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Hi,

I?m looking for a carpenter that can make us a cat tree/ structure that can go across our kitchen window. Size is c. 1.7m x 1.8m. and design is something like the attached (my awful rough sketch!).

If you can help, please send me a PM with an estimate of cost.

Many thanks

Hi Elizabeth,

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We are actually gearing up for some further development work so if anyone has any feedback, would be great to hear via PM!

Strictly speaking, it's not a family topic but we are an education start-up started by two mums in Dulwich and we are currently looking for a lovely photographer (being totally in tune with children would be a huge advantage!) who can take a few product photographs for us.

We would ideally like someone with a studio in SE London area or happy to have the shoot done at our house.

Many thanks in advance!

Amy

Thank you Lorraine - her work looks amazing!!!!

We live on Mundania Road and it is exceptionally quiet - friends from out of town who come and stay can?t believe we are in London!

Hi mums and dads

I am staring an exciting business and am looking for a children?s illustrator (i.e. story books) that can help me create an engaging and interactive illustration-based stories for digital/ print format.

I would ideally love to work with a local mum or dad, leveraging off the great network and the community we have here so if you know anybody or is interested in finding out more, please drop me a line at [email protected] or send me a PM.

Thank you!

Also agree on 50:50 split and have done so in the past (although my two were at school and the other nanny share child was not). Ultimately, you can?t really split ?attention? based on the number of kids as harsh as that sounds! If it does bother you though, you may be better off with a 1:1 share or sole charge perhaps?

We just switched to Sky after 3.5 years with Virgin and crap broadband, landline that never works and incredibly poor customer service. I have also officially requested all records of complaints we logged over the past few years as I want to take this up further. I just don?t think it?s acceptable.

When we ended the contract with 30 days notice, I was then told the direct debit for next month has already been requested so I would simply have to pay it and call them to request a cheque for a refund, which can take up to 30 days to process. It?s just one thing after another!

Used to live off Melbourne Grove and now near Peckham Rye having spent a while specifically waiting for a property to come on the market on Marmora, Therapia and Mundania Roads. We primarily wanted to move for more space and a bigger garden but towards for end of our time in East Dulwich, the train service was so bad that it was turning our daily commute into pure misery.

Peckham Rye is incredible for transport (63 or 363 takes you straight to station), park on doorstep is so nice and all the hip restaurants popping up on Peckham high street are making the area really quite lovely.

Plus the parking space!!!! Have honestly never looked back and this is coming from someone who absolutely adores Lordship Lane.

That?s grea! Thank you!

Been looking on the internet for ages but couldn?t find a solution - we are looking to cover part of our son?s wall in custom sized pegboard. I think somebody with access to a drill that can cut holes, and cut wood would be able to do it if we get some plywood/ timber sheets. Any suggestions? Happy to go to a carpenter?s workshop too!

Recommendations gratefully received.

We are looking to have electric sliding gates to the driveway installed and am keen to have recommendations if anyone has had gates installed.

Many thanks

Amy

Thank you James - will send you an email now!

Resurrecting an old thread as we are looking to apply for a dropped curve to have our front garden turned into a driveway and are struggling to get an idea of cost and timescale from the council. Has anybody recently done this in SE22 and if so, would you be able to share how long the process took and the cost payable to the council?

We just had our walk in wardrobe re-done by Flavio from Lorencini Bespoke (http://www.lorenjoiner.co.uk/index.php) and are absolutely delighted with the result.

Great attention to detail, a very friendly and hard working team who have a very very happy client in me!

Went to CP Hart for inspiration, then replicated the look we liked using Bathstore items and builder making us a bespoke double basin stand. Happy to send you some photos if you send me your email address!

The basin that we had made - I got the idea from deVol which is primarily a kitchen company.

I also read that it's worth getting good quality taps (from a mechanical point of view) so that's what we did. We got quite cheap basins and bath though.

Looking to have our external brickwork cleaned and re-pointed, with some stonework repair. Would be grateful for recommendations

We are looking to have iron railings re-done to the front of our house, and also exploring whether we should make the gates electronic.

Would be grateful for recommendations.

We would be interested in this!

We make a massive deal out of Christmas in our house (3 trees is given).

One new "tradition" we started last year is picking out toys that the kids have grown out of, or never opened duplicate ones, wrapping them up in gift wrapping with a tag for boy/girl and suitable age. We had a fun filled but meaningful day doing this together and then taking them to Barry House in the run up to Christmas. Our two boys have already started picking things out they would like to donate.

All very helpful suggestions. Thank you so much! I think I will definitely try a few trial runs.

Very helpful. Thank you all!

Hi,

I am considering a job in East Croydon area and am likely to try driving. I just wanted to check if anybody does this commute regularly around rush hour to get a sense of how long it might take and whether traffic is bearable?

I have two young children and therefore can leave the house at around 7.30am and need to get back for 6.30pm at the latest...

Thoughts/ advice much appreciated!!!

Another Easigrass fan here - we had the Kenisngton range installed for out football mad son and it is AMAZING!!!

We have a lovely au pair who has been with us since January. She really misses her dog back home but we don't have a dog unfortunately.

If you have a friendly dog and would like occasional help (walking, minding etc), please do drop me a line.

Somebody near Mundania Road (off Forest Hill road, near Peckham Rye Park) would be perfect.

Many thanks

Amy