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Can highly recommend Colin at it-buddy. Collected my laptop within hours of giving him a call and offered to drop it back too. Very quick service and very reasonably priced. Thank you Colin, hope you get lots more business :-) www.it-buddy.co.uk

Super helpful - thank you both!

Can anyone let me know what the sizing is like for Mini Boden - does it come up small, large or just right? There are a few things on ebay I want to bid for but my daughter is a tall 3.5 year old so I thought I should investigate first. Thanks for any advice!

Yep, we went to Emmanuelle Marshall today - so impressed with the service and the prices, am going back next week when she gets her new boot stock in! Generally a lovely experience shopping in the ED Warehouse - we ordered a coffee (which was brought to us whilst we were doing the shoe thing)and could pay for everything on a card when we were finished. Vowed to myself to make a concerted effort to support these places - people going out of their way to provide great service, you don't realise how much of a difference it makes until you experience it.

Hello Can anyone let me know about any classes or activities or playgroups that run on a Saturday, that might be suitable for a 1 year old? thanks.

poor cat, sorry philiphenslowe. Have you spoken to the police?

Really louisiana - that's awful. What on earth??! Thanks everyone. Penguin68 - I don't think it's toughened glass and it definitely isn't double glazed so I do keep telling myself that it's just an air rifle. Just kids. No intent. Trying to stay rational and not panic. it's just too bloody wierd. x

Sorry to start such a horrible thread but have just had a quite a scary experience and am wondering if it has happened to anyone else. I wasn't actually at home but my mother in law was feeding my baby daughter in the kitchen when she heard what she thought was a lightbult exploding above her. It actually turns out that something had been shot through the french doors, at about sitting-down head height. There is no sign of a bullet or a ballbearing but there is a definite bullet hole in the glass - and the glass ended up about 30ft down the hall. The police have been - they are a bit stumped as they can't find any bullet or anything but as we are not currently involved in a gang (at least I don't think we are) they seem to think it's kids with some kind of ballbearing gun, just firing to scare. Which they did very successfully. Where they might have fired from is a mystery as our garden is pretty enclosed, it's all really odd and pretty horrid. Has anything like this happened to anyone else?? we live on Barry Road, Lordship Lane side. I'm sorry, I am not trying to scaremonger - I'm sure it is just kids, messing around, but they just don't realise how scary things like this can be. thanks x

How sad, I'm really sorry James & Emma (& Buzz). We had one of little pieces of paper put through our door from PennyDreadful and although it made very sad reading, it was so heartening that someone had gone to such trouble to find the owner and help out their neighbours. Thank you PennyDreadful. x

Yep,totally agree. My take on the whole dummy thing is if you have something that's going to help calm them down and stop them crying, why wouldn't you use it?! All the books say use it as a last resort and whether you think it or not, you probably are so don't fret! It's ridiculous how many hours I've whiled away worrying about the fact my daughter has a dummy - and now at 6 months, the only thing she is interested in doing with it is biting the hard side to help her teething...all the time I was worrying about how I was going to "wean" her off it by 6 months (like all the books say - but my baby doesn't read the books, don't know about yours?!) and of course now I wish it still had the same effect that it had a few months back....poor baby can't win! xxx

sorry, have just noticed that you were all talking about the same crash, sat pm!

another crash? there was a bad one on saturday afternoon too, again about 3 or 4 cars.......and an Ikea lorry. It was right outside our house but we were out at the time....we've started parking our car around the corner as most of the damage seemed to be to the parked cars..