Huggers

good work ladies!

it;s currently housed in portacabins on the site of the senior school as the original school site burnt down before the new one has been built.

i had my 50th in the studio behind Bar Story in Blenheim grove.I ve also been to a good 50th in the aquarius gold clubhouse.

can you describe it Kamila in case it rings a bell re having been previously seen with owner? Ive seen a lot of new dogs in the park recently, including escaping ones. also if it became lost and someone tied it up because it was near road and they thought it would be more easily reunited?

Fiona Foster brilliant. My daughter has been with her since she was three and now she is still with her at fourteen! Lovely woman, lovely class.

Dunamis, I have two children at Haberdashers and yes it's good, but they have lots of friends at Kingsdale which sounds pretty good too. My son only got into habs as a sibling after the catchment narrowed and I can assure you that otherwise he would have happily have gone to Kingsdale if he had been lucky enough to get in. It sounds like it's an ever improving school not content to rest on its laurels. Both Habs and Prendergast have found new admissions that compel them not to select anymore really challenging as theyve been spoilt for choice in the past. Now they have the same intake as everyone else,( a real mixture of abilities) so if that is what was worrying you don't be. Children with pro active parents will do well whichever school they go to as long as they are happy there and there are teachers who want to teach them at the top of their level. You liked Kingsdale when you visited it, don't be swayed by others. And most importantly don't pass your anxiety and lack of confidence in the school onto your child who is going there. As for results, think about your child- if he/she was going to get all A's at a grammer school she will get all A's there as well. If you don't think the sixth form is good enough cross that bridge when you come to it. Lots of children change schools for A level! Also Habs sending those letters is a little bit of revenge I think on not being put number one anymore. Forget it!

I had mine a few years ago, and am on the other side without HRT. I saw it as the gateway out of my fertility in the same way as puberty had been the gateway in-. I did take some vitamin supplements because I felt knackered, and had the odd sweat but had a pretty smooth ride. I knew I wasnt going to go down a pharmaceutical route but was surprised that my doctor did quite a lot of scaremongering about osteoporosis if I didnt take HRT. There was no history of this in my family - my mother is 92 and has never broken a bone, despite being extremely frail. The tiredness came from the unpredictability of menstruation. (sorry boys, switch off now) In fact, far from periods becoming further and further apart, in the peri-menopause the periods can become very close together and extremely heavy. This went on for about two or three years and it is really annoying because you have to be always prepared. I ate lots of oestrogen rich things like yams, soya milk and sweet potatoes - I dont know if they smoothed the hormones crashing too fast or not but I ate them anyway. I don't know if my attitude helped- I just thought it's another stage of my personal physical life. Not an illness, just a passageway. We didnt medicate our puberty did we? and that was horendously hormonal and I remember the awful embarassment of the unpredictability of those first periods too. Advertising suggests the menopause is catastrophic emotionally and physically for women which is rubbish and generates fear of it. Even Germaine Greers book 'menopause' which my husbands tactfully gave me one birthday, is over dramatic about it. Your body will start to want to hang onto any extra fat at this stage so it's not a time to sit on your bum. Perhaps when innuit grandmothers got dumped on the ice to die, the ones with the most personal lard survived! This is just my opinion and my experience but a lot of you mothers will have tried to have had as natural/normal/non-medically-interventionist pregnancies and childbirths as you were able and will have railed at the old fashioned interventionalist policies of years ago. So it should be with the menopause. It's just another phase, and resiste getting it caught up with ideas of personal or sexual self esteem. We endure childbirth (which is much more challenging) because at the end of it there is the reward of a baby. At the end of the menopause there is the gift of the person you were before you had periods. Remember her? the one who liked writing books and riding ponies. Expect it to go well, like you expect your pregnancies, don't anticipate disaster. Ride it out for as long as you can. But for some it will be unendurable and awful and of course that's what the NHS is for. But give your body a chance to see what it can do on it's own first.

any resident around the scaffolded structure would have been alarmed-there was confusion over which planning applications were going through and the council had said that one application precluded the other. Amott road play group is a bit different in that people were not living there too. Of course Mrs D was worried. I have been told that the nursery will be run by totally different people and will no longer be a residence, which I find reassuring and acceptable. As long as the council check everything is in order and specifically check the safety of the very tall breezeblock wall that was erected as their garden boundary two or three years ago, I won't be worried.

nobody consulted me and I back onto it!

I suddenly realized as I was watching the latest episode on i player (I'm a late devotee and watched all the episodes within 3 evenings, now I'm itching with cold turkey)that I was wearing the same top as Pernille, and I can assure you it was Noah Noah which is a Danish label I believe. Unfortunately it didn't have the same visual effect on me.

congratulations to you all!

do the dodgy people have to come from outside of ED? I'm across the track in Peckham and we are getting a bit fed up with being denigrated in this way. We have lovely people around our way and a fervent neighbourhood watch. Mugging is pretty opportunist and your crims most likely going along that way because its their locality and seeing their victim rather than hiking from over here. Complacency about 'lovely ED' makes you more vulnerable. There are a couple of roads in ED coming up again and again in these mugging threads and its naive to think the muggers are not from round there!

agreed re parking, but I was going in and out twice, making the journey four times, in one day and time was a premium. It saved me oodles of time compared with peckham rye london bridge and tube. The quicker it comes to Peckham Rye, which was promised yonks ago, the better.

eh, no, I really did glide; or it felt like that compared with the normal trains.I'm sorry if my enthusiasm for the simple things in life draws your jaded ire.

this was a successful experience! I risked it and drove, immediatly parked HOP end of Devonshire drive in the only space in existence and glided effortlessly into Londons glamorous east end. I cant wait for it to be connected to Peckham Rye .

thanks very much everyone!

I'm going on my maiden voyage to Shoreditch via the east london line tommorow morning. Does anyone know of any parking restricitons around residential streets of Honor Oak Park? Also I am assuming HOP is in zone 2 and I can use oyster?thanks.

not in this bit of nutbrook which is adys end.

RSPCA in Norwood high street are always very grateful. Also i found the loveliest hospice charity shop near Greenwich railway station- the ladies kept the shop open past closing time while my daughter and friend tried on everything.

we have a wire cage around our letter box. Also our house is very untidy and if I can never find my car keys, bag and cards I am hoping a burglar can't either.

ballet on mondays, tap on thursdays in the units off Gowlett Road- Ballet taught by Fiona Foster and tap by Jenny. There are several classes for different ages. There is also an adult class for both.

she may not be eating because her belly hurts....

PeckhamGateCrasher I used to ogle internet pictures of that beautiful house a couple of years ago when it was 650 thousand. In that time it's doubled, unbelievable!

We are only the third people to live in our Victorian terrace. Our house remains pretty original with rooms arranged without being knocked together. The sisters of the builder were the first owners. Followed by an old lady who ended up living with her sister in an informally divided house. The two things we changed, eventually, was to move the huge bathroom at the back to the middle of the house. I think they were just stuck on the back of the houses when bathrooms became de rigeur. Also adding a window to the back of the kitchen overlooking the garden. So many houses we looked at were ''blind'' at the back, with ony french doors from the ''back sitting room' overlooking the garden. This is because no one wanted to be in the garden and have to look at the skullery maid in the kitchen working away. A couple of years ago, to make room for a piano, we knocked away a very solid looking corner''shelf'' in our dining room- it turned out not to be a shelf, but the chimney from the old copper boiler in the kitchen running to the main dining room chimney. Some of the original wallpaper appeared when a radiator leaked onto it and we have exposed it all in the hall. We have succumbed so much to the original spirit of our house that sometimes I think it is us that are haunting it.

East of The Rye, I wonder if your child goes to the same comp as mine.(Two words, first word four syllables) We have had offers of exorbitantly priced trips several times over the three years she has been there- overpriced skiing, ridiculously expensive short trips to the States and recently an art trip to Morocco- we said no to all of them! And so it seems did many others- the american trip was cancelled because of low uptake. Instead, My daughter went on a budget skiing trip with her (very active!) granny last spring half term, at a quarter of the cost for twice the time. She is not bothered at all about us dismissing these school trips. There doesnt seem to be big peer pressure- I dont think many are in the financial position to accept them and even if they were-they are clearly overpriced.