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Does anyone have any recommendations with two young kids? I was wondering about Amsterdam. I know forumites always have some great tips/ideas ... Thanks

Rebecca at Grove Vale practise is excellent.

Yes. 1st was 40 hours of very hard work. 2nd 9 hours- 4 hours at home- gas and air and a water birth at Kings- it was fast and painful but really lovely and I felt really empowered by the experience.

We stayed at a Pierre Vacance site in N France- amazingly good value and all facilities on site which you could use or avoid as you wished! It was full of kids and mine made friends from all over Europe- they played out together every evening and had a ball, they still reminisce about it now!

Grand Hotel du Bahia is gorgeous. We stayed in late October and the weather was still really warm.

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PAYE - half the price and very efficient.

It's a heavy original cast iron fireplace It's going to be purely decorative So doesn't need to work! I want someone who knows what they are doing please In SE22 Thanks Becca

I need a new door at the side of my house To be painted to match my fromt door And really solid and heavy with a bolt and lock Please pm me if you can help

Not close but Sudbury Hall in Staffordshire is amazing- it has a museum of childhood- great fun.

We won one two years ago- the shoot was great fun but the pictures are very expensive. I also spent a fortune as they were so good!

Paye for nannies- much cheaper than Nannytax and really helpful/efficient.

Growlybear can I ask was this recently or a while ago?

We have children at the Horniman. It is a lovely friendly school. The teaching in reception and year 1 has been excellent. It is smaller than average with a great outdoor space and what a view! There are huge choices of excellent pre and post school clubs. My daughter is progressing really well academically but more importantly to us she loves her school. She feels proud to go there and has a great group of friends.

Well said mrs.lotte. I agree entirely.

I think anyone with a place at Goose Green should be thrilled.I think its insulting for someone to be moaning in the paper about being allocated a good school when there are lots of fraught people here with no school place at all yet.

Yes ... roll on 5 indeed. Good luck to all waiting.

Likewise the Horniman. We love it. It's a smaller than average friendly school with great outdoor space. Our daughter is so happy there.

Thank goodness. At last you get someone who is hearing how you feel and what you want x

I am so sorry to hear this has happened. I hope you finally get the support you deserve tomorrow. If not please pm me.

I agree with Pickle. Be honest as diplomatically as you can. Friendship groups change all the time at this point I find. Your daughter found it upsetting last time and I would just say you think they don't really get on that well. At least you can have a break for a week with half term...!

Recommend Science Boffins- google them. They do really exciting/funny experiments- explosions- magnets- balloons- fireworks etc My daughter had them for her party and it kept 14 6 years olds enthralled for an hour!

I would like a frame built with monkey bars/slide/swing I wondered if anyone locally does this rather than buying a standard one Thanks

Hi we are on Therapia We got into Horniman in a bulge year and we love the school. We were told by Fairlawn we had virtually no chance getting a place there and this was two years ago unless we waited on the list and maybe got a place after the year had started. It's such an anxiety provoking time- good luck!

We went to the Forte Village- got a reasonable deal from Citalia It was heavenly and the facilities for kids were just amazingly good