PeckhamNicola

my bet is it's the same group and no amount of talking to is going to make a difference.

A friend of mine, not living in this area, goes to a silent book club. they each take their own book to read. at the end they talk about what they've been reading. I like that idea! Quite a lot of the libraries apparently have book clubs.

Unfortunately there are plenty of shops which don't care and will sell vapes, alcohol and weed to minors, I'm sure they won't care about selling them fireworks. Or the kids nick them.

Returning to the question, although still not directly answering I'm afraid as ive not lived on that road: I have previously lived in a house where the railway line was behind the house and over a playing field, and also in a flat blocked from the railway line by at least one more block worth of houses. I would not live that close to a railway line again. In the house the noise with the windows open always disturbed me at night. And you need to bear it mind it is not just the timetables of passenger trains you need to consider, at night time there could be freight trains too. That was my problem in the flat: not noise, I was shielded from that, but the weight of the freight trains passing made the whole building shake enough to wake me up. If you are a sounder sleeper or less sensitive to noise it could be fine. I would suggest checking if freight trains use that route though.

They are very funny at the Herne Hill Oxfam, for a charity book shop, about accepting book donations. Last time I tried to drop off a few bags the woman there was quite cross so I took them right back out, and I will not go back again. Definitely had this very same conversation on this forum before, including about the parking. That time I drove them over to a different charity bookshop in Streatham where - shock horror - they thanked me. And since then I've taken other books in smaller quantities to local charity shops.

kids can drink in pubs at 16 if accompanied by a parent who buys the drink. and some restrictions about what they drink- eg not spirits. astonishing I know, but revealed to me by my son who is generally lazy when it comes to schoolwork but very good at research on certain key topics.

Luckily many makers of comments in national newspapers are not, so crack on with the moderating!

Yes, we have a Casio CT-S100 we no longer need, except I dont think we have the headphones any more. £50? https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7333639

It is safer to cycle on a red light and get a headstart over the motorists, rather than to set off at the same time as them and have them all impatiently overtaking / getting too close behind you. It makes you much more visible to the motorists to be ahead rather than alongside, and you can get some speed up by the time they set off. There's a difference of course between doing this with due attention to pedestrians and/or cars coming through in the other direction, compared to cycling through at speed forcing pedestrians to jump out of the way.

No, the behaviour exhibited on the Rye, and now maybe neighbouring roads, goes far beyond 'age old silly behaviour'. It is intimidation.

Yes, we have a Casio CT-S100 we no longer need, except I dont think we have the headphones any more. It has a USB connection. £50? https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7333639

Hi I really thought I'd seen a more recent post on the forum about home education meet ups. I can't find it though. Hope some of these might provide leads. https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/137603-home-schooling-advice-anyone-wants-to-do-it-together/#comment-1092093 Very old post but group seems still to exist: https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/92044-home-education-local-group/#comment-954837 You could try contacting this forum member: https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/325368-classroom-support-for-home-education-community/#comment-1621064 Two of these left for right now: https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/events/event/1025-🌟-teens-11-try-painting-sculpture-street-art-at-holiday-workshops/

does either of them have a surgery? probably not over summer, but I thought they had to give the opportunity for their constituents to meet them.

Meson Don Felipe on The Cut was my go to place for many years. Though it's now many years since I was there. 10-15 minute walk from the Tate. If you go can you tell me what it's like nowadays?

I have heard similar about both Deptford Green and Elm Green, I believe the latter has some sort of ADHD provision. Deptford Green is much smaller than either Charter, which in hindsight would have been much better. There is so much crowd control in the bigger schools and they are busy and noisy.

I would sell it and probably buy another - despite not knowing how reliable the next car would be. This is because if I knew I had to pay the ULEZ that would definitely stop me from using it most of the time, as it has done you. Or sell it and not buy another car but pay for a taxi as and when needed. This would still feel painful to me, so I'd need to keep thinking how much I'd saved by not paying tax, insurance, MOT, repairs etc and see how many taxi fares that covered.

what if they don't recycle your note?

or worse: they could be putting food waste destined for the little brown bin into the larg brown garden waste bin. tut tut tut.

Don't move to Southwark at all, save yourselves while you still can. Terrible place for teenagers, IMO.

So many times.

In my experience, if your child's SEN leads to behavioural issues, do not send them to Charter North. It's just endless detentions and threats of exclusion. Too many people try to get in because it is Ofsted outstanding. Not a good sign for SEN, your child would likely be better off in an Ofsted Good school with a better understanding of and attitude towards SEN. The new SENCO might turn things around.

Gulf of Nunhead?

Try the Ivy House in Nunhead https://www.ivyhousenunhead.com/whats-on#regulars Or: