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If you love the Farrow and Ball colours but don't want the chalky finish, which is hard to maintain, you can get a colour match from Dulux. We did this at the B&Q on Old Kent Rd, just took in sample of F&B painted on to card and they matched it, we painted over the F&B with it and you can't tell the difference colour wise but the Dulux is more hard wearing.

Hi I went along to this yesterday and it was great! Friendly group of people and some great tunes, without the need to read any music. Was a lovely way of breaking up the day working from home, would recommend. HP

Hello and welcome to ED! I've been in the GG Community Choir for about 2 years and I really enjoy it. I would say that our approach is quite different from Note-Orious, we're quite a bit smaller and I would say probably a bit less formal (that is no criticism of Note-orious!) so it really depends what you are looking for and what suits you. At GG we normally encourage people to come along and try a session before they join up so if I were you I would try both out and see which you prefer! No substitute for just pitching up (no pun intended) and trying it out. Good luck and hope to meet you one Tuesday evening.

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We recently got 2 little guinea pigs (aged 5 months) but are going away on holiday for the first week of the school Easter holidays and need someone to come in, feed them, change water and clean out hutch (they live in an outside hutch) and ideally give them a bit of a cuddle. As it's school hols all the people we might normally ask will also be away. Has anyone used a local pet sitting agency etc who they could recommend please? thanks

Another recommendation for Phil who came to re-hang a door for me this week - he did a great job, turned up when he said he would, stuck to his quote and offered to clear up afterwards. We'll now be asking him to come back and do some other carpentry jobs.

Newton, I've PM'd you

I looked into this once, might be worth contacting local city farms. We didn't pursue it in the end, the donkeys were frankly diva-ish and we couldn't meet all the demands on their riders :-)

There is currently a public consultation open on the proposed new Cycle Superhighways - anyone can respond and make their views known. See the TfL website for further information.

I believe that the East Dulwich Academy of Music and Performing Arts (based at Goose Green primary school) is starting dance classes on a Saturday from September. You can get their contact details from the school. I have heard very good feedback about the music and drama lessons there.

Excitement reaching fever pitch in GG Y4 about the production next week expecially now the lovely people at Just William have put their fab Alice in Wonderland display up in the window :-)

I didn't enagage them. Unfortunately it just happened to be them selling this house. My preference would be not to deal with agents at all but that isn't necessarily an option. I know I shouldn't be surprised really - doesn't stop me thinking it's all wrong and wanting to put other people on notice - from recent experience it seems that there are a lot of properties going to sealed bids at the moment.

I can only comment on my experience - which was of KFH. They may legally be entitled to do this, my point is that you would be reasonably entitled to assume that "best and FINAL offers" means exactly that. Otherwise the process is pointless.

Precisely. You might as well not have the sealed bids process at all if the agent isn't going to honour it.

We are looking to move house. We saw one last weekend we were very interested in and were told by the agents (KFH) that as there was a lot of interest and multiple offers it would go to sealed bids. They sent a letter out setting out the sealed bids process, which required all bids to be submitted by a particular time and date. We put our offer in. We were notified by the agent the next day that it had been accepted. We were then telephoned today by the agent to say that one of the unsuccessful bidders had become "very cross" on learning that he had been unsuccessful and had made a higher offer which the agent was "legally obliged" to put to the seller, and the seller has decided to accept. So, gazumping is apparently ok again. Please be warned that if you enter into a sealed bid process with KFH you cannot assume that it will be honoured.

Hi - I know a local guitar teacher who teaches other young students locally and may be able to fit your son in. His name is Dan Maitland - [email protected].

Hi all, Steve and his colleague recently came and painted the front of our house, which badly needed smartening up. They were reliable and very pleasant to deal with and have done a great job, I'd have no hestitation in recommending them.

One of most appreciated things I got for husband was a really nice map of London for wall with cycling routes all marked on. It was from notonthehighstreet. They do all different colours/sizes and framed or unframed. Went down really well and is always a talking point when people come over. Good luck!

LOL "tin pan band" = steel pan band!

Agree that CCS is great, my daughters went there for 2 years from the age of about 4-6. Now they are at Jasspa, a Saturday school based at JAPS that does classes in drama, dance and singing, they are in the junior choir which I think starts at age 6. It's fantastic.

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you could try next for leotard etc, they don't do shoes but you can get those from duo dance in herne hill.

I am so glad I caught this, having been under the care of many of the docs featured (including the Prof and Leonie Penna, who was fantastic) when we had our identical twins. They developed twin to twin transfusion and I had the laser procedure featured on the programme. Having that op and then waiting for that follow-up scan was the worst 2 weeks of my life. We were among the very lucky ones in that both our girls survived, the programme brought back lots of memories but more than anything reminded me how lucky we are to have our NHS and such a fantastic specialist ante-natal centre virtually on our doorstep!

Please come along and help us celebrate this great news at our summer fair on Saturday 7th July between 12 and 4! There will be facepainting, bouncy castles, food and drinks, lots of fun games and activities, the obligatory mini Olympics plus performances on stage including the new and very talented parents and staff choir! HP

I am really happy with this school too. It has a lot to recommend it and my daughters love it and are thriving there. The latest Ofsted report should be published very soon.