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Re: Wandsworth Food Hygiene Scores

Very useful reminder!! Thank you.
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Wandsworth Food Hygiene Scores
Replies: 1
by Bookymummy
Mon Feb 17, 2025 6:16 pm

Re: How do you keep your children grounded?

What a lovely, thoughtful reply. I agree so much that telling children they are ‘so lucky’ can have completely deleterious effects. I also think it tends to make the assumption, as kinda came across from the OP, that material wealth is ‘privilege’. Whilst nice to have, I’m not convinced any material...
Forum: Got a Question?
Topic: How do you keep your children grounded?
Replies: 19
by Bookymummy
Mon Feb 10, 2025 5:56 pm

Re: Who else feels outraged about what councils have done to Wandsworth Bridge Rd and Streatham  High Rd

A question we all need to ask ourselves is who exactly has a vested interest in ensuring the demise of small, local, independent businesses, and at the same time in driving local domestic drivers off the roads in order to free up road space for the multitudes of delivery vans that race around the st...
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Who else feels outraged about what councils have done to Wandsworth Bridge Rd and Streatham  High Rd
Replies: 28
by Bookymummy
Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:00 am

Re: Is it time to ban 4x4s?

I’m equivocal about the cars, but just wanted to pick up on the comment about cycling in Amsterdam as an example of a ‘pro-cycling’ environment. It might well feel ‘super safe’ for cyclists, sadly I don’t think the same could be said for pedestrians. I’ve just come back from Amsterdam too and, as a ...
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Is it time to ban 4x4s?
Replies: 20
by Bookymummy
Mon Jul 24, 2023 6:29 pm

Re: Emanuel School

I am very interested to hear your positive experience of Emanuel. Might I ask, is your son in the Lower years of the School (Y6-Y8)? There have been a significant number of changes to Emanuel in recent years, which to be honest, have not, IMHO, enhanced the experience for existing pupils. Certainly,...
Forum: Schools
Topic: Emanuel School
Replies: 9
by Bookymummy
Mon Feb 03, 2020 1:30 pm

Emanuel School

Any Emanuel parents feeling disillusioned and fed up with the school? Massive changes to the school over the last 2-3 years seem to have created a huge concern for the ‘wider community’ and pupils of other ‘local’ schools at the cost of a complete indifference to it’s own current pupils. Fee increas...
Forum: Schools
Topic: Emanuel School
Replies: 9
by Bookymummy
Sat Jan 25, 2020 9:16 am

Re: How I’m voting to Labour to Remain in Battersea and why I’ve done a tactical vote swap to help the Lib Dems.

Why would Leavers have any 'fear' as you call it of a second Referendum? The precedent would have been set for them to refuse to accept the result and demand a re-run as everyone didn't 'understand the issues'; 'didn't know what they voted for'; and had 'changed their minds'. Or are you not allowed ...
Forum: General Chat
Topic: How I’m voting to Labour to Remain in Battersea and why I’ve done a tactical vote swap to help the Lib Dems.
Replies: 54
by Bookymummy
Tue Nov 12, 2019 9:06 pm

Re: How I’m voting to Labour to Remain in Battersea and why I’ve done a tactical vote swap to help the Lib Dems.

T May's 'Deal' was not Brexit. It was (and remains) a Document that would have made the UK a vassal state of the EU. In the UK we have never held a public plebiscite where the outcome has not been implemented before re-running the vote. Anything other than this is an abomination, a travesty of Democ...
Forum: General Chat
Topic: How I’m voting to Labour to Remain in Battersea and why I’ve done a tactical vote swap to help the Lib Dems.
Replies: 54
by Bookymummy
Mon Nov 11, 2019 7:22 pm

Re: How I’m voting to Labour to Remain in Battersea and why I’ve done a tactical vote swap to help the Lib Dems.

The concept of a 'second Referendum' is completely undemocratic because it invalidates and negates the first Referendum. This is the first vote in our history where, because the losers of the first vote cannot accept their loss, the entire Country is being held in limbo for years, every effort being...
Forum: General Chat
Topic: How I’m voting to Labour to Remain in Battersea and why I’ve done a tactical vote swap to help the Lib Dems.
Replies: 54
by Bookymummy
Mon Nov 11, 2019 10:36 am

Re: Thanks Boris you git

GuyD73, Yes, I did observe Phigoldenspirals comments. However, the reason I did not comment is that I have a big problem with concerns such as these being aired after, rather than before, the event. As I recall, the Referendum, and it's various issues, were discussed, virtually ad nauseum, in just a...
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Thanks Boris you git
Replies: 31
by Bookymummy
Wed Jul 06, 2016 6:26 pm

Re: Thanks Boris you git

Pie81, that is in fact just the problem, not the solution! Huge numbers of very low wage/black market workers add very little (usually nothing) to the tax base, because they earn too little to pay tax, yet still access schools, housing, GPs, NHS etc. All problems felt most acutely outside of metropo...
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Thanks Boris you git
Replies: 31
by Bookymummy
Mon Jul 04, 2016 5:30 pm

Re: Thanks Boris you git

Goodness me Petal!! For avoidence of all doubt, your arrogant, bigoted, elitest, London-centric rant is the very reason people such as myself voted Leave. People fortunate enough to live in leafy, lovely, affluent, nappy vally land clearly have very little idea of what life is like in places like Ha...
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Thanks Boris you git
Replies: 31
by Bookymummy
Mon Jul 04, 2016 2:00 pm