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Find it interesting (looking on mumsnet at threads on primary allocation) that lots of areas prioritise in catchment children over out of catchment siblings - wonder how much of a difference this would make to catchment areas. Paddy - I'm v curious as to where you are (not expecting you to say on forum) as I'm approx 350m from Ivydale & will be applying for next yr which will be 2yr post bulge & a year pre 4 form entry coming in.

....1 week to go - Lucy Porter will be MC'ing & other acts TBC

Museum of London docklands is good, also going to north Greenwich & having a ride on the cable cars (use your Oyster card, kids go free & normally get a capsule all to yourself). On the plus side, collar bones heal quickly & kids are normally pretty good at avoiding using/protecting it themselves. He'll likely not need a sling by end of this week. Don't be shy to use regular analgesia :-)

EmED Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think Luca's is meant to be closing sadly, and > is apparently being replaced by a sushi chain, > according to the people in Cave de Bruno. I > haven't been to Blue Brick or Pretty's, so will > definitely check them out...thanks! > > I would love an Antipodean style cafe with good > smoothies, eggs benedict, waffles, pancakes, > french toast, good granola with berries, > interesting salads and cakes etc. The cafe you describe (albeit without the antipodean slant) is in ED: The French Cafe on Forest Hill Road,

Agree with the other posters above - these threads are starting to feel like infomercials... Isn't there a way to block particular posters from view?

Have met twins called Gold & Silver before - we wondered if Silver would have an inferiority complex when older, also if a 3rd child would be Bronze!

(Weirdly replied on this thread before I'd seen you ask me about it on the other thread!!)

We went to Sensatori Tenerife last June (& hope to return in Sept) - it might be the same as the Melia hotel you've looked at. The main pools were 'acclimatised' rather than heated, so not very warm, but fine when you're in it (DD was 2.5yr in a Jojo wetsuit would spend an hour with us in the big pool & be desperate to get the suit off as soon as she was out as she was so toasty!). The kid's pool was warmed & she'd be happy in there with just her regular suit on. We'd never done a "fly & flop" holiday before, & how much we enjoyed it took us by surprise!

After hearing the news, hugged my kids tighter at bedtime too. Didn't follow her career, but she came to my attention last year when she did a good job of defending AP against Katie Hopkins on This Morning - she seemed do sorted & happy being a Mum & wife. It's so sad that her sons will only know second hand how much she loved them.

...have you been away from the forum for a while?! Think answer to both those questions is on the first page of the main section ;-)

> What depressing news. > > Both council and external educational improvement > managers have told me that the ideal size of a > primary school is two or three forms of entry per > year. On this advice expanding Ivydale to four > forms of entry is at best a poor decision that > will affect the live chances of 120 children in > each year group. > > Clearly a better decision would be a new school. > > A new school would also have the merit of > attracting 100% new capital funds to the area - so > we're losing out by at least ?4.5M. But with this expansion being on a 2nd site which is over 100yrds away, it will surely be more like two schools than one big school - my (albeit uneducated) guess would be that they split into an infants & a juniors (thus minimising movement between the sites during the day for children) which in my mind is v different to the picture I feel your painting. Ivydale is my local school & find the constant sniping from you about how awful it will be for the children really sad. As I've said on here before, the Harris primary school results/high league table position driven mission statement unsettles me as it sounds more like a learning factory than an environment for young children. I've seen Ivydale as it currently is & while it is obviously in need of more space, I really liked the school & how happy and proud of the school the children are - it felt much more holistic than just going for league table placings. Given the financial hardship facing the country (due to the coalition that your party is part of) I would have thought that being able to save some money would be a positive & guess that a chunk of it would be due to Ivydale already having the infrastructure to run a school & expanding this won't be as expensive as another organisation having to start from scratch.

No advice I'm afraid, but just wanted to say that I'm so sorry you're being put through this for what I can imagine is a stressful enough time for you & your family. Can't believe the attitude of the head teacher - surely he's not so busy that believing or at least being more tactful to you. Hope all goes ok once you're in NZ x

Info now on the site - tickets ?8 & no charge for the babies :) I'm not the promoter so can't answer queries, but did suggest The Ivy House to them & am v excited to have a stand up gig I can go to without disrupting br/feeding!!.

V excited to say that there's going to be a daytime comedy gig for families with babies under 1yr on Tues 22nd April. http://www.screamingwithlaughter.com (might not be details of the Nunhead gig on the site yet). Will post more details (like time/acts) when I know more, but v excited as have been missing seeing live comedy in the last few years!!

Had Conways replace the pavement on my road few weeks back, thought something was up when I saw the sign saying they were expecting it to take 2wks (the pavement is no more than 50 metres long) it ended up stretching to 3wks & of that half the time no one was there (the final week was just waiting for tar acing round the tree roots). I ended up being on nodding terms with the one guy who was consistently working on it (most of the time on his own) so much so that I saw him working on their pavement works on NCR last wk & he said hello!

Went to Sensatori Tenerife (posh Thompsons holiday) last June & hoping to return in Sept. Is all-inclusive & offers lots of free activities, amazing pools & great kids entertainment. Think there's a few other FR-er's who've been there too.

Find the nature of the posts from A-Chan and Yuuna very chippy - have you both been slighted by *everyone* on this forum previously?! It's very nice that as her former employer (looking at your past posts) Yuuna, your defending A-Chan, but your both disliking that others are debating what you are writing and - shock horror given it's a public forum -not completely agreeing with everything you are saying. By making such long posts of what appear to be cut & pasted chunks of legislation, I think many of us have found difficult & pretty boring to plough through, more succinct posts talking of the problems you'd had/how unfair you've find the experience if trying to find a job with local families (I'm guessing, although in your first post I noticed the jobs you linked to weren't local) you might have found more response/discussion. Instead, you've both been really defensive to the posters who have ploughed through & been kind enough to respond & try to help forward the debate adding more chunky posts & killing off further conversation. I can empathise with you regarding age/experience being questioned - as a paediatric nurse I would sometimes have parents ask I had children myself (any that point I didn't), and deride my years of experience over the fact I hadn't at that point met "the one" and been able to start my much longed for family - I can guarantee that all of my colleagues were asked the same question by parents at one point or another. It is unfair, it shouldn't happen, but your manner of posting is meaning the important issues are being lost on most of us.

sylviamaria Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have to say that this thread has relieved me > slightly. My 3 year old daughter has turned into a > little ... cant really find the words! I was > worried it was the arrival of her little sister 2 > months ago, but the blog describes her perfectly, > so it must be an age thing! When does this phase > finish!? Everything I say she has an answer for, > she has decided she doesnt like any of the foods > she used to and she can go from happy to screaming > in less than a second! I am mentaly exhausted most > evenings! Well, DD's nearly 3.5yrs & DS is now 15wks & things are seeming easier than they were when I started this thread, but there are definitely still moments that DD would challenge the patience of a saint! I've a friend who has the same age gap as me between her DD & DS and by the time her son was 6mths she felt that they were out the other side, so not long to go!

fapl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Best to know there is tongue tie though > immediately after birth, if it doesn't cause > problems and does not require treatment, great. > Knowing can save weeks of heartache when nobody > can explain to you why your baby can't feed/you > can't breast feed. It will also save tens of > thousands of women giving up breastfeeding in the > early weeks when that is not what they want to do. > > > Saffron, if all babies are checked at birth and > all midwives are trained to identify posterior > ties (volunteers in the community are successfully > trained to identify this problem so it shouldn't > be specialist, it shold be standard training) as > well as more standard and obvious ties, hopefully > a lot less babies will be reach the point where > they are referred to specialists for 'failure to > thrive' and other feeding issues. I am sure a 10 > second check by midwives will cost the NHS a lot > less money in the long run than appointments for > all these babies being otherwise being referred to > specialists. > > The article, 3% of babies affected! Where did they > get that stat from?! It is loads more than that. Completely agreec(& prob far better put than my post!)

Agree that not all babies need treatment for tongue tie, but, if it's assessed early on then surely it'll reduce the stress/increase chances of successful breastfeeding in those babies who do need it released. Especially having had problems br/feeding first time round (wasn't assessed for tongue tie but at 4mths HV thought she saw a posterior tie - disputed by MW's at br/feeding clinic). Having worked on a HV team (not in this area) I've been disappointed by how little training/teaching on feeding probs is given to health professionals dealing with new mums/babies even doing the UNICEF breast feeding training only talked about the latch but no discussion of tongue tie/how to recognise it or what the pathway for care was.

Strawbs - I went to the Peckham BF cafe that Gina's mentioned (& remember meeting Gina there *waves*) & found them really supportive and reassuring when I was needing support regarding Bugglet's feeding (was v difficult to get her to latch & had to use nipple shields for first 9-12wks).

We did get Bugglet a cardboard playhouse for her 2nd birthday - was fab as it didn't cost anywhere near as much as many of the playhouses, and could be "decorated" by bugglet as she chose. We did up grade to this one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Ninja-Corporation-2743-Office/dp/B001DXGVCY/ref=sr_1_3?s=kids&ie=UTF8&qid=1392496562&sr=1-3&keywords=supermarket+tent For her birthday this year - both pack up easily if not wanting to have them out all the time.

Their fab, although I have done No14 myself (even today at lunch- Bugg'un was asleep in the sling & the alternative was dripping food on him!!)

Pickle - he's more chompy on his fingers (to the point of me wondering if he was about to start teething!). I'd stopped swaddling his sister well before 13wks, but did it so quickly I've no idea how it happened so easily! Feels like I'll be doing some kind of wrapping him for a long time to come!

Hopefully not knomester - although it does make it clearer to me how lucky I was with bugglet!! I have bought some Velcro swaddle sack things from amazon & tried them out, but where Bugg'un is at the upper end of the size limit, he manages to wiggle an arm out the bottom of it and then cries as his arm was trapped poking out from under the Velcro band which seemed to annoy him even more! (Look out as likely to be advertising them for sale soon!!). D_C - had looked at woombies & had kind of ruled them out, but if anyone has a few spare/left after their babies have grown out of them & happy to lend/sell I'd be ruinous to try them.