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I had to get a few rooms and the hallway in our house repainted recently in a very short timeframe (between us moving out and our tenants moving in there were only a couple of days). A local friend recommended I try Ashley from Ashley Newman Decorators ([email protected] or +44 7885 734626)and I'm so glad I did. Ashley came round very soon after I contacted him to give a reasonable quote and was impressively knowledgable about paint/decorating and very personable with it. I had a tight timeframe for when the work needed doing and he rose to the challenge, despite being on holiday himself for part of the time so he had a colleague able to do the job. The two of them dovetailed their availability and did such a good job - I'll be using them again for some other jobs I need doing and I'll also get them to repaint before we move back into our own home (what I mean is the standard was so high I want to enjoy the finish myself, not just leave it for our tenants!). They were professional,punctual, really hardworking and were very affable with it.

we're going to classes at St Dunstans rather than the Nunhead venue. I think that the website should have term dates for all the venues.Good luck!

I'm just about to start my kids with superkids swim school and their classes start next week (on wednesdays) but I think that there might be some classes that start on Sun as I saw that somewhere (i've just had a look at some handouts I had and there are sunday classes at st Dunstans whcih start on 1st May, I don't know about saturday classes). I suppose it depends on which days your kid(s) go. hope that helps - you can check out their website www.superkidsswimmingschool.co.uk which has downloads of term dates

they are super cute and i've got two girls who i'd love to see this kind of dress/long top (i'd prefer it in that style I think) come the winter. Will you make them in larger sizes other than for babies?

Am looking for a new place for our 8 yr old to go to football club/kick around/class/training. He has been doing weekly lessons for the last 3 years but has just outgrown the age group and in the next age group up there aren't enough boys for a proper game so I'm loathe to rebook as I don't think he'd get that much out of it and wondered where other people's kids go for this kind of club and what the options are locally. Thanks.

think they must all be on Underhill Road !

just to comment again on the drops of hope thing - they write "registered in England and Wales" (and put a number) but don't acually write charity on it, i guess to absolve themselves of guilt. Also the picture of the child's face with hand in mouth is particularly wrenching... I will keep my stuff till a genuine collection comes round or until I get to a charity shop to drop it off.

excellent, thanks Louisiana, "your search for The drops of help ltd" has produced no results" acc to website you list. They have a "charity reg number" on their bag which is outrageous since they clearly aren't registered. And, DJ Killa, yes I hear you, I would like to get to a charity shop ideally but just now I liked the convenience of the door collection; some are genuine (Scope, Age UK and British Heart Foundation for example have door dropped around here and are genuince collections for the registered charities) and so I hope others aren't scammed into donating to people who as you rightly put it, sell for personal profit. It saddens me to think that people do this and it must mean that the genuine charities lose out on donations.

Hello, wondering whether anyone knows of this company/charity who dropped a bag through the letterbox today (unsurprisingly given my username i live on underhill Rd) asking for clothing etc donations to be collected on Thursday. Was just sorting out a pile of stuff to put in the bag when it occurred to me that this might be one of those dodgy companies that just collects clothes to sell to market stalls in developing countries rather than an actual charity. On the bag the written English is slightly dodgy and I can't get anything when I google the name of the collection "drops of hope"... any thoughts?! Clearly I want to donate to a registered and reputable charity who actually gives the stuff to where it is needed and not to line the pockets of some profiteering salesman who is sickly pretending to be a charity??

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Hello All, it seems like I would find it a bit of a waste of time according to your comments so i'm going to give it a miss (dutchestate family - looks like I won't see you there but perhaps at one of the breastfeeding support thingys post birth - hope it all goes well for you!) and I really really appreciate everyone's comments. Thanks all.

Thanks to all of you who posted on this thread. It was really useful to hear your feedback on the Kings course as well as on breastfeeding 2nd time around in general and recommendations of places to go if we need some help. I really appreciate all your thoughts. Thanks X

Hello... just wondering what you think - I am having (not our first) a baby in a few weeks time and was wondering whether any 2nd or 3rd time mums had been to a breastfeeding workshop or whether you felt it was pretty irrelevant since you'd done it before. I breastfed my last child, albeit with many problems to begin with, I found that I managed fine in the end once we'd both got the hang of what we were meant to be doing - though i have to say the first few weeks were pretty traumatic for both of us (probably for baby due to her birth which left her a bit traumatised according to the doc and for me as we had to feed her with expressed milk through a pippet for first week before all calmed down and the breastfeeding started to work). On the advice of the midwife I filled in the form to attend the breastfeeding workshop run by Kings, held at Dulwich Hospital, but this was months ago. Now a few weeks away from giving birth I don't know if I can find the time to attend the 4 hour session next week but am wavering since it might be worthwhile having a refresher on the subject. What I'm wondering is - for those of you who have breastfed more than one child - did you find it all came back to you easily or not? Would you have benefited from a 'workshop' or am I going to waste my morning when I have childcare arranged for a few hours already and I could do with using that time to do other admin that is crying out to be done before next baby arrives. Advice please, thanks X

we decided we had to make the move from cot to toddler bed when our daughter (then about 22 months) decided that she would fling herself over the sides of the cot whilst still in her sleeping bag. Not ideal and possibly pretty dangerous! The cot was at its lowest level for the mattress and it wasn't a cot bed so we couldn't take the sides off. We got a toddler bed - off the EDforum actually so 2nd hand and it is great (but no thanks to the person who sold it to us with an incomplete set of screws and support bits to fix it together and that is a whole other story) and our daughter took to it pretty well. We got her used to the duvet in her cot first before we moved to the big bed. When we first moved her it took her about a month to realise that she could get out of bed herself and this coincided with her being unwell so it was a whole month of her hollering at night to come and get her and early in the morning too. Then she stopped being ill and slept right through in her bed from when we put her in at night (though now bedtime is a little less rigid as she does have to be pretty tired or nearly pretty tired to just stay there but this is about 90% of nights in reality) and in the morning she started to just get out of bed and start playing with her toys or going to her big brothers room to play with his (usually he is awake before her but when he isn't she soon wakes him up which is usually ok but sometimes it is just too early and in that case I or my husband have to swoop in quickly to take her out of his room before he wakes up). I still have the stiargate at the top of the stairs so she can't go downstairs before we're awake incase she starts causing chaos in the kitchen or something but otherwise it works pretty well. Except for the nights when she decides that she wants to be awake (probably once a fortnight) and then she refuses to go to bed at bedtime and keeps getting up when you've put her in bed and no amount of reasoning or anything will work (shes 2 and nearly 4 months). But in her defence this is pretty rare. Good luck with the transition.

glad she is on the mend X

hello... our 2 yr old daughter had this bug (well it sounds the same) last week. Lasted for 5-6 days and started with vomiting in first 2 days then explosive runs for the following 3-4days. She didn't eat anything at all but she was thirsty. The doc I spoke to (i called to see if they wanted me to take her into the surgery or not but since no fever accompanied it they said not to unless fever came or if the diarrhea carried on for more than 4 -5 days). Unfortunately she didn't sleep that well at night, sorry, but that was perhaps because she was napping in the day (and usually has given up her daytime nap ). It took a few days for her appetite to return to normal after the bug went but now she's eating so much that I think her body is making up for it, and quite amazingly, eating stuff she wouldn't even eat before she was ill. So I hope your little one gets better soon and hopefully it won't last much longer. If you are worried though you ought to call the doc of course again.

oakwood come to you. Good luck with your search

Magic Moments have been great for our daughter and she started there a little before she was 2 - they do take kids from 18mths - but they are closed on Wednesdays. Have you tried Piplings - there are several posts on this forum about this new Creche which is behind the Horniman Museum apparently.

hello, i'm with Oakwood midwives right now and though they deliver at Kings (well you do obviously!) they are quite keen on homebirths, infact I get the impression that they'd rather you had a home birth. They are based out of Forest Hill Road Doctors Group practice. Oakwood midwifes number is 0208 299 5696 - if you call them you will get an answerphone but someone ought to come back to you in a few days after leaving the message. I don't know what their "catchment" policy is but worth a call to find out I suppose?