womanofdulwich

i do think our parents were much stricter with us than we are with our children. so many times i was sent to bed with no food for misbehaving and not allowed back downstairs. lots of slaps and now this kind of behaviour is not acceptable. We tend to treat our children more as eauals and this is hard for our parents to understand. But it will get better. Promise/

just go and get your tunnocks logs and teacakes and all will be fine.

but we still love you.- apart form the ones in brockwell park every sunny morning and evening...esp around the shelter ( pinches nose)once the sun has been on it.

i think children can have a starter session on a friday night?

what a lovely idea about the seeds.

you would both need solicitors, its one one those crazy things where the costs of doing it can be more than the value of it. There was a thread on this a while back, you could try searching for it somewhere here.

I thought this was strongly discouraged at schools, as it embarrasses those parents that cannot afford it.

I think the idea is that they are young people and if all your food and bills are included, the ?60 is your "fun/leisure money". i provided all my aupairs with memebership of jags and a bicycle. They should go to english lessons which may be 5 hours plus a week, and the rest of the time I have hellped them get little extra jobs, often looking after friends yourger children/ babysitting or sometiems cleaning where they might earn ?8-?10 an hour, and they might earn ?50 plus a week. But really thery are here to be part of your family, and if for example, we all went to the coast for the day the au pair is offered the cahnce to come too where we but there food/ ice creams etc The english lessons can vary between free to a lot more- depending how much they want. However very hard to find lessons in the summer holidays. Some people do not treat their au pairs like this. Many an au pair has been sat at my kitchen table crying about the family she works for.

ill walk past tomorrow then Falklands, just to see how the other half live ;-)

Bob Crowe keeps calling stikes because he and his mates hate working,

every week Falklands? how come?

ditto being collected and returned- i quite like it to be collected early one evening and returned the next. i would be interested.

My friend bought a new house In Church Langley about 15 years ago on a little estate. She tried to show me the wonderful cycle ways etc and green space, but she and I knew it was a little bit like Oilworker suggested- London people trying to escape to an English new village. It had no heart, and as I often find, everyone was the same and she could not hack it. It may have matured in the past 15 years though! I cant help thinking there would be little for teenagers to do there- and lots of mischief in the green spaces and underpasses.I would love someone to say differently though.

thats really good about rigby and peller bluewater, i was scared off by the sales assistants- they looked so young-will try again.

thanks Loz, i wonder if it is all the FPTP's that keep going on about how difficult it is. It would be better to fine those that do not vote- like Australia!

this is quite a common problem,and may change again anyway. i think john lewis is good if you make an appointment and explain your dilemma.your tightness of your bra strap can affect how you "fit in". the original rigby and peller in knightsbridge used to be really good too, but now there are a lot of branches and they seem to be staffed by young women, who I frnakly doubt have enough experience. good luck.

were the majoral elections AV or single transferable vote? whatever they were i liked them and they were easy to understand.

may be you can use a neutral shoe polish?

do you mean the Walworth rdbranch Peckham rose, or am I missing out?

i think you are a saint for 8 years putting up with the man without making him have an operation- whatever it is that Mr Millband is having done etc.Cant you go and see a dr? I am sure I read that he snores and the operation he is having is often done on the national health.I personally find it really hard to sleep in a bed by myself, so will put up with a lot and both of us usually respond long enough to a " stop snoring" loud whisper in the ear for the other one to get to sleep.i know if i have more than a tiny amount of alcohol I sometimes snore terribly and my partner to a lesser extent. can you work out why he did not snore for 2 weeks? good luck x

i think they still have their preferred places for manouevres, so they will stick to similar roads, its just the bit where they have to follow directions which will be hard. You could top up with a few lessons with a local driving instructor.

H and M? Topshop?

i think you can down load all the test routes somehow, we did this for west wickham, but there were at least 20 of them!! apart from that usual advice for a girl is if you have nice legs where a short skirt etc etc.;-)

they have known where he was for ages,probably at least a year, but did not go and get him.

spare room is never a good idea in the long term. it would have to be a desperate measure surely, ear plugs much better. imo.