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I cannot recommend my electrician enough - polite, punctual, reasonable and highly qualified. Please do not hesitate to contact Arsen on 07539 344042 for any electrical needs. Thank you Arsen for all your help !

Does anyone know why there are loads of police outside Sainsbury local on lordship lane right now?

I would like to highly recommend Robert and Dennys furniture removers company. They are based in Peckham and I have used them over the past 20 years for all my moves in the area for my house moves. Last week they moved my elderly parents to Herne Hill - they were exceptional. Above and beyond the expected service of packing - moving - unpacking. They were efficient, respectful, kind, patient and worked like trojans! Please please do not hesitate to use them Robert and Dennys 0207 6355332

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Hi I can help you with this query if you need help still. Pls private message me if you are interested Jo

Watch the film starter for 10, West Dulwich even gets a mention !

hi i'm a pro skateboarder and i can give you advice. What you need for your 7 year old is a 7.75 deck Almost board, thunder trucks, spitfire F1 wheels and Reds bearings. You can also look at skatehut.com and you can browse the site. Hope this is useful.

Wow that is so dench

That art is so cool

Dude street art is so cool. They should keep it there for ever. Street art rules!!!!!!!!!!

Duck egg cafe Sunday roast.....yum. Rib of beef today for me !

The duck egg is opening on north cross rd in about 3 weeks. It is where grace and favour used to be. It is a cafe , they have another branch in Brixton that just won breakfast of the year 2012 in time out. The owner has a stalk outside in Saturday's until the shop is ready. I went yesterday...it is quality, down to eaRth tasty food...lots of new ideas coming with the opening, including a kids cookery club...watch this space

My advice would be forget the pool and get to hospital in case there is an emergency in the birth. Have a look at the percent of births in uk that end up in emergency c section or intervention.

I love Jenson? Artyon?

Yes....but i know whst is replacing it. Just wait and see. It wont let you down..........

What a trip down memory lane. Lived here since 1972, so seen it change so much. What about dulwich village ...do you fancy doing the shops there. Rememnbr the dulwich steak house where cafe rouge is? The toy shop where the post office is? The tuck shop was the romeo jones ? Interiors fancis jevons was the groom room. There was a travel agent at pizza express and an antique shop too i think? Any other memories?

We have dealt with Pickwicks since they opened 5 years ago. They have bought and sold 2 houses for us in East Dulwich and Dulwich Village. They are the first agents we have worked with that offer genuine and honest advice. Along with this they sponsor my Son and Daughters School fete every year and are the first to offer support to the local community. If anyone wants to discuss with me further please feel free to PM me. I really cannot rec'd these guys highly enough. Jo

wow i really seen to be on the only one on this discussion that is really anti- routine GF and as a result i am pissing off lots of people. i am very thick skinned so carry on - i feel zero guilt which is why at no point am i apologising for my point of view. My advice to new mothers is this. Number 1 - Do not take advice from a woman who has not ever had children. Go on give it a go - you will be very happy - - for at least six months you have to go with the flow - i never followed any routine of sleeping or feeding and all my kids eventually found there way - and never cried threw it. My babies never go to their own room until at least a year - that is in my opinion safe and correct. That did not mean i had to creep around and not watch TV or listen to music in my room as my baby never had to have a quiet blacked out room to sleep. I never ever woke a sleeping baby- how annoyed are you when you hear the alarm or when you get woken up suddenly or when you are dog tired but someone is keeping you awake - why should that be any different for a baby. Sometimes my baby at six weeks feel asleep at 11 am - he was still asleep at 6pm - he was growing and needed the rest. So what if i had to stay up that night till 10pm , he just watched TV with me. Also every child is different - How can a boy weighing in at 11Lbs have the same needs as a little girl weighing in a five Lbs - My first boy was on solids at 7 weeks ( me and my brothers all on solids by two months - and not a thing wrong with us) - he was already the size of a 5 month old baby. Even today he is twice the size of some of his peers at school - my point is - you are the mother - trust your instinct - if your baby is crying there is a reason - they are either tired , hungry , or simply want a cuddle- how can a book written for babies cover all different sizes and types. All babies are different and have their own ways you cant expect the same routine to suit all. As for after 6 months - the baby starts to find their way and settle into a bedtime sleep anyway - there is no need to force a routine from 6 weeks. the sleeping 12 hours a night is a mystery to me - i am interested to know if anyone has achieved this without letting the baby crying at some point - and not picking them up to settle them. None of my babies have been left the cry at any point in the night - they have all been picked up within less than a minute to be settled and come into my bed - by 3 years they all sleep anyway. I know for a fact GF does not agree with that -

This is our holiday routine - this one is especially for helena handbasket - we go on holiday (always with extended family as a norm - min 10 of us including children of all ages ranging 3months to 16 years) all wake up at half nine including new born and go for a nice breakfast in the hotel - after lunch we all go sleep at 2pm until about 5pm - too hot to be out in boiling sun half the time) . All europeans go back to beach at five after sieata for a couple of hours, then we all go out in the evening and eat about eight and all the kids sleep by midnight. i understand very well this topic as i have five children and i would never subscribe up to a women who has never had children and raised dogs for a living telling me how to raise my baby. I have looked at her regime and it begs believe that so many mothers would turn to this routine before asking their family/mothers for advice. Even with my first child if he fell asleep at ten he was never woken for a feed or kept awake for the sake of him being tired later to sleep at seven. i know the routine very well - as i already said loads of my friends followed it - my family (all medical) said "never wake a sleeping baby" - i have always gone back to work after children within 12 months and so even as a working parent i never followed the feeding times - the baby dictated what happened, not me, or my husband, or the brothers or sisters

i would like to ask some questions - if you plan to follow GF for your first child i assume that this pattern will follow for subsequent children. What do you do with the second/third/forth child if you are all on holiday, or out for a evening with other kids and you all go out and eat dinner at eight/nine pm? What do you do with the 7pm bedtime for the new born. When your children grow up you realise that the evening is for everyone - not just the new mum. or do you leave the newborn with a baby sitter? I am seriously keen to know what happens in that situation. Also please look around other countries - only UK and a very british culture has the concept of babies in bed at 7pmish. Generally in european countries the babies are awake in the evening with the rest of the family, similar in asian countries. Why is there such a need to have the baby asleep early evening to miss out on the rest of the family. I may sound harsh and sometimes i do offend - but thats my way. I am a very chilled out person and even if i do not agree with what you do with your babies it does not mean i will not like you or judge you. Do not be so sensitive and just stand your ground and defend your actions - i probably wont agree with them anyway. I am looking on to motherhood over 8 years and i see a wave of middle class women bowing to this GF book - always question the status quo and do not attempt to tell me that GF is not some "New Labour" middle class syndrome - like book clubs. Please dont get me on them jojobaby x

this is from me now, not my mum: Why are you all reading books? you can all say what you want - i have so many close who have all used GF ( and i have slatted the lot of them) - they all know my feeling and i have called them a disgrace. And my friends admit they did it for themselves , not the baby. And they all respect me for my feelings cos i say it as it is, without the nice trimmings. do not tell me that a baby sleep 12 hours straight without any time waking up and crying. Go to the lancet or the bmj if that is the case you are a rare rare case. My whole family and extended family is medical and if they saw me following the GF book they would have killed me. I have witnessed several 6 week old babies crying because they are hungry and their mum has said GF says i have to wait 4 hours - proof is in the pudding.