hellosailor

Dear GOD that pavlova cake looks good SG?.

You can find out when the schools were last OFSTEDed by looking on the OFSTED website for the full reports. It is worth noting that schools can be brought down from 'outstanding' to 'good' on the basis, for example, that ONE book was found that had not been marked for 2 weeks, before basing your decision on OFSTED reports. You can find the details of the further distance place offered in the first round this year by looking on the primary schools offer thread on here or phoning southwark who will email you a spreadsheet with all the distances this year for southwark primaries. Renata Hamvas has also posted this document on the thread on here. I wouldn't worry too much about which to choose as a quick skim of the lengthy primary offers thread on here will demonstrate that rather than having to weigh up which you will send your child to, you will pretty much be told by Southwark where they're going, so your opinion of which you prefer is largely academic. Hope that was free enough of class bashing for you! Maybe you should read the multiple threads on Heber, Goodrich, primary offers, distances, etc rather than 'those' threads!

Yes as the crow flies

We had the procedure done on our second baby at Katie's home and it's all very sterile. You're right, one of you does have to hold the baby still tho if you have it done at her home.

does anyone know what the furthest distance offered for goodrich was this year?

Not our turn till next year but Bessemer would be our first choice having visited, it look and felt fab, congratulations!! xx

Renata when will you be able to let us know the furthest distances for southwark schools this year please?

Yes there is one where Friern meets Upland

Daniel Santa at DS Repairs is reasonable and very hard working, he did a couple of things for us recently and I was very pleased with the work, 07580 377 153

same here

This is a thread from a while ago http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?29,1028264,page=1

Thanks so much all for your replies, I'm going to call that organisation today Sillywoman. I fear my friend may be psychologically some way off documenting the abuse, getting together a case, talking to anyone, and is more at the 'just wanting it to stop' so they can all remain as a family stage. I don't know whether it is at all realistic to think this is a possibility? I have also wondered if it could be some sort of pnd, as it started after the birth of their child, but then I guess you often hear of people starting to be violent only after a certain time in a relationship, perhaps when they feel secure when they have married someone, had children etc, so it could also be that I suppose. But I have wondered if it could be some sort of chemical imbalance post childbirth etc

I'm planning on ringing the National Domestic Violence Helpline as well but wondered whether any family roomers have advice.. I have a male friend who has always had a turbulent relationship with his partner, lots of intense rowing and dramatic bust ups over the years, but not actual violence at that point. They now have a 2 year old child and since having the child, his partner has become physically abusive too. Very small stuff can make her fly off the handle, such as him arriving home from work 1/2 an hour later than she expects because he has been called into a last minute meeting. She flies at him in a rage and hits him, gouges his arms, neck etc, so that he regularly has bruises and deep scratches and has a lot of scars on his arms. I found out recently the extent to which this was happening and also that she does it in front of the child, in fact, this week, she attacked him while he was actually holding the child, so when his head flipped forward in recoil, he actually bumped heads with the child quite hard so the child was bawling from that, quite apart from what he was observing. If it wasn't for the child I think he would leave her, but he can't bear the idea of not living with the child, and also knows that she would be incredibly angry and vindictive if he were to leave and would try and prevent him from seeing the child. She is never particularly apologetic after one of these incidents, using the classic 'I've never been like this with anyone before so it must be you making me do it' routine. I think me and my partner are the only people who know about it and I'm just not sure what the right thing to do is?any advice very gratefully received xx

In several papers today http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10711927/Mother-wins-victory-for-boy-too-young-for-school.html

This has come up before on here, I think with JennyH, if I remember correctly you need to send off for a replacement bit from bugaboo which fixes it, but I expect JennyH will be along in a minute to clarify..

Buds in the Goose Green centre (in the church on Goose Green) is really lovely.

Cargiant do some stuff like tell you they still have a certain car on their forecourt that you enquire about and then when you get there it's not true, they just wanted to get you to the premises. Also, when we went to look at one car through them, it turned out to be the same model and colour as the one we'd been looking at photos of, but not the same actual car, instead it was in worse condition. They said they 'sometimes used photos of a different car'?er? prob best to avoid..

We found it easiest to find the second hand car we were looking for on auto trader, then we got RAC or AA, I forget which one we're with but they both offer this service to members and non-members, to come and do a check which was about 140 quid I think. And when they said it was all fine we went ahead and bought it. http://www.rac.co.uk/buying-a-car/vehicle-inspections/vehicle-inspections-for-private-buyers/

This man is utterly awesome!

WTF? No ruby slippers with a Dorothy costume?? Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Really annoyed. Rushed to Argos to buy this > > http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/1 > 431764.htm#pdpFullProductInformation > > And after spending ?25 it comes out and it's just > the crappy polyester dress, no ruby slippers and > no basket (they are sold separately, but not by > argos!). > > Feeling robbed, and hating world feckin book > day!!!

I agree smart trikes are a total waste of money, they can't pedal them at that age and by the time they can they really want a micro scooter as jollymummy says. They are hard to steer for the parent, even the '5 in 1' Mothercare ones with better steering. We bought one, used it just a couple of times, sold it. There was a thread on this a while ago with lots of people saying they had found the same.

looks like plenty of people are thinking about it, and there are some good tips on things to think about in these threads, even the ones that aren't London based xx http://www.gingerbread.org.uk/Forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=3551 http://www.movethat.co.uk/London/Forum/Single_Parents/ http://www.netmums.com/coffeehouse/advice-support-40/single-parents-support-45/954313-single-parent-house-share-all.html

I have a friend who did this (she and her son rented a house with another single mum and her son) and it worked very well. They met up to get to know each other and talk about it a couple of times before introducing their sons to get their opinion too, and all four were into the idea of giving it a go so they did!

Hi Jenny, There was a thread on cat allergies recently and someone - Pickle I think - suggested a product called Petalcleanse which I think you apply to your cat's coat once a week. I have just ordered some to try with our cat. It gets good reviews http://www.amazon.co.uk/PetalCleanse-Cat-small-animal-treatment/dp/B00379F0AQ

It may well be that they don't let you switch to omeprazole until you've done the requisite amount of days trial with ranatadine - (2 weeks? from memory?) We pressed to be changed but had to wait until we'd done the suggested amount of days with ranatadine (frustrating at the time but I guess it makes sense.) Omeprazole has worked wonders for us but, I remember thinking on about day 7, it's just getting worse, it's not working, and then bang on day 8, it kicked in and everything changed, so sometimes I think they really do take a while to work even if they look like they're not going to. Fingers crossed for you x