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Surrey docks city farm

Polly D Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks both - is ham okay at this age? Possibly a bit salty but see no reason why not in moderation

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hummous egg mayo ham cooled omelette or frittata quorn slices Other finger food: Frittata Courgette fritters mini sausages cheese sticks hummous and breadsticks/crudites pizza fingers

hummous egg mayo ham cooled omelette or frittata quorn slices Other finger food: Frittata Courgette fritters mini sausages cheese sticks hummous and breadsticks/crudites pizza fingers

BARA Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Usually when you book a venue you should complete > a booking form - this shows if you have just paid > a deposit, which will then give you a date to pay > balance before the event. Form should be signed > and dated by whoever took your booking - a copy to > be retained by them plus your copy. In the event > of a double book - the person who booked first and > has paper evidence to prove it - should get the > booking. They don't seem to have any paperwork on the go at all!!

Son no 1 still has milk before bed, in one of these to prevent spillage! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thermos-Beaker-Asstd-Orange-Blackcurrant/dp/B0001MQ7ZY

Harris or JAGS bouncy castle Peckham soft play Nature centre place in peckham Hire a hall and entertainer Have a makeover party at your own house and do nail varnish, hair braids etc? Make your own pizza at pizza hut?

sparkle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > thanks snowboarder- we'll be back! Don't suppose > they've decided to open it any morning too? I live > in hope... Crystal Palace one o'c club is

Useful free meal planners: http://l.nmimg.net/images/monthly_meal_planner.pdf http://l.nmimg.net/images/familymealplanner.pdf

The manager called today to apologise... I didn't see your post NL so didn't ask him about how he planned to sort it out.. I will call him back!

Hisar, Turkish...

Sorry, early Feb I meant... duhh. though usually I book something before Xmas because January is leaving it a bit late.. you do need to allow at least 6 weeks!!

The Nappy Lady Wrote: > > I would ask about being put in the classroom > across from gym fire e it for the food bit as > otherwise don't see how you will have time to set > up or clear up afterwards. WEll, it's their problem really. Let's see what the manager says. They just seem really unprofessional, even now they just took my cash and gave me a receipt, there was no form or anything to fill in.

Grr. I have smoke coming out of my ears. Phoned Harris Sports Centre 10 days ago to book a party for early Dec. Went in with my cheque to pay earlier this week and found that the 3-5pm slot we had booked, "noone had written it in the diary" and so we had to rebook (at 1-3pm, overlapping baby nap time!) I also couldn't pay by cheque it turned out, but I said I would be in today with cash and made the receptionist promise they wouldn't give away this second booking too. Well guess what.. they did! When she was writing in their diary, she'd apparently just put my phone no and name, she hadn't actually included that we had booked a party! It was almost a disaster, but today's receptionist, thank goodness, decided that as there no other free slots over the whole weekend, she would create a 2-4 slot just for us (which will work just about as the party is 1h with the bouncy castle and one in the party room) I left a written complaint for the manager, I wonder what their explanation will be? I would think twice before trying to book a party there again and I'm still a bit nervous about what we'll find when we turn up on the day.

katyc Wrote: We also have an annual membership > which is proving to be excellent value in the > winter Yes, we have that. ?160 pa... previously it was costing us almost ?30 per visit!

largeginandtonic Wrote:> My 4.5 year old was having a banana milkshake > yesterday and announced to the whole cafe that if > I ate a banana then shook myself about a bit, my 9 > month old would get 'banana boobie shake'. That > got some looks too. I just stare back. rofl

Read Baby led weaning by Gill Rapley, stop trying to fed her, put stuff on her tray for her to play with/try and do your best not to hover and worry. A baby won't starve themselves. xx

I do 36h spread across 2 long days in work, 1 day at home with childcare in place and a few hours on top winging it! It works because I do at least an hour a day checking my mail etc.

nunheadmum Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Does anyone know if the schools (or whoever > allocates the places - not sure if it's the school > or the council) actually receive info about what > position you put the school down as i.e. whether > they're your first or fourth choice? It would > seem to make sense if they did but I thought I'd > heard somewhere that they didn't - but I've also > heard inferences of the opposite. > The LA will have allocations made by computer, based on your list of choices. Not sure about church schools.

It's something like #10+. Maybe even #15. Main problem is you only get free spaces for a couple of adults included.

Ann Sinnott said: "Great pity, and a great disappointment, Emma, that you based your piece on interviews and not on a reading of the book (BOC). That would be fine, even though superficial, if you hadn't misquoted me. Why would I mention Greenland, as being distinct from the Inuit, when some Inuits, the Kalaait, live in Greenland? I said that children come into the world with biological imperatives intact ? quite different, in words and in meaning, from: children aren't cultural creatures like us (and in quotes, no less!). How could they not be? I further said that we can learn from young children, if are willing; that their biological intactness, when not forcefully disrupted, can tell us something about ourselves, about our culture. The 16yr old. I told you that I regarded him as damaged by the peculiar circumstances in which he grew up: with a group of women who regarded men as inferior, with breastfeeding (bfdg) used as a means to reinforce that. Hardly an example of healthy bfdg! I also cited historical instances of adolescent bfdg (King William Island and ancient Japan). In relation to this, you wanted me to speculate about my own daughter. Hypothetical and fraudulent counterfactual history, I resisted but eventually said that, IF she was demonstrably emotionally healthy (happy, outgoing, self-confident, relating to others well - the criteria I used when she was four, five, six), yet still wanted to breastfeed (bfd), I believed I would have continued. I also said I was relieved the situation never arose! You immediately refer, in the next paragraph, to your question re older children being confused by the physical intimacy of bfdg, suggesting to the reader that there was continuance, when in reality there was not. We were speaking of young school age children. To them, bfdg is an ordinary source of sustenance/medicine/comfort, nothing more. Bfdg is physically intimate, but it is not sexually intimate. As you know (but perhaps you didn't read!), in BOC I speak about the sexualisation of breasts and how that influences the way bfdg is viewed and reacted to. Body hugging can be as physically intimate as bfdg, but you seemed unable to grasp that. Isn't that because you view bfdg through a cultural prism in which breasts are seen as primarily for sexual 'play', rather than for the feeding of infants? In Mongolia, where breasts are not regarded sexually, bfdg women (linking again to bfdg adolescents) routinely let family members, including adults, drink from their breasts. It is not, and is not experienced as, a sexual act. I did not say I decided to bfd long-term when my daughter was 6mths old. I said it was a child-led process spread over many years ? an experience echoed by many of the 2,000 plus mothers who took part in the surveys for BOC; echoed, too, by Karleen Gribble's research (also quoted in BOC). Nor did you mention that, in those 3 golden years, I also worked as a freelance journalist and was thus able to work variable hours. Neither did I say of my daughter's eating solids, 'it comes and goes at that stage'. I said that throughout her first 3 years, her interest varied, though bfdg did not (echoed by hundreds of mothers). Pity you didn't mention that at 8mths she was eating handfuls of spinach and broccoli! All children's need for solids varies ? but bfdg mothers do not worry! In BOC, I said I was surprised by 77 women who experienced variable degrees of sensation, described by the majority as sensual, rather than sexual (except 18), and in all cases described as distinct from sexual activity with a partner. I also said I was interested in the questions women raised as to the root of the phenomenon: was it part of an evolutionary reward system (as argued by sociobiologist Blaffer Hrdy ? also mentioned by me), or linked to the sexualisation of breasts. I did not advance the theory as my own. Single by choice before motherhood, as well as after, my breasts, unlike for the majority of women, did not function in a dual role. It's an interesting area, and a pity you did not do it justice. Did not raise, for instance, the strong reactions some men experience when having to share their partner's breasts and the jealousy that can arise; did not speak of the feelings of exclusion and anger that some men experience; did not mention my reference to John Travis's work and his term, 'unbonded', for men inadequately mothered, including not being bfd, and how it affects relations with women and fatherhood. You say the emotional advantages of sustained bfdg are hard to measure. On the contrary! Unlike physical health (needs long duration of time, control group, etc) psychosocial adjustment is easily measured, in adults or children (in Appendix 3/BOC, the results of such a test, on a 4yr.8mth old, who emerged with flying colours, is reproduced). In BOC, I call, with confidence, upon psychologists to test the psychosocial adjustment and attachment status of long-term bfd children! "

Though the journalism is very shoddy and as Ann Sinnott says in the comments, a lot of what is written by the journalist isn't accurate!! http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jan/09/breastfeeding-older-children You do need to read the comments, don't assume that what the journalist has written is an accurate representation of what is in the book (which she hasn't read!) or even of the interview with Ann Sinnott.

I must be completely exhibitionist as all I have ever done is just lifted my top and popped the baby on. Is a bit harder to be discreet with a wriggly toddler (and I really try hard NOT to feed both twins at once in public, that does get eyes popping (esp as they are most definitely at the "walking up and asking for it stage" Which reminds me, did anyone see the article in the Guardian last w/e? I will start a new thread!)

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