tracymcdavis

Did your new year resolutions include something about "giving back" to your local community? - Let us help you with that! Volunteer with us for 90 minutes a week (and just in term-time) with our local Brownies group. We meet on Monday evenings from 6 to 7:30 pm at a local school off Lordship Lane. We are a non-religious, non-denominational group - no church parades or other things you remember from the 1970s. We are just interested in giving girls aged 7-10 an fun packed programme. By volunteering with us, you can help girls build their confidence, learn new skills and have loads of fun. You don't need any experience - just a willingness to pitch in and enjoy yourself. You can be aged 18-80 and you don't have to be female (although I admit most of guiding is). You will be CRB (criminal record) checked if you do decide to volunteer with us regularly - as anyone working with children is of course. If you'd like to find out more - please PM me and I'll happily call or email more information. Thanks Tracy 15 East Dulwich Brownies

Hi. Has anyone had internal wall soundproofing done - and had someone they could recommend to install it? Thanks

Did your post-lockdown resolutions include something about "giving back" to your local community? - Let us help you with that! Volunteer with us for 90 minutes a week (and just in term-time) with our local Brownies group. We meet on Monday evenings from 6 to 7:30 pm at a local school off Lordship Lane. We are a non-religious, non-denominational group - no church parades or other things you remember from the 1970s. We are just interested in giving girls aged 7-10 an adventure packed programme. By volunteering with us, you can help girls build their confidence, learn new skills and have loads of fun. You don't need any experience - just a willingness to pitch in and enjoy yourself. You can be aged 18-80 and you don't have to be female (although I admit most of guiding is). You will be CRB (criminal record) checked if you do decide to volunteer with us regularly - as anyone working with children is of course. If you'd like to find out more - please PM me and I'll happily call or email more information. Thanks Tracy 15 East Dulwich Brownies

Thanks everyone. I know Ganapati well and order from there more often than I should! I will definitely try Everest Curry King when I can - they don't deliver to SE15 unfortunately. I have a friend who lives down that way so a trip there to eat in will be on the cards when it's possible. I'll come down to see Oru when I can too.

I've got a real craving for some Sri Lankan food this weekend. One of the things I miss about going into town is regular visits to Hoppers. Does anyone know of anywhere that delivers to SE15/Peckham? Thanks

Another vote for Deep Sea on Vestry Road. Really lovely chips and mushy peas - I'm afraid I cannot comment on the fish as I'm a veggie. ---edited to change pies for peas - mushy peas = lovely, mushy pies - not so much---

Thanks Localist - that's exactly the sort of thing!

Our house used to be a launderette and so has a 60's shopfront across the ground floor. It needs replacing but we want to keep that look of a shopfront (glass, metal) although the house is domestic use now. Is there anyone local who does this sort of commercial look - but on a domestic scale? I hope that makes sense! Thanks Tracy

It is at Harris Academy Peckham - the entrance they use is on Lyndhurst Way

I believe there is a knitting group that meet at the Peckham Pelican - https://www.knitnibble.com/post/knitting-club-in-peckham. I've not been as I cannot knit but I want to learn so may head there soon.

I second that TownleyGreen - but we just put all our meat waste (just cat food in our household) in a box in the freezer and transfer it across on bin day. The rest of our waste doesn't seem to attract any "fly babies".

Thanks everyone - lots of great suggestions. We ended up getting a treasure train around southwark - although we slightly curtailed it due to the heat.

Thanks for the tip on the treasure hunts - really love that idea. I think we might head in to do the Southwark one with Borough Market and HMS Belfast.

Thanks! Funnily enough somebody suggested a treasure hunt that includes HMS Belfast so I think that might work. You re so right - it seems a funny age- it was so much easier when they were 5 and a trip to Peckham Rye was amazing :)

Help needed please! My sister and her two children are visiting from out of town for the weekend - I don't have children and so I'm not very with it on great activities out locally. I'm looking for something to do with them on Friday, preferably locally as we are going into town Sat and Sun. They are aged 10 and 11 - one girl and one boy. We are in Peckham - but Camberwell, Dulwich even out to Brixton all good! Doesn't need to be free. We already have the crazy golf at the Horniman booked for Saturday morning. This time last year we did a chocolate bar making workshop at the museum of Chocolate in Brixton - which I am still earning good Auntie-points for :-) Thanks in advance Tracy

Help needed please! My sister and her two children are visiting for the weekend - I don't have children and so I'm not very with it on great activities out locally. I'm looking for something to do with them on Friday, preferably locally as we are going into town Sat and Sun. They are aged 10 and 11 - one girl and one boy. We are in Peckham - but Camberwell, Dulwich even out to Brixton all good! Doesn't need to be free. We already have the crazy golf at the Horniman booked for Saturday morning. This time last year we did a chocolate bar making workshop at the musuem of Chocolate in Brixton - which I am still earning good Auntie-points for :-) Thanks in advance Tracy

I just wanted to say what a wonderful event this was. The young participants in the youth choir and orchestra (and the older ones!) - were fantastic. And Sarah-Jane Lewis - what a star! A big thanks to all involved for such an entertaining and uplifting evening.

I'd thoroughly recommend Lisa from Miaow Mates based in ED. She's been covering our holidays for over 3 years. Lisa 07956 255860 [email protected]

Id be interested in such a scheme for things like my weekly shopping. I agree a trike design might be a bit more easily usuable for those of us not used to using a cargo bike. As with all these schemes my usage would depend on how easy it was to be able to get it - would it be bookable for example - and how far I'd need to go to pick it up.

I'm sorry - I don't remember what it was at that time - it was about 7 years ago when I went to HighVibes. Before that I went for a while to a place near Tower Bridge. Just looked on the website though and it is ?20 a session - but it's cheaper when you book a number of sessions - going down to about ?14 each for 20. Thats seems inline with classes like pilates, yoga etc. Damn - you've got me thinking of going back now!!

I have some time back and found it really effective. You still have to exercise of course - but I did seem to get stronger much quicker than just doing weights etc. I have to admit it's been a while though as I can't afford regular lessons any more (and natural laziness on my side!). It was about the only time in my life I had muscle tone!

Some Whetherspoons have indeed started doing pizza...https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/food/pizza . Not in Peckham last time I was there but did have one down in Ramsgate

Isn't this exactly what you are not supposed to do on Social Media? Surely these services are gaming the system and cheating and conning users? The whole point of "organic" comments is that they are ORGANIC - you don't pay for them.