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Ellie at Myla & Davis did my hair this week - excellent highlights and cut, and I am extremely fussy!

Another vote for Hollie - she is completely fabulous.

Thanks Dan, you sound ideal! Will have a chat with my friend and be in touch soon.

Aloha! My friend and I would love to learn how to play the ukulele... I know there's a brilliant ukulele orchestra in Dulwich so I wondered if anyone would be willing to share their skills one evening a week? We'd pay of course! Please let me know, thank you.

Oh no! Who solved your problem? Would you recommend them?

I think we need a forensic surveyor - or someone with a clever gadget or expertise who can tell us exactly where the leak in our house is coming from. We've spent thousands after being told it's the brick walls, then the roof - and still the water appears. Sigh. Any advice much appreciated please. Thank you.

Thanks so much everyone. Lovely to have so many tips and a bit of reassurance too!

Thank you! Yes, I love the idea of BLW and bought the book a while ago. So far nothing in any way lumpy is going down - just fruit pur?e and yogurt. She's always refused a bottle but loves the boob and thinks drinking water from a sippy cup is just hilarious.

I'm hoping someone has good advice here - or has at least been through something similar and can sympathise! My seven-month daughter is perfect in every way (of course!) apart from the fact she will not eat anything other than fruity Ella's Kitchen pouches. I diligently created a fridge-full of breast milk-enriched vegetable purees before we started solids but she wasn't keen at all. The Ella's fruity pouches have been a hit but I'd love her to try some vegetable flavoured ones, or better still, an actual piece of fruit or a real vegetable. Anything that isn't yogurt-smooth gets rejected and she bursts into tears. She normally such a cheerful little lady - it's unlike her to have a meltdown. Help!

We're looking for someone to permanently remove a hedge in our garden and lop the top off an overhanging apple tree. The tree's in a neighbour's garden but they're happy for us to do it. Any recommendations gratefully received please.

We recently had a photoshoot with the lovely Joanna Szymkiewicz from Joasis Photography and I wanted to recommend her wonderful work on here. I hate having my photo taken but Jo made it a pleasure, setting everything up at our home and being perfectly patient when our baby needed to feed or snooze. Her pricing is extremely competitive, we've got a DVD of dozens of images to treasure, plus she's local - even better! You can contact Jo on [email protected].

Hi Spring mummies-to-be! Our spring baby arrived on Wednesday and, while it ended up going really well and with a perfect little girl at the end, we didn't have the water birth at home that we had planned... As a result I've got a birthing pool (bought second hand), plus an unused liner, two brand new hoses (15m and 10m), hose adapter, pump to inflate and pump to empty the pool all up for sale. It's the Birthpool in a Box Eco Mini pool. PM me if you'd like to make me an offer. I bought the pool on here for ?60 a few weeks ago - the new hoses and liner were about another ?30/40.

ADT are in Honor Oak Park today. Two young guys just knocked on the door and one said "We're not selling anything". When I asked "Not even burglar alarms?" he just laughed and they walked off.

I changed to the dentist at The Gardens last year too. Much better!

I'm very biased but I think you come and check out lovely Honor Oak Park! It's only a mile from Lordship Lane, loads of families and I bet your products would go down a storm here. Our little parade of shops includes a deli, an organic beauty salon, a little boutique with homeware, clothes and jewellery, a Sainsbury's Local, a tapas bar and a new sourdough gourmet pizza place alongside the usual newsagents, chippy etc. I'm sure there are a few vacant units at the moment. Might be worth a look.

Giulio Scala is BRILLIANT although very in-demand! If you search for him on here you'll find loads of glowing reviews.

My husband and I (both a little sceptical at first) found Hollie's four-week hypnobirthing course a revelation. I've gone from feeling pretty terrified about giving birth to really looking forward to the big day. For that alone it was worth every penny. Thanks Hollie!

Yet another recommendation for Alan. Lovely guy, and he managed to save the day yesterday when something went very wrong with our front door lock and I was trapped in the house. Definitely worth saving his number in your phone just in case!

Thanks easty_beasty. We've already had the roof checked out and it's fine. Our loft is converted and the water's coming in through the walls at a lower level, around ceiling height on the first floor.

Hi there, the number I've got for David is 07943 804075.

Hello all, just a quick update for those of you suffering from similar wet patches (sounds SO wrong)... David Duggan came out to see us on Saturday morning and was extremely helpful. It looks like our side wall is completely soaked and has absorbed a lot of rain water in the past couple of weeks. It seems the wrong type of mortar might have been used between the bricks and that's to blame for the water soaking through to our inside walls. We're just waiting to hear back from David with more advice and cost estimates, but it sounds like the wall might need spraying with some kind of protective coating or - worst case scenario - extensive (and expensive) repointing.

Hi Jay_P, thanks for chipping in. Your tuppenceworth is much appreciated! Please keep me (us) posted with your progress and good luck with it all.

Hi Jjjjj, we've got David Duggan coming over tomorrow morning to take a look. He's got loads of recommendations on here so I'm hoping he can come up with a plan to solve the problem. Might be worth you giving him a call too? Good luck with it all!

If you'd venture to Honor Oak Park, Babur is a local gem. It's recently been named London's best Indian restaurant by Zagat.

Thanks Miacis, we don't seem to have guttering along the wall where the problem has occurred. It's all a bit of a mystery at the moment!