monniemae

Ah. The way it was explained to us is, our local site is Hatcham Temple Grove and teh free school is Hatcham Temple Grove Free School. njc97, where did you get the info on the extra year's delay? The most recent info we got was via a leaflet trhough the door last autumn saying work was finally about to begin on rebuilding the site so the kids would be in by sept 2013, freeing the temp site for the free school while the new free school building is constructed. Would love some up to date info!

I live next to the temple grove site, which is supposed to be being rebuilt so the temple grove kids, temporarily housed on Habdersashers main site, can move back in September, presumably freeing space at habdersashers for the free school. I haven't seen even a hint of work at the temple grove site (which was burnt down a couple of years ago). So yes, they have a LOT of work to do by September!

I was prescribed Tranexamic Acid at same time as Mefanamic acid as it reduced the blood loss - helpful if your periods are v heavy as well? That made a difference to me. I found feminax better than mefanamic acid tbh. But the best thing I've found was to eat really healthily for at least a week before period - ie no white starch or sugar, just complex carbs etc. I swear it helped though I'm not normally one for anecdotal advice! And as I've aged it's weirdly tapered off anyway, much less painful now then two years ago (and the 20 years before that..) I do have a large fibroid but my periods were always painful - still, the GP was great about referring me for tests at Kings when I was complaining about painkillers not being enough. So do ask your GP. It's not ok to be bedbound / in agony every month. Also, could it be bowel pain happening at the same time? I also had that (gastric stasis during period) and that was real agony. Trick there is to stop eating till it passes. And defo agree that you need to take painkillers BEFORE the pain is really bad - first inkling or even before, otherwise nothing will touch the pain. hth

There's a new one at the new Gaia Studios on Oglander Road - saturdays 930-1030 with Barabara Mella. Haven't tried it myself http://www.gaiastudio.co.uk/

I did it for two or three weeks. Thought it was brilliant until I had a funny turn at work and nearly collapsed. Turned out I was having syncopal attacks, possibly triggered by low salt, and was also deficient in various minerals. So whilst the fasting didn't cause these I doubt I am certain it caused me to have a bad reaction. SO I've stopped! I thought I was pretty healthy and ate varied diet etc but if you aren't sure that you're topped up with various vitamins etc I'd be careful.

Another lovely cafe too

Your midwife suggested this?! I'm astonished. Here's a good starting point for understanding why. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2004/sep/23/badscience.science Re wind - there's some useful advice here on reflux - http://www.babycentre.co.uk/a567208/reflux For wind infacol can really help, but maybe speak to GP first. hth x

I used to recommend the Gardens though had a couple of bad experiences. I highly recommend Nunhead Grove Surgery particularly Dr Ackland.

Hello, I have just had an omnitub installed in our bathroom with a shower over it. My boyfriend is 6 ft and he q liked the bath - it is short but really lovely and deep. It was about ?400 I think but be warned building a frame for it was something I had to rope my dad into doing as the plumber wouldn't.

Fazer. "Mincing"? Suggesting he avoids the company of women because he's "openly homosexual" or maybe (despite your sharp observations) "in the closet"? Bothering to edit to say "I have 100% no issue with his sexuality if he is gay. But it might be why he appears to counter the wife's views..." What a chump. He might be disparaging towards women or discriminate against them but I don't think you can blame his sexuality for that, any more than I can blame your clear homophobia (however you edit it) on your apparent lack of intellect. Or is just that your intellect is in the closet?

I haven't travelled with a baby on either but Virgin certainly seem more helpful with passengers generally and the LHR - SFO route is a nice one - generally, large 747s and nice crew etc. But I'm sure they both offer the same kind of assistance.x

It wasn't the Health authority who booted me off with no warning when I moved temporarily .02 miles outside of the catchment while we had work done to our house though, was it? It was you guys. And you then cheerfully enrolled my partner, who was living with me, at the same address.

NB only really horrid driver I've ever had, most are lovely, I'm only (still) shocked that such an outrageously aggressive incident never got followed up and in fact "disappeared" from their log, even though the girl who took my complaint was apparently horrified too..

I'm interested in successful complaints too, I rang TFL in tears a couple of years ago after a driver on the 343 went completely psycho when I asked for my change at the end of the journey (as he'd told me to), chasing me off the bus and threatening to F* me up and various other nasties.. the only reason I didn't tell the police was because TFL promised me he would be interviewed and a manager would call me and I would be invited in and bla bla and no one ever called me back and claimed my reference number was invalid. So I gave up, and lived in fear of ever bumping into him again. *chastises self for not being more forthright / following up at the time*

Busymum it's not 13 weeks per year!!! it's in total over the years, so sunbob is right about being careful in case you need it in the future *amused at thought of all parents getting 13 weeks off a year* from directgov: How much parental leave can you take? Each parent can take a total of up to 13 weeks' parental leave for each of your children up to their fifth birthday. If your child is adopted, each parent can take a total of up to 13 weeks' parental leave. This can be until the fifth anniversary of their placement with you or until their 18th birthday, whichever comes first. If your child is disabled (that is, receiving disability allowance) each parent has the right to take up to 18 weeks' parental leave until their 18th birthday. * Caring for a disabled child (caring for someone section) Parental leave is an individual right and you cannot transfer the leave between parents. For example a father cannot decide to take only ten weeks and the mother take 16 weeks.

Tescos always been great for us - although I agree they don't pick the best fruit/veg (our large pumpkin was TEENY) - and they did substitute some bizarre wine in our last (pre-party) order so we had 4 bottles for same price as 16 - sent them all back. On whole though am impressed; OH would love to use Ocado but it's so much pricier?!

I didn't interpret the word as offensively meant, I get the context, I didn't think Candj was directing it deliberately at anyone, nor was I offended by it. I just wanted to point out it's a derogatory term, so you could perhaps not persist in using it or introduce anyone else to it as a valid term. You know, so someone wouldn't actually be offended in real life, because it probably would be better to say something else instead - so why anyone would insist on your right to use it is beyond me. Lots of terms are offensive whether said with malice or affection. Talking about Irish twins is fricking rude whether you meant it rudely or not. It really is simple. It makes no difference whether you mean something to offend, or whether you say it in jest, or whether you say it affectionately, or whether you heard your friend who IS that word use it about themselves, or whatever. If the term is (in this case CLEARLY) rooted in ignorance and derision, it is just unnecessary to use it. Pretty easy to say "gosh, now you mention it, yeah" and then use something else instead in future. You know, like "oh same-year siblings". It blows my mind that people would rather defend their right to use terms in ignorance, and now in full knowledge of their roots, rather than say thanks for pointing it out. It's the same logic that has words like Gippo, Paki and more still hanging around, still offending people, still invoking cries of "but it wasn't meant like that..." while people defend their right to offend. Crying "pc gone mad" is ridiculous - it's politeness, good manners, to show willing to talk about people in terms that don't belittle them.

One Irishman happy to use it doesn't make it ok in general parlance, have a quick google of the origins and maybe rethink using it outside your family home / context. My sister is mixed race Irish/Indian and the terms she subversively uses to describe herself would not be ok for me to use, or anybody else to use to describe her. If you used this term about my (literally Irish) nephews who are in the same school year, it would cause huge offence. The good humour or flippancy with which you might bandy a phrase about doesn't override its negative connotations - if anything it makes it worse. *exhale* Rant over. I would rather my kids never heard your kids casually saying "oh Irish twins..." in the playground.

candj Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Good lord! Not unless you wanted Irish twins, but > 4 days after birth is a bit soon! Does it not strike you that this is a flipping derogatory term?! Not having a go - but I'm surprised it persists. A close friend was recently picked up for using this in conversation (about same topic). And good lord, no, no way, after four days, NO!

My pregnant wife would like to see some kind of shop selling maternity cigs and lead-based toys.

I suggest moving to 1953 where it's safe and there are standards about this kind of thing.

Ligaturiosity Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > monniemae, it's a free world and you are entitled > to your opinion. However, your analogies are > beyond ridiculous and deliberately contrary. I'm not being "deliberately contrary" any more than I'm using "beyond ridiculous" analogies, I'm articulating my viewpoint!! I was hardly waxing lyrical with the analogies either. Everything I wrote is my genuinely-held opinion but you continue to dismiss anyone who disagrees with you as a bully or contrary or ridiculous or whatever without engaging with them.

Everyday since this thread started I?ve watched and read with increasing horror. I cannot believe that this woman thought it acceptable for her to verbally ?let loose? on another person in the street. Yes, smoking is harmful, yes, it?s better that women don?t smoke when pregnant, but it?s not just an ?allegation? that medical professionals can and do say it?s better to have the odd one / cut down than to freak out (or be freaked out by some horrible judgmental attack ? and it is an attack, when you judge and accost someone like that). Science and cause/effect is just not that straightforward that you can decide this woman was directly and immediately and identifiably harming her baby. And even if it was, the lack of empathy and understanding you show is astounding. Saila is right that someone addicted to this would be more likely to light up again (in private) than to stub out. I would add that ill-judged attempts to publicly shame pregnant women will in my view simply make people less likely to admit to smoking ? even to their midwife or doctor. Is that helpful to the foetus?? There are so many reasons why this woman may have been ?brazenly? smoking. But there seems only one reason why you turned into an interfering ... You think you are better than her, and better-placed to ?care? about her child. To me, raising my children (by example) to be thoughtful, empathetic and tolerant is a hell of a lot more important than encouraging them to judge and criticise strangers. Perhaps you are outside the metaphorical glasshouse, and you can confirm that before you threw these verbal stones in the street, you consumed no unnecessary calories during pregnancy, you ensured you had no stress, sudden shocks or emotional lows that could affect hormone levels in your womb, that you?ve never left your small baby to cry even for a moment lest it raise their cortisol, that you had a rear facing buggy and you held them for several hours a day and you never touched a drop of alcohol and you never inhaled traffic fumes on Lordship Lane ? If so, congratulations, now you just need to make sure you?re still having fun and not being neurotic. Frankly I don?t know how anyone has any time to worry about other people?s children when they have their own. I hope that you were genuinely motivated by some kind of concern for the woman, as well as *her* foetus, and you honestly thought you could help nudge her to give up, and that you were just utterly misguided. But your comments on here, to me, reinforce the suspicion that you have a) a lack of desire or ability to see this from the other woman?s perspective; and b) a shaky understanding of science and medical advice; and c) an unwillingness to truly engage with anyone who disagrees with you ? instead preferring to ?allege? people have PMd you from fear of ?bullying?. YOU are the bully, and had I seen you speak to this woman, I'd have suggested you think about the example you are setting to YOUR children and leave everyone else?s *unborn* children alone.

Based on what? the steady decline of western society post-1950?

SMP and MA are exactly the same amount.