womanofdulwich

if you are going to drive to lessons, there is always the chance you baby will fall asleep on the way home.

i am happy to vent my thoughts at having a 10% pay cut in the past 2 years and a 25% cut in pension contributions from my employer and the threat of redundancy pay at the statutory rate. bitter ?me??

i was there last week...it was open with a queue...

I live in a busy house so always people around so not an issue, but if I lived by myself I might feel differently- especially if I had had a bad experience.

I would like to chip in and say that there are a generation ( at least) of men that do not clean. I have 2 sons and they were issued with dustpans and brush toy sets at an early age, and they used to clean/ tidy with me. From school/ nursery age they can spray the cleaning stuff (like a gun- how handy) and i used to polish/ rub. I just think you are educating them. I would hate them to leave home thinking these jobs are done by someone else. Any future wives/ girlfriends would take a dim view. Nothing to do with sahm / not- we are the parents and we need to educate our children in life skills as well as reading. if they have to clean up sometimes, maybe they would not be so messy in the first place. I have seen too many arrogant teenagers- boys and girls who leave their mums especially to work around them.

lombok? thats thai though- but in Herne Hill.

If you live here you just have to be street wise, i try and take a nectar card and visa card to sainsburys- if fact when i go out i try and stick stuff in my front pocket instead- its really bad for your back/ shoulder to carry all that stuff and a bag everywhere.But hten maybe the ospeopath is robbing me;-)

Now that the western side of the congestion gone the route down park lane is much better. I sometimes drive back from swiss cottage leaving there at 5pm and back in Dulwich usually in an hour ( once it took 40 mins). But if the Obamas are in town/ Royal Garden Party/flooding on the embankment it has taken 2 hours.

This is how I look today. What does everyone else look like?

The only phrase I remember my grandad regularly used was "when its brown its done, when its black its bxggered"- to be said with a Derbyshire accent.Usually when cooking.

I dont think they need tv's-they need decent libraries and a caring adult ( hopefully the same one most of the time) at home out of school hours. Sorry thats not very pc, but im my limited expereince children have a tv to keep them quiet/out of adults way, but not a single book in the house.

i thought most schools have a pta second hand clothes cupboard? i have always given my outgrown stuff to them- and acquired sometimes too.

i think the deadline is the give away- i dont think they ever expected you to say yes.

aha! Thanks for POI. I wondered why Jay Rayner was on the train already when i got on at Farringdon.

does anyone remember pans people's dance routine to Lonely Boy? awesome.

i think crystal palace farm is well gone- now a horticutural college. there is a great maze there. brockwell park 1 o'clock club??

in my experience, some people have to have another half, always. They line up the next one, to try and make sure there are right, before dumping the current one. One of my best freinds did this with the 4 men she married/ lived with. Every single time she met the other one, decided if he was better than the current model, and then dumped the old one. Some people aren't so dependent on having to have another half. My brother is the former- when he told me he was moving out to " have some time to himself" I said" so who is she?" he was pretty shocked ( It was the next door neighbour). Just depends.

surely all those Guardian journalists that get off the train at Farringdon must big this up???

if you ever watch location location it is a good way to see how people can offer. if you are in a good position - chain free, mortgage available, then yes try 10% off. but i know a house very close to me which is on at 20% more than its worth, so really you have to do your research. Some vendors are greedy and will fly a kite to begin with to see if they get an uninformed purchaser. at the end of the day ,if you are applying for a mortgage then the valuer will probabaly pick up if its overpriced. but scrutanise the land registry sale prices- mouseprices web site etc. Good luck.

its called Streatham and Marlborough cricket club

i saw a lovelyhouse where the walls were white and then there were lots of picture frames painted on the walls so the little girl and friends could all put paintings in the "frames", but she told me they had stuck pictures in the frames to begin with.

A jam kettle is a huge pan for making jam in- but might also contain a lot of chocolate and crisps ;)

i would welcome any ones ideas on where to hide food in your house that a teenager will not find. if i buy anything nice they seek it out like heat detecting missiles. even in the shoe cleaning box or the jam kettle. any one with better ideas??

we have have to drink it all undiluted then - to be on the safe side..

i think it is the shortest posiible walking route, but rememeber that proirity goes to siblings and other needy groups. 3 years ago we were too far away at 1.5 km. however I notice children walk past my house every day who fall into the other 2 categories.