way then into Burgess Park, follow paths to cross park diagonally to come out at Wells Way / Albany Road, short stretch on Albany Road, (again, if nervous easy to walk this), then up Portland Street to Content Street, Rodney Road, Rodney Place then onto pavement cycle path on New Kent Road, cross at crossing onto Meadow Row - from here I wiggle up through BAth Terrace and Trinity Square (but that's because I like the King Alfred statue) but you could join the Southwark Bridge road cycle route and come up towards London Brisge on Union Street .... It's a nice cycle route - lots to see and not at all trafficy / lycra commuting speed freaks... There's also the option of joining the entirely off road "quiet route" to Burgess Park at Peckham Library

Generally its the WIMPS (Wankers I Must Punch) who talk about MILFS

No! awful... dirac - it's a reference to the vision of angels "bespangling" a tree Blake said he saw as a child when walking on Peckham Rye. He was 9 and it was the first time he had a vision, or so the story goes ...

Alba?

we had one for a while when we didn't have a car and used it for shopping, local trips too far for small legs to walk etc. I really liked it. It's quite slow and heavy but felt very stable and the gears helped up the hills. You can fit lots in the box and there's good storage under the seat if you get one with the bench fitted. Also has good resale value

I agree Blah Blah, what is interesting too is the perception of risk to health. The NO2 and particulate levels led to early death in 9000 people in the capital and the very young (and older people) are affected most. Aside from the impact of early death ongoing health problems: respiratory and cardio-vascular are directly attributable to NO2 and particulate levels. It's a big health hazard, especially for children and the elderly and yet the perceived sense of risk appears to be broadly acceptable unlike, say, the totally disproportionate sense of risk and reaction demonstrated around the recent agitation about extremely rare strains of meningitis and the consequent outraged demands for action and mass vaccination. I assume it's because the meningitis risk is more tangible and perceived to have an "easy" solution whereas the pollution whilst more deadly is perceived as less easy to "fix".