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  1. Dream a Little Dream of Me - I sing this to my little girl at bedtime too, think my rendition is pretty good actually! gwod Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This > > > > Always loved it - and now I sing it to my children > at bedtime....never so beautifullyl as Ella > Fitzgerald or Mama Cass though....
  2. My Swedish friend tells me that there it is considered cruel to neuter/spay cats, so the female ones are given birth control pills in their food! Don't know if it's a cultural thing or just her! thexwinglessxbird Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > People ho do not spay their kitties. SPAY/NEUTURE > YOUR KITTIES!!!!!!... what is wrong with you.
  3. Sounds the same, but the result is that unless they let you work on bank holidays you use up more days of leave by working on Mondays. Fuschia Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Smiler Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > If you work on Mondays, working time rules mean > > that you end up losing some of your annual > leave. > > At most places, bank holidays, which fall on > > Mondays, are compulsory days off. The > difference > > between your pro-rata entitlement to bank > holidays > > (which won't cover all of the Mondays) and the > > total bank holidays is taken from your annual > > leave entitlement. > > > > Conversely, having Monday as your non-working > day > > means that you get extra annual leave, since > you > > can't take the Mondays, so your pro-rata > > entitlement for bank holidays is added to your > > annual leave. > > In my job, the policy for part timers is always to > calculate the annual entitlement to annual leave > plus bank hols then to prorata it and then those > who work part time take theitr annual elave and > bank hols from the days they receive.
  4. With respect to childcare, it might be tricky to leave them in a creche or whatever, depending on how your little one gets on when left. We went on an all-inclusive Club Med holiday in Portugal early last September, which was expensive but fantastic. We didn't use the childcare (only available in the daytime), though it looked good, but a lot of parents we met who had planned to use it (and had paid for it in advance) found that their toddlers (even those who had a nursery/childminder at home) got upset and wouldn't settle, so they couldn't actually make the most of the childcare. This year I reckon that going away in the UK with mates/relatives, ideally with no kids themselves, who are willing to babysit a bit is a good plan (for us at least, maybe not so good for them)!
  5. It might be worth a call to the ACAS helpline.
  6. How are you "paying your way"? Presumably the electricity, water etc. is in the owner's name?
  7. Went to the Lambeth Rosendale Road one last weekend and they didn't ask for any info (we were in a car). They don't take plastics, which seemed odd.
  8. I don't like the school meals thing either. Also think that the pledge for a place at a local school is meaningless unless the performance of all the local schools is good.
  9. Oooh, Dulwichmum, that is great news, my scar is a right old mess with a bulge above it etc. Am also somewhat scared about VBAC. Can't believe am almost wishing for another C-section! Maybe they could do a quick tummy tuck at the same time.... My recovery took a while, defo worth visiting the GP for advice about pain etc.
  10. I am a parent of a toddler and am concerned about the variable quality of the local primary schools. It would be helpful if you could expand on how, in practice, you might 'guarantee' a place at a local primary school more fully (would you, for example, build more schools, or employ more teachers and have extra classes in the admission year for some schools)? Also, would you seek to increase the number of places at the better-performing and more popular schools, perhaps leaving those that are currently in special measures or less well-rated (e.g. Goose Green) undersubscribed? I understand that the plan of the current council is to have "bulge" classes at the most popular schools, to be determined once the places have been allocated according to which schools are more popular: presume that some of the cash could be used for this.
  11. The Southwark primary care trust (PCT) / Guy's and St Thomas' thing is a separate issue and might be good for discussion on a separate thread. PCTs are being required to separate their commissioning and provider functions by the government, so if services are transferred, the staff who provide those services will be transferring to another employer. Think that the idea in this area is that the Guy's and St Thomas' Trust take over the provision of the community services from several of the PCTs. (I don't have any direct interest, but am a public member of Kings and am interested in NHS organisation etc.)
  12. If you work on Mondays, working time rules mean that you end up losing some of your annual leave. At most places, bank holidays, which fall on Mondays, are compulsory days off. The difference between your pro-rata entitlement to bank holidays (which won't cover all of the Mondays) and the total bank holidays is taken from your annual leave entitlement. Conversely, having Monday as your non-working day means that you get extra annual leave, since you can't take the Mondays, so your pro-rata entitlement for bank holidays is added to your annual leave.
  13. Think you have topped even the sportacus fantasies of another thread! ryedalema Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Not sure - I just think he looks like he hasa nice > body. > > Ooh - I sound like a perv now. > > littleEDfamily Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > What's your vision of Lead ZingZilla? What do > you > > reckon lurks beneath??? Just trying to get a > > visual.... > >
  14. DMC have been great for us, though not near the station. It is a big practice with long opening hours and a few Saturday surgeries. I have found the GPs good with kids and with women's health issues. For babies and young children it is often possible to get on-the-day appointments.
  15. Yay, the power of the forum again!
  16. Have there been any public statements from the Council about this that could be posted here so that people can see the "official line"?
  17. Hiya, Haven't experienced this, but a friend did and eventually felt 100% better, but it took her a year or so to get back to normal. Think that there are some local services, e.g. follow-up checks at Kings (referral from GP), to help. As a new mum it sometimes feels difficult to ask about your own health, but is likely that GPs etc. will be supportive.
  18. My one has always been bright and breezy and full of beans even after the worst nights, which is lovely but odd, wish I had some of that energy!
  19. My daughter has just turned two and I always post on these threads as the sleep deprivation has been hideous! Urgh. At the start of the year we had a good patch and for the first time since she was born I began to feel OK, but are now being woken up twice a night (1am-ish - when our noisy downstairs neighbour comes in each night and makes lots of noise, when she sometimes settles herself or just has a quick cuddle, 4am-ish, when she is harder to settle) and up for the day at 6ish. Urgh. It has made a big difference to me to share the night work with Mr Smiler in the last six months or so: he is now suffering and feels hungover all day too (without the fun of the boozing the night before), it feels fairer! Our daughter settles much better for him than for me in the night now, perhaps because she knows there is no chance of him giving up and bringing her into bed whereas I occasionally crack! Mr Smiler also taught her to go to sleep by herself when settling for the night, which has really helped, at least now we just plonk her in her cot while awake and get a bit of an evening. Fully sympathise with and recognise comments about lack of sleep affecting enjoyment of parenting, have felt like this in the darkest moments. Exhaustion just seems to make it harder to cope with everything, kids, relationships, domestics, work, general life! I don't want to wish time away, but is sometimes hard not to look forward to a lovely time of full nights of sleep!
  20. Have put a message on Cllr Barber's thread in the general section of the forum to ask him to respond. How stressful for people who are waiting.
  21. Cllr Barber, please could you comment on a thread in the family room (link below) about the date for parents finding out about primary school admissions being delayed from April until after the election? Thanks. http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?29,445495
  22. Don't know the lady, but know exactly what you mean, trying to make friends can sometimes feel a lot like teenage dating, with all the fears of rejection etc.!
  23. I am miffed with the Chair for moving the thread about payment for homeopathy on the NHS out of the drawing room: why is a thread that concerns the use of the resources of the NHS less suitable for the drawing room than other topics being discussed in there? I am not personally in favour of funding for homeopathy on the NHS and would have liked to debate it!
  24. Kiddicare is really good, have had lots of stuff from there and all been fine, good delivery service. Also good for returns / any problems.
  25. I too thought that childminders were a bit cheaper than nursery. I'm another fan of the childcare vouchers. Am not 100% sure, but think that the men might be able to start buying them even before using them to pay for childcare, e.g. while you are still on maternity leave, i.e. start making tax savings in advance. Not all nannies/childminders accept them though (though those with childminders/nannies will know more about this). Being ruthless, though, if your goal is to save up for a new place to live and perhaps also reduce your commuting time to work, it might be sensible to move (somewhere cheaper?), so that could have the option of your parents helping out for a day or more each week. We are probably going to leave East Dulwich soon 'cos of the high cost of housing here (sob).
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