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Still looking for holiday club activities for children over the summer? KICK will be running Sports KICK Camps at Dulwich Village Infants' School from Monday 26th July to Friday 13th August between 9am and 4pm for children currently in School Years 1 - 6. Activities include football, street dance and a wide range of multi-sports activities. There will also be opportunities for art and craft activities during the course of the day. Cost is a very reasonable ?35 per day (?17.50 if you are in receipt of income based free school meals) and each child is required to bring a packed lunch on the days that they attend. For more information and to register please contact Dulwich Village Infants' School [email protected]

This guy literally ran into me coming out of a drive way on Dulwich Village just before Christmas - all in black and carrying a big black bag. My initial reaction was that he looked a bit like a painter and decorator that had once done some work for us and whom we have since recommended alot - my first reaction was that it was him that I'd banged into and I greeted him with a "Oh, hi". He said something along the lines of "You have a beautiful smile but the people around here are all so up their own ar$s$" .... needless to say I was a bit taken by surprise and realised on hearing him that it wasn't our painter and decorator. I did wonder afterwards whether I had interrupted a burglar leaving the scene of a crime, such was the speed that he came out of the driveway and thinking through the large black bag that he was carrying ... I did let the police know about this incident incase there had been a break in reported with a description - but seeing this post with the picture attached makes me feel a little bit better as I can probably assume now that he'd just been given the short, sharp shrift from someone who he'd been hassling on their own front doorstep.

Hello Our car was subject to significant damage while parked on the right hand side of Matham Grove outside the EDG nursery between 9pm on Sunday 12th July and 7am Monday 13th July. Predictably, there was no note left. In the midst of a pandemic, with two small children needs to consider and where public transport is not advised, now not having our car, is a significant inconvenience to say the least. When the insurance company picked it up yesterday and made an initial assessment, the evidence suggested that it had been caused by a vehicle driving up Matham Grove in the wrong direction. Their theory is that they encountered something coming the other way in the right direction and veered into our vehicle to avoid a head on crash, while the vehicle that was travelling in the correct direction veered to the left and avoided a head on collision as there is a dropped curb on the opposite side of the road to where our vehicle was parked to allow access to garages. One of our neighbours has picked up some grainy footage of a vehicle, clearly damaged but travelling in the correct direction down our road, from their security doorbell camera. This has been passed to the insurance company for further investigation. Can anyone make any further suggestions as to where there might be CCTV that shows a car turning into Matham Grove from Lordship Lane in the wrong direction. Or if you have any further information that might relate to this incident, we'd be grateful to hear from you.

Hello We're due to move house in the next couple of weeks and need to make multiple trips to the Southwark Recycling Centre to clear out our rubbish. At the moment, we're allowed one car load with each permit but I have just discovered this morning that we're not allowed to book another permit for another 14 days after we've visited - meaning I can't book another permit following yesterdays visit for another 14 days. We've been clearing stuff since we went under offer 10 days before the lockdown but haven't been able to dispose of it during the lockdown while it's been closed. At this rate, unless the restrictions are lifted on the 4th July with the rest of the lockdown easing, we're going to run out of time to get what we need disposed of (there are several more car loads). What are our other options? Are there small skips we can hire to bin it all into and have it taken away? Or is there some other option that we've not thought of. Many thanks in advance!

My experience is now 5 and 3 years ago and lots will have changed in that time but these are my thoughts. My first pregnancy and birth at just past 40 was without complication and wonderful. I was under the Lanes Caseloading midwives and had my daughter in the birthing pool in the midwife led unit and was discharged 4 hours after she was born. My second pregnancy with my son 18 months later had complications from 28 weeks and he was delivered via an urgent induction at just past 37 weeks after a very speedy delivery in a normal labour ward. He and I were then in for 48 hours observation. All was fine after that but those nine weeks were some of the most stressful and miserable weeks of my life. I had a huge amount of monitoring appointments and I was regularly there for hours with a 16 month old toddler. I was very grateful to have the hospital so nearby - the thought of regular trips any further afield getting toddlers and buggies on buses would probably have sent me over the edge. I was initially under the care of the Juniper group (the Lanes having been relocated in the interim) who were great but once there was one complication in the mix, Kings weren't keen for them to manage my pregnancy and I was then passed from pillar to post. I'm articulate and work professionally in a related area of public policy but I could completely see how people fall through the cracks as there was no communication from the hospital back to my midwife team. People on the whole were professional - I was turned away from one appointment because the consultant decided that I didn't need seeing despite the referral coming from my midwife - I wasn't the only one that afternoon. At that point my midwife (who was furious!) put me in touch with the Director of Midwifery - who at that time (I assume that she's still at Kings), was an amazing woman who put the wheels in motion so that I had as much of the birth that I wanted and that was safe. I was desperate to avoid a c-section (and there was no reason as to why I should have had one) but I was concerned that the hints that it might 'suit the hospital better' and that I'd be railroaded into it. The birth itself was mixed. I was finally induced about 4pm (so going into the evening and labouring into the night which was one of the things that I hoped to avoid, given that we had a choice when the labour started). It was fast and furious very quickly. There were woman in other bays, first timers, who I could tell having done it once before, were close to fully dialated and yet still in the induction beds. Having done it once before I had an advantage and struck it lucky with a shift change when the midwife in charge of the induction ward found me a room so I could have a bath (bliss!!). When the new midwife came on duty, she went mad that I was out of my 'induction bed' but I basically refused to get out the bath and as she had other things to deal with, she allocated us what turned out to be the most amazing midwife - quite experienced but new to Kings, who listened and could tell that I knew where things were at and that they were going super fast. Meantime all the consultants floating around the place telling anyone who would listen that I had hours to go and mustn't go past midnight (I delivered at 10:10pm - I knew it was quick and said to my husband that there was no way that this was still going to be going at midnight). She eventually abandoned all the crazy monitoring that we were supposed to be doing and literally just got her gloves and gown on in time to catch my son after I muttered the immortal words, "I don't think that I can't push anymore". 48 hours on the maternity ward was pretty miserable - avoid it at all costs and get out as soon as you can. The midwives there were on the whole, pretty ho hum - my final midwife though who was highly experienced and took much more of an interest in me and my baby rather than just taking my blood pressure and administering my medication was excellent. She took time to answer my questions rather than saying she'd get back to me and then disappearing and not returning. There was also a superb (very, very busy and hard working) breastfeeding support worker. I'd been a huge breastfeeder with my first - I fed her to 17 months when she decided that my pregnancy milk wasn't her thing - so I'd hardly stopped before I'd started with my son - and he was a pro more of less from the minute he was born and there wasn't a huge amount for her to help me with - but if had been my first, she'd have been a wonderful woman to have had help from. Other than the children's allergy clinic at St Thomas' (which is excellent, if not very busy and pre Covid you waited at least 6 months for an appointment for a food test), I've not really anything to compare Kings to. It is a big, busy hospital that creaks under the weight of huge underfunding and a community where much of what presents is highly complicated - but I suspect that is probably the sort of environment that St Thomas' is in as well. If you have to fall into their systems, you are treated as a number for the most part ... My advice, if you can, stick with the caseloading midwives and use the midwife led units. If there was going to be a third and I had no constraints on the sort of care that I could access, that's the route I'd be going down.

We've recently sold our East Dulwich property via Knight Frank's Dulwich Village office and would highly recommend the team there. We had a false start with the KFH office who wasted a lot of our time showing buyers through who weren't interested in a house just off Lordship Lane, which was demonstrated by the lack of second viewings and whose response was to drop the asking price considerably after advising us that this was what we could expect to achieve. Knight Frank achieved a sale in excess of the KFH advised guide price.

After an first assessment at Kings where they determined that I wasn't eligible for NHS funded cycles, we threw the kitchen sink at it and went to ARGC. It's full on but the intensity of the treatment and the constant monitoring and adjusting of treatment through the cycle gave me every confidence that it was worth every penny. I had two cycles in quick succession, the first was unsuccessful but the follow up consultation after the failed cycle was excellent and they had clearly learnt a lot in the course of my first cycle. My second cycle was horrendous - I was very ill throughout most of it and nobody was more surprised than me when it resulted in a pregnancy .... albeit one that didn't last the distance. In the end I have ended up having 2 children without further intervention .... my first was conceived 2 months after my second failed cycle, 3 months before I turned 40 and she is now a healthy 5 year old .... our second just arrived, I found myself pregnant with very little effort 14 months after the birth of my first at 42. We tried for several years before seeking help... we had all the advice "just don't think about it", "learn to relax", "your job is very stressful" and I ate and exercised well and I lost the weight that was deemed to make the different and gave up the booze for years ... all the time everyone around us seemed to just have a good night out and hey presto! Infertility is miserable. It tests you and your relationship in every way. With the beauty of hindsight, I am quite convinced that while the ARGC treatment didn't result in a pregnancy, it certainly laid the groundwork to wake my body up so that it could carry a baby. Every best wish to you!

The seal on two of the double glazing panes in the glass roof of our side return which is 20 plus years old has gone. The glass is murky and has condensation. Can anyone who has had similar recommend someone who can repair it?

Are there any day time or late evening meeting/weigh in groups in East Dulwich, Peckham Rye, Dulwich Village or Herne Hill? Most seem to meet bang on children's dinner/bath/bed time which makes actually getting to them for the support virtually impossible!

Once again this morning the neighbours of this restaurant have come out to find chicken heads, bones and lemons alongside other assorted food and kitchen waste from the restaurant all over the pavement on the corner of Matham Grove and Lordship Lane. All nicely mixed together with fox poo. This is a regular occurrence and it?s disgusting. It?s frequently impossible to navigate small children and their buggies around the mess. Residents in the street have approached the restaurant staff and management on numerous occasions requesting more frequent commercial food waste bin collections and for staff not to dispose of food and kitchen waste in thin plastic bags when their bins are full to no avail. Complaint has also been made to Southwark Council in the hope that they can address the issues with the restaurant owners but nothing ever seems to change. All the other local restaurants, of which there are many nearby can seem to be able to manage their waste, so what else can we do to force this repeat offending business who has no respect for the residents that neighbour it, to improve it?s game?

Hello, We're the current owners of 6 Matham Grove. We bought the property in Sept 2011 and the previous owner had been in the property for 29 years. Going by your information, that would suggest that they purchased it from your relative c1982. We have some knowledge of the history of the house - it was built by the church and at some point in it's life it was used by the church as a children's home, as were several others in the street. These properties were all eventually sold off into private ownership. Our buyers documents revealed that a covenant still exists on the property that prevents us from opening licensed premises from the property. We are aware that the previous owner had the paper deeds to the property that detailed much of the ownership history of the house. Deeds nowadays are electronic (and ours are in the control of the bank as we still have a mortgage on the property) but we still have occasional contact with the previous owner and I'd be happy to contact him to see if it were possible to get a copy of the deeds. Perhaps you could DM me.

Hello This post is a bit of a long shot but I'm trying to track down a dressmaker who lived in a road near Loughborough Junction who made a dress for one of my bridesmaids in 2012. Foolishly, I have lost her details but made initial contact with her through this forum. In the event that you are the dressmaker who I'm trying to track down and you remember the job, the dress that I had made, was a teal green silk, knee length with a cowl neck - not unlike the style that Pippa Middleton wore but much shorter in length. You made one for my UK based bridesmaid and there were two others in the same style and fabric that were being made by another dressmaker in New Zealand. I think that you also made a lot of fabric curtains and blinds. Anyhow, my reason for this slightly desperate post is that Anyhow, I now have another friend getting married in January 2014 -she's based in London but she's going home to NZ to get married. As I understand it, she's bought an off the peg wedding dress but it needs some alterations - some nips and tucks so that the fit is better - as well as taking up. I was really pleased with the job and it would be nice a) to recommend you for more work and b)for my friend to use someone for her wedding dress alterations whom she knew had done a good job for someone else. If you're the lovely woman or if my description matches anyone else who others on the forum know of or who have made clothing or curtains for them, I would be most grateful for some contact details that I could then pass to my friend!

Can anyone recommend an individual or organisation locally who can put the proverbial sledge hammer through our old computer and provide us with a certificate confirming that they've destroyed it?

We're in Matham Grove and it's woken us/kept us awake several times in the last couple of weeks. There is no way it can be residential - it rings for the best part of an hour at a time, several times a night. If someone closer to it could identify where it is, I'd be more than happy to alert them and ask them kindly in the first instance, to get someone to investigate why it's going off and waking half the neighbourhood.

Where do you find the space to keep all the bins?