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End of June is closing date and all ages may enter (so as soon as they can hold a camera up to 18 yrs) :) Email entries to [email protected]

Polydrons are a great toy I'd say for kids up to around 7-8... Magnetic shapes so no mess and easily tidied (and don't hurt your feet when stepped on like Lego!)

Thanks to The Goose Is Out for organising the fab bands, Tippeetoes for supplying the bouncy castle and Eos Dance, K&O pest control, LiveLoveLocal loyalty card scheme and The Glitter Tattoo station for contributing towards the cost :) Thanks obviously to everyone who came along to support and bring food etc. too! The stewed chicken & rice and strawberry tarts were particularly delicious...

Ulverscroft Road and Crystal Palace Road have joined forces to organise what should be a fabulous street party event - we will have a bouncy castle; face painting; glitter tattoos; food & drink and live bands (thanks to The Goose Is Out)! This is for adults as well as children, so please come along and join us 12-6pm Sunday 1st June. Please just bring a bit of food / drink to share with your neighbours. We will also be raising money for charity (Evelina Children's Hospital) so please spare a few pennies if you see a collection tin :) Hope to see you there

Portrayed Photography are offering some great prizes (inc photo shoot) - just get your child to take a pic and e-mail to enter. See East Dulwich Mummy website for full details! (PM if you need the link as it won't let me post on here)

Anyone know of any good clubs or things to do with an active 4 year old locally please? I want a change from Horniman, swimming etc. so any art & craft sessions or sporty things would be great. Thanks :)

Bright Horizons near Sainsburys on Dog Kennel Hill

I love East Dulwich but commute to Paddington. Wouldn't live anywhere else though - you have everything here you could ever want / need - from bars/restaurants/nice shops to parks/museum/art gallery and lots catering for kids and family life... You can get easily to London Bridge or Victoria from ED or Peckham Rye (or Forest Hill just up the road) and commuting is always horrible, wherever you live, lets face it!

hmm might not go back - but everywhere else SO ridiculously pricey... i usually wait for GMs 50% off offer and grin n bear it, tho today has me thinking twice.

I have been going to GMs for years and years and always found them reliable, fairly reasonable (comparatively - for this area!), if slow service. I went today and my goodness, my last visit I wasn't impressed to find that a blow dry wasn't included in a haircut price (had to ask her for the brush and dryer in the end and do it myself, wasn't willing to walk out looking like wurzel gummidge) but TODAY was so much worse... Usually happy staff had been replaced by grumpy / sour faced teens, the girl who did my hair looked like she had sucked a lemon and didn't speak to me throughout except to laugh [once] at something her colleague said to her. She even huffed when I had a sip of my drink (as she had to stop for at least 5 seconds). Then the worst part - the hair wash. My gawd I have never known such a rough wash in my life. The only saving grace was that she didn't have the usual false nails. I felt like my head was in a spin dryer being tumble dried. "Do you want a head massage" usually meets a "Yes please!" erm not today thanks. If she could do that when washing imagine what a head massage would be like - cheese grater treatment perhaps?! I expect the woman also having a hair wash had similarly rough experience as she also declined a massage and looked eager to get back out into the salon daylight and have her hair finished (by the lovely Millie - one recognisable face, lovely as ever). Once the "rough drying" began - which essentially meant a comb through and her running her chewed nails through my hair whilst waving the dryer somewhere near my head - I knew I was at risk of looking worse than when I came in and paying for the privilege. And I did. My parting was wrong. She said "Is that dry enough?" (erm well, let's see do I want to go outside with damp hair when I have a cold and after paying ?50 for highlights?!). I guess so. What's the point in making a fuss, just to be met with more grimaces or possibly shocked faces at someone daring to point out their inadequacies. Surely I should just be grateful I got a half price offer. To top it off the lingering at the till when I paid was almost too much. Really, you expect a tip of any kind after that treatment??? My tip is charge less, treat customers better, include a blow dry in whatever the customer is having, and BE NICE :) I shall only be returning on a Saturday when it is busy enough for you to get great treatment to a trusty hairdresser I have had before! What a shame, a lovely day ended by me being out of pocket and looking hardly any better. Humph.

Just to warn everyone to take care, woman had her card stolen out of her hand last Saturday lunchtime... Couple working together - one saying "oh it wouldn't take my card either" aim to confuse, snatch card and woman waits few mins then also runs off. Terrible.

Wish someone would open soft play in industrial unit on east Dulwich road!!

Amazon seem best place, they're pricey but brilliant and so robust! The new Lego :)

Ariadna sole as recommended above :)

Justine Perry or Shutterbaby both great

Sounds great!

Magi mix is amazing

I'd recommend Bright Horizons nursery nr sainsburys. I looked at cherry tree but having to prepare packed lunch daily and price put me off, seemed okay but nothing spectacular. Good luck with whatever u decide

My sister in law with curly hair has this treatment and if u use decent salon it's amazing! Hers grows out it lasts so long.

Sounds amazing, I'd love to see new york

East Dulwich Nanny Agency charge a fixed fee, we used for after school and found them great to deal with.

This sounds like such a good cause, great that so many locals are supporting! Good luck Xavier x

See following link http://londonmumsmagazine.com/event/free-weaning-workshop-by-a-registered-dietitian-14-march-2013 or East Dulwich Mummy website :)

Sylvia and Inay Rodriquez are amazing, muschamp rd se15

See wwweastdulwichnannyagency/events.html for full info