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A&E are actually taking fixed appointments at the moment. Access through calling 111. My experience ... I tore a calf muscle a few weeks ago (running - stupid idea) called 111 (thought I'd snapped my Achille's) spent 10 mins convincing them that I didn't have covid (screening questionnaire) got to speak to a Dr, who then referred me to King's A&E with fixed appointment - I was to turn up at 19:38 (note the very specific time). Turned up, couple of minutes early. Hand gel in reception, social distancing in place, I registered my arrival with receptionist and has just taken my coat off to sit in the socially distanced waiting area - I hadn't even sat down - when I was called to see the Dr. I'm sure I'd have got absolutely nowhere with my GP so I think I was lucky it happened on a Sunday really, otherwise 111 might have just referred me to GP. @Pugwash - Might be helpful if there's further health problems with your relative, albeit their issues are obviously significantly more complicated than a torn muscle.

The Apple version is called screen time. First you need to set up a family group (of Apple IDs) https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201088 Then you can simply control everything under Screen Time; https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201304 You can control which apps they can use, and when, and for how long. It's very easy to follow the instructions - they have pictures of which things to tap etc. And if you get stuck you Apple will help on chat or on the phone https://getsupport.apple.com/

Pete has replaced some broken tiles on our bathroom floor, re-tiled the niche in our shower and fixed the long term problem with it holding water, and retiled the floor in the loft shower room. Everything looks perfect and he came up with some great solutions to some problems we were not expecting (like the replacement tiles I bought being a very slightly different size to the originals). Prompt start, every day. Each evening left his work area tidy and clean. Left the finished site spotless. I would definitely use him again, and I can recommend him without hesitation.

JAGS Sports Club and Dulwich College Sports Club have a number of teachers that use the facilities to do private lessons. But other recent threads here, would indicate that until pool use returns to normal there's no availability. There's people further afield I can recommend - Blackfriars, Victoria, Tower Hill, perhaps London Bridge. So if the travel isn't an issue PM me and I can send you details of where to look.

first mate Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why is it that on the cycle hangar commonplace map > you can ask for a cycle hangar but as a resident > on the same street you cannot object to it. Again, > seems anyone can ask for hangars and state there > is terrific demand without any proper analysis. > Totally undemocratic. Completely agree.

Beckenham Spa has a small pool with a moveable floor they use for babies and which they heat to a suitable temp.

I think it might be worth speaking to Citizen's Advice - if you can get an appointment. I suspect in accepting the vouchers you actually lost your claim to a full refund under the frustrated contract method - but maybe not, and that's why I'd speak to CAB. If it were me, tbh, I'd just write to them with a 'Letter before action' (google it) setting out what's gone wrong and why, stating that you have become aware that you ought to have been offered a full refund initially as your contract was frustrated, that their remedy offered is unacceptable because of XXX and that you'd like them to do YYY within 14 days or you'll begin proceedings in County Court. There are templates available online for the letter. I'd probably just ask for the full refund, but you could ask for a voucher to cover the lost value or cover a similar course (regardless of their increased prices!!). I think your money back would be easiest. Good luck - and do post on how you get on.

Betty orange - They can use the public swimming sessions too. These are not lane swimming sessions and probably better for bigger kids than the family session which tend to be toddlers, babies and younger kids. There?s also Camberwell, Peckham Pulse and The Castle Centre at the Elephant they could use and which might have public sessions at different times. The easiest way to check and book is via the everyone active app. Finally there?s also Forest Hill. All of them easy to get to on buses from lordship lane.

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lucerne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Gah what a demoralising little thread this is at > the end of the year we (& that lovely little cafe > and all others like it) have had and thank the > lord for those of you who chipped up and agree. > little cafes like this one and little tables > outdoors (for the paltry few weeks of the looong > year that's actually possible in UK weather) are > what make ED ED. > > Please redirect all this energy to causes worthy > of such indignation. What Lucerne said

Have a look at what JAGS Sports Club and Dulwich College Sports Club are offering. May not have the details available yet though. The teaching is good and 1:1s are available. If you can go out of the area then Swimming Nature are very good. http://www.swimmingnature.com/sn-public/ They certainly have courses at the Queen Mum in Victoria. You don't have to wait for the summer if you want 1:1s - again, JAGS and DC Sports Clubs both have teachers who offer 1:1s and who can assess the swimming ability and give you an idea of the sort of progress you might expect over what sort of timeframe.

sue k harding Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > mmmmmmm my app still isn't working Delete it and re-install it.

Scouts, girlguides, but mostly the local schools. If you're 18+ you can do Gold direct. AFAIK it's all on hold with everyone because of covid

The app is also working again now.

When you say private, do you mean one-to-one? If that's because your kid is very nervous they may benefit from starting at Beckenham Spa - in the group lessons which means they'll be in with "friends". The teaching pool is warm as a bath and the floor is moveable so they start the tiny ones off just walking across the pool. Before you know it they are dunking them in the deep end of the main pool and have them doggy paddling back. It's well over 10 years since we did this but the teaching then was superb and I know the facilities are still excellent. So may be worth a look. If you do mean one-to-one Beckenham may still be able to connect you to a teacher. JAGS Sports Club certainly can - give them a ring on 020 8613 6500. Dulwich College also has a sports club and there is private swim teaching out of there - https://www.dcsportsclub.co.uk/freelance-swimming/ Both JAGS SC and DCSC do group lessons too but I think the kids may have to already be 4 before they can go on the waiting lists for group lessons. Finally there's also Tigersharks locally - group only, I think, but they do take very little ones, I believe / and you can go with them. Otherwise there are people like Swimming Nature who are good, but not local. Hope that helps, and drop me a PM if you don't get anywhere / want to talk. I've been involved with kids swimming for a long time now, but I'm afraid I am not a teacher.

Quite a lot of people we know, including ourselves, have taken advantage of the superb primaries in the area and then gone private for the transition to secondary. There are good private schools that are not pressure cookers. St Dunstan's and Sydenham High both get good results but are by no means exam factories and offer lots of choice to nurture interests both academically and non-academically. Some of the local state secondaries are fabulous, but of no use to you if you know you won't get into them from where you live. We hoped for state secondary, were aware that we might not get anything we wanted, made a back up plan for private secondary, and in the end our daughter liked the school (Sydenham High) so much that we decided it was the right place for her anyway, regardless of the state offer outcome. If you have more than one, bear in mind you'll very likely want them to go to the same place. It just makes life logistically less challenging. You'll also get a discount after first kid. Nevertheless 2 kids in private school is a lot of money. And for your kids' long term outcomes, you may be better off investing that money into shares for them in a trust fund for when they reach adulthood. Much will depend on how much of an 'absolutely not' your likely state secondaries are. Finally - it's easy to argue from the extremes on this. We all know of kids who've been private all through and come out of it unable to hold a fork and a conversation at the same time. And equally kids who went to failing schools in sink estates where every lesson was disrupted by trouble, and who nevertheless went on to excel academically. But on the whole, private schools get better results, have better facilities, offer more choice to support kids' interests, and are better able to get the best outcomes for kids - exactly because they have better facilities, smaller classes, and less in-class disruption to have to deal with which makes more time and space for teaching and the bit that really makes the difference, discussion about what's been taught. Good luck, whatever you decide.

Interesting. So if I am interpreting those results correctly, the evidence is incontrovertible that if all the people who've ever cycled or walked or skipped or scootered (non-electric) or swam (when the floods were on) through the Herne Hill underpass, had in in fact done that at the same time, each person in their own individual articulated stretch lorry, the queue would have gone all the way to JAGS and back and therefore it's just as well those people who keep cycling up and down Melbourne Grove have nothing better to do. I think I've got it. The LTNs are here to stay.

The photo booth in Sainsbury?s Dog Kennel Hill. It is ?6 for 4 but you also get a code which when you do your passport application online you just pop in when asked and automagically your approved photo is there. Went a couple of weeks ago so defo open in lockdown. Tried taking photos at home with phone but couldn?t get any without shadow etc. The booth shows you what the photo will look like before you accept them so you can make sure they meet all the criteri.

Hello councillors. The recycling collection on Bawdale road was missed last Tuesday. It?s now been 3 weeks since the recycling was collected. I put in a missed collection report so mine was collected last week but the rest of the street still need a catch up collection. I can?t work out how to report this. Can you help?

Good luck with it all AnnieC. Rent is going to be your biggest outlay, so as tomskip says I would use https://www.rightmove.co.uk/ to have a look around. You can set the search for South East London and filter by property type, minimum beds. maximum price etc. If you could go down to 3 beds it would make quite a difference in price and perhaps not that much difference to your lifestyle. Just a thought. A car will probably make your life significantly easier. If only for ferrying the kids to and from activities. Obviously it will depend on exactly where you live and if you're all stay at home sorts - but for most SE London families I would say a car is a necessity. You can budget by having a look on https://www.autotrader.co.uk/ On our narrow Victorian Streets most cars get quite a few dents and scratches. We've generally gone for a 2-3 year old Ford with reasonable milage and then not worried too much about the paintwork. The biggest supermarkets where you could budget a monthly shop would be tesco.com and sainsbury's.co.uk For transport costs have a look here https://tfl.gov.uk/fares/find-fares?intcmp=54646 If you are going to be going to Old Street 5 days a week, you're better off with a monthly pass. For anything less, you can just pay as you go with any contactless bank card and you get all the benefits of price capping etc. This is useful for info https://visitlondon.com/traveller-information/getting-around-london/do-kids-need-an-oyster-card

Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- .... > any difference in the ****router**** performance, .... > Why? BT owns Plusnet and they use the same kit in > the exchanges. The BT router is better spec'd than the PN one, so that's why you'd perhaps expect to notice a difference. Sue didn't, I certainly did!

You can't pay with cash, so it's either an Oyster or just use a contactless bank card. Just be super careful to always use the same card to make sure you get charged the correct price and benefit from daily and weekly capping. NB: monthly capping doesn't apply to contactless yet, so if you're going to be travelling several times per week a monthly travel card might be better value and you can only get that on an Oyster as far as I know.

nxjen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And outside the gym and cinema Yes. The angles are deceptive. Looks like there's five paving slabs between ESPH and the bus stop and six between the PO bust stop and the dry cleaners. The difference being that there's often a queue of people outside the post office in that six tile space, whereas at the stop outside ESPH people queue alongside the road for the bus.

I hammer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes I saw him one morning cycling over London > Bridge. > He's a man of the people. I saw him on London Bridge once. Wish I'd chucked him in the Thames now.

nxjen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The pavement is very narrow there and when there > are people waiting for a bus it is impossible to > walk by and maintain social distancing without > walking in the road. Street widening on the other > side of the road is irrelevant. It?s no more narrow than the stop outside the post office. Especially when there?s a queue of people along the wall for the post office