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As Bawdy Nan says, the dog had no owner. That was the problem. Leads, muzzles is nothing to do with it, if it doesnt have an owner on the other end of these things even if they were enforced. An owner would have been a good start for bringing this dog under control and without that everything else is irrelevent.

thanks!

wonderful computershorty, thanks for that, much appreciated.

I'm probably being very thick here but where do I book- Ive found the online page but no mention of passwords. Do I register as a new online member? thanks folks.

my daughter and her chums went down to see this last week . Johnny waved.

I don't want my children to be my facebook friends- I want my adult space as much as they want their teenage space. But having said that I keep my ear to the ground re my children and keep myself informed. Re parties where there are no parents present, I remember at that age we always knew which house had the laissez faire parents where you could smoke. As a parent I make myself aware of who those other parents are and my children know that I know and it takes a lot of pressure off them, they can always blame me to extricate themselves from a situation. Mobile phone texting and emailing have opened up a whole new area where our children can have uninhibited communication- I don't spy on mine but Ive said I may take a look from time to time - as part of the deal- and I do. It's a boundary that means they know they can be checked up on.

or cage your letterbox

louisiana is that to add to the growing list or on the current list- was it Woody?

Family Membership is twenty pounds a month more expensive than membership of JAGS- surely some mistake?

Hi Nappy Lady, I have a few wrap around nappy pants from when I used cloth nappies, just found them in the loft! ten years old! any use to anyone or shall I bin them?

yes we had the man and woman calling, but I never engage with door stop sellers.

With greatest respect BB100 I prefer to ask kids who are there (mine and their friends) rather than kids who are now in their twenties and left several years ago, dreaming of halycon days when they were basically getting the equivalent of a private education for free. Under the old regulations my son would not have got in. But he did get in and I for one am jolly pleased.

Sorry I'm confused..so these best teachers were the teachers that went off to a private school when the comprehensive they were teaching in stopped creaming off the best kids in a selective process by any other name and started to stick to the proper rules of comprehensive admission?. Are you sure they were really the best teachers? Or just the teachers who only wanted to teach the best and screw the rest? The brilliant teachers Ive known in my life have been able to teach anyone. Perhaps the teachers who left didnt really believe in the principles of comprehensive education? After all they left a grammar that became comprehensive to go and teach in a grammar that went private....

Hi Emily, my children do enjoy the school and have made good friends. My son didnt seem to know who came from which primary but the new primary fed about forty children into his year, making up about just under a quarter. However, the premises of the new primary have burnt down and the entire primary school will be temporarily housed in portacabins on the main school premises carpark. for two years. (I hope Ive got this right) Perhaps that will affect your choice. I spose the question is, would your friends son have felt more/less confident at another school and if so which one? I think my children would have been happy at Askes, Kingsdale, Charter, Sydenham -but perhaps not at the Harris Academies. They are all big schools and a shock after the cosiness of primary school. re the gcse results- I think the school are horrified by the way. Theyve probably been far too smug in the past.

ladyofleisure, I have two children at Haberdashers, in year 8 and 9. One is very academic and finds the school stimulating and stretching and she is doing well. The younger one is not very academic, a bit of a dreamer, dyxlexic who was pidgeonholed in primary school as a bit silly and lazy- and he is doing well too. The school were very quick to move him up a set as soon as he made progress in maths which has done wonders for his self esteem. He also gets once weekly dyxlexia support. As other people have said on this thread, Haberdashers used to be selective even when it wasnt meant to be.It's taken a few years for the more comprehensive intake to work itself up the school. So there are children there now of lower abilities who might not have got in before. It's how well those children are doing that's the question- I think higher sets are still doing very well. So the question is, is the school failing the lower sets? or is it unrealistic for the government to expect every candidate to get 5 A-Cs including English and Maths? I have no idea, but this may help you make up your mind: linkhttp://www.hahc.org.uk/images/uploads/Admissions/Secondary_Transfer/Hatcham_College_Exam_Results_pdf.pdf which will match levels of candidates with their results. I think that's very informative - you can work out who's getting the A starred results and what's happening with everyone else?.

Some do Bob- depending on whether they have the back up.

Get someone to film show to put together showreel. Send showreel to agents. Use facebook to invite as many people as poss to show including agents. Put clips from show/showreel on facebook. Set up a website ditto. Print business cards as they are easy to hand out and for recipients to hang on to. Pictures are much cheaper to get done now it is all digital. Get them done and pay to put one in Spotlight.

The Dulwich Society ??owns two houses near Dulwich village where residents live fairly independently but with a resident housekeeper. Recently when a flatlet became available it was advertised in the south london press I think.

Askes (Hatcham), Prendergast, Graveney.

well if she's abusing them, she's hardly going to admit it.

there is a friday night youth club at amott road baptist church hall which is very popular, 7.30-9pm term time.

what was the ED quiz has now moved to the Hob opposite Forest Hill station. It has celebrity quiz masters including Stephen Frost. The comedy has also moved there into a purposely built room upstairs.

just wanted to voice my appreciation for beautiful display of flowers and plants in Peckham Rye Park at the moment. The oval looks gorgeous. The gardeners have done a wonderful job.

*lightbulb flashes above head*- a perfectly executed wind-up to draw out the self righteousness of us all as we go all judgemental on her judgementalness?

Just another moment of East DUlwich bourgoise smugness where we float around in an organic fug morally leglislating to all around us ignorantly unaware of the many tiny ways we are screwing up our own children. Every sanctimonious swipe at others raises the chances of anorexia and mental illness in your own children. fact.(not really, I made that bit up) Perhaps smokey lady had left a violent partner, given up heroin, taken all sorts of steps that radically protected her unborn child from previous circumstances in ways you cannot imagine. Perhaps she'd had some terrible news about her family or even about her baby. I think you should take your health mission down Rye lane saturday and talk to some of the mothers in waiting outside macdonalds. I'm sure you'd get more than 'speechlessness' and a livelier debate would ensue.