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I see it fairly often, have noticed it more being out with a buggy recently, it's such a pain! I remember walking near ED station with my dad when I was younger, he asked two teens (definitely old enough to know better) to stop cycling on the pavement and one of them ended up assaulting him, was awful.

haha you're all very welcome and I wish more (childless) people recognized the sheer strenuousness of the 'job'!

I do Belle, PM me if you like. But please don't think that the point of my OP was to slyly get more contacts!!

Aw, thank you and good on you both, Mums!

Ok so despite having a fair amount of childcare experience already (babysitting, the odd bit of childminding and classroom teaching), this week was the first week I've done full days sole charge with two little girls (nearly 3 and nearly 6). They were lovely and I have really, really enjoyed it, but oh my goodness I am exhausted. We did a lot of trips, venturing as far as the science museum! and navigated public transport with pram and all; everything ran smoothly but nonetheless, having to keep track of girls/scooters/buggys whilst keeping them fed/watered/happy......people do noooot appreciate just how DIFFICULT and exhausting (yet, of course, also very rewarding) this can be. Especially the incredibly unsympathetic bus drivers I've had to deal with - what is with them?? Not that I didn't already, but this week has made me respect you mothers so much, and given me the smallest hint of what looking after children full-time must be like. Wow. I hope this doesn't sound at all patronising, I'm genuinely just quite in awe. Good on you mothers, seriously.

swissjoel Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > An all-night gabba or drum n base club. is that different to a drum and bass club?

yes, and here is a list of the staff of the 'MEAB', most of whom have no background in Montessori, notably the names at the top on the list. How can an accreditation board be run by people that are not Montessori trained? http://www.montessori.org.uk/about_the_organisation/meet_the_team

check for montessori accredited schools at http://www.montessorieducationuk.org/

Last year I went over the handlebars going down a hill (collided with the side of a car then braked hard) and smashed my face up pretty badly, four front teeth went through my top lip, badly fractured the bone above my teeth, skin came off lower half of face & nose. Obviously very traumatic but had I not been wearing a helmet I would have definitely broken my nose and suffered head injuries, as I took the full force of the fall on my face but the helmet jutted out enough to protect my nose and forehead...needless to say I'm an advocate.

my bad, youngsta is more of a dj than a producer, minimal mix

Ah thanks titch! Oh yeah kindered, Burial is sublime! If you like that I'd suggest checking out XXYYXX, Phaeleh, Four tet, arkist on soundcloud for more of that kind of mellow bass.

@Otta- fair enough. My manic raver friends would show you what dubstep dancing is (more 'skanking' or moshing really). I'd say the minimal stuff is good for brooding/chilling but that's just me. @*Bob* I'm not sure if I agree with you on the link between the 'overly complex' and the idea of cereberal 'musos' tackling a genre that they don't actually like, precisely because of its 'impenetrable' qualities. I don't think such an audience actually exists, or if it does, that it exists more prominently for Dubstep than it does for any other 'underground' EDM genre. Especially not for the kind of shitty dubstep that we are talking about. I think the kind of young people attracted to Skrillex and co (of whom I know a fair few) genuinely love the extreme-ness of it, rather than wearing it as a badge of honour as you suggested.

Well I am listening to it now in my college library...I have heard it in clubs but nowhere near as much as I listen to it on my own. I distinctly remember listening to it for the first time on my ipod...I happened to be in the music faculty library. Why do you ask, and why does it matter? (I don't mean that in a defensive/confrontational way, I'm just intrigued by the question)

*Bob* - what do you mean when you say there's a "muso" element to dubstep? Yes it's a pity that what people think of as dubstep and the sounds it actually encompasses are two very different things. When I say I like dubstep people give me a look and say 'I hate Skrillex,' and it's like, yeah, so do I... I mean I like THIS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc_YP_H3ZEc

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's not so much the speed of it, or the sound of > it, or whether it's good or bad If it's not about any of these...erm what's left to talk about? (a pointless > argument, as mentioned already) I find the sound > interesting, from a technical point of view. It's > like a giant demo-song of all the very latest > virtual synths. So it is about the sound then? > I'm just not convinced people (not all, but a lot) > actually enjoy it as much as they claim to enjoy > it, or want to enjoy it. Why do you think that people would claim to enjoy it without actually enjoying it? What's not to enjoy? Also, just because people look serious when they listen to it, doesn't mean they don't enjoy it! It's not really a 'sing along' genre is it. And it's intense/dark (the stuff I listen to anyway, J:kenzo, Youngsta, Icicle, J Sparrow, Distance) not the kind of stuff that puts a smile on your face. Doesn't mean you're not appreciating it. > Personally I think it has more in common with prog > rock than most other EDM types. It depends what kind of dubstep you listen to, as exemplified in the examples I gave in my previous post. And if you look in to the origins of the genre, listen to early works of Magnetic Man, Skream/Benga, Hatcha (all involved with the Croydon Big Apple scene in the early-mid 00s) you can hear that the genre actually owed a lot to UK garage, grime, even dancehall and reggae. True that a more recent mutation of the genre has been the more overt, mid-range, 'in your face' tracks by artists (I use that term loosely) such as Skrillex, Nero, Excision who clearly take a lot of inspiration from death metal/prog rock.

This is dubstep but so it this personally I like the former but detest the latter What sets it apart from other EDM genres just comes down to tempo really oh and often heavy sub-bass (the 'drop') although this isn't too noticeable unless you are in possession of unusually good speakers

Me n my sis were 12 not so long ago, we read things like The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer Any books by Eva Ibbotson (Journey to the River Sea especially) The Saga of Darren Shan (gory stuff though)

I too am a Montessori teacher. To add to Ju*Ni's post, ME(UK) http://www.montessorieducationuk.org was set up in 1993 as an umbrella association to support Montessorians from different training colleges. I do not know much about MSA, as my school is accredited by ME(UK), but I agree with Ju*Ni's points above, and although I trained with the AMI (Association Montessori Internationale, www.montessori-ami.org/ but have worked with colleagues from different training colleges. As Ju*Ni says, many 'Montessorians' are working to unite the movement. From a parent's perspective, I would encourage you to read up on the main points of the Montessori principles so that you can make an informed decision when visiting a Montessori school. The Montessori Society has a useful website with interesting articles for parents. http://www.montessorisociety.org.uk/ Good luck with your search!

Looking at our garden today it looks like somebody might have been trying to break into our house, several tools from outside have been moved about and lids (with bird food in...sorry burglars) taken off boxes, clematis all torn off the side of the fence, pots moved (to clear access to windows). I know it doesn't sound like much but I happened to come home at 4.30 am and went in to the kitchen, it may be that I frightened them off when I switched the lights on. Ivanhoe is a target for burglars anyway as it backs on to the railway, and a while back there was a really big bout of burglaries on our road, our house being one of the ones targeted. Seems like a no-brainer to be vigilant at all times, but I know our household gets sloppy with it sometimes...forgetting to take all laptops, ipods etc out of the kitchen or forgetting to screw the windows down in particular. Be extra careful! Also, irritatingly the back wheel of my bike was stolen from my bike which was locked up in my front garden. My own fault entirely - living in Oxford I get out of the habit of double locking my bike so when I'm back in London I forget to. F***ING BURGLARS!!

Thanks El Pibe... I'll have to try it some time, can imagine it would feel good! Pounding repetitive beats still exist yaknow! This was theee hype track of 2011,huge in the bass/grime scene

El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > eyes like saucers, jumpers for goalposts, vicks > vapo-rub, dancing to the sound system in the > car-park, hospitalised with pneumonia. > Aaaah, the folly of youth. > Why vicks vapo-rub?

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Please don't get me wrong. I think its great that > the Peckham Rye ward SNT have these UV marker pens > and are distributing them. I think its a shame > they don't have the best product on the market and > that they can't give that best product out for > free. I'm chuffed to bits in East Dulwich we can. This post was meant to be informing of a robbery outside your constituency and nothing you've written has been helpful in the slightest to inhabitants of Ivanhoe road, which has had 8 robberies in the past month, making it a 'priority area' according to the police. If you want to wax lyrical about how great anti burglary provisions of ED are, can you do it on another post please.

DJKillaQueen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think it's a > disgrace that you use a thread about a burglary to > play party politics. Agreed

Just heard that another neighbour, about 10 doors down was also burgaled last night. Loz: yes we did report the burglary. They looked for prints but found none. Jeremy: yes our house does back on to the railway line. Kylie: we are pretty much opposite Hoopers.

got in through the kitchen window which they forced open, breaking the lock. Took two laptops, two phones, an ipod and two bottles of rum from the kitchen. Purse from the living room. And the back door keys, so now we can't get out to the garden to see if they've taken any tools. Such a bloody pain. This is at least the third or fourth burglary on Ivanhoe in the past few weeks, so be extra vigilant people.