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Re: Proposed change to Waitrose Balham Car Park - Automatic Number Plate Recognition

I really hope they don’t get the go ahead!
What a pain in the a-e it would be as at the moment if you collect a package you don’t need to pay for shopping just to get free parking . And the guy is really helpful .
Replies: 12
Wed Jan 24, 2024 3:16 pm

Re: Advice Needed: How To 'Diet' Without Adversely Affecting My Tween?

There is absolutely no need for your daughter to be affected adversely as all you need to do is to cook healthily and ear as a family. I do hope you know the concept of calorie restriction is a total fallacy as food is so much more to the body than the basic calorie theory from the 1800s. Make it ev...
Forum: Wellbeing
Replies: 2
Wed Jan 03, 2024 10:11 pm

Re: 'No left turn' rule causes chaos in Kimber Road, Earlsfield

I can only assume this is the kind of nonsense you get with a Labour lead council
Forum: Local News
Replies: 5
Mon Dec 18, 2023 10:11 pm

Re: Awful SIL making me dread extended family Christmas

Yes, interesting debate, even if off toplc. I just wanted to clarify. I hope the OP manages to survive Xmas. Perhaps I should have said we own our reactions. There is always a choice, even if it doesn’t always feel like it in the moment. It easier and more comfortable to blame the person who makes y...
Replies: 19
Fri Dec 08, 2023 9:52 pm

Re: Awful SIL making me dread extended family Christmas

Chorister, I know it might seem odd, the concept of owning your feelings. People protest and say, “but hang on, so and so was being a total cow” etc The point is, for personal growth, we need to accept that we can’t change others. We can only control ourselves and how we choose to react. It’s not ea...
Replies: 19
Fri Dec 08, 2023 5:13 pm

Re: Awful SIL making me dread extended family Christmas

Nobody should have knots in their stomach thinking about Xmas . From what you wrote, I can’t help but wonder how much of this is about you and your own confidence. The way you describe her as being successful and apologetic about your own choice to not work. We are responsible for our own feelings, ...
Replies: 19
Fri Dec 08, 2023 8:25 am

Re: Tuition, best one to one or in a group?

So far Mathnasium on northcote road has been an absolute joke of an organisation. That was just the process of trying to enrol and do their assessment . Disorganised, failing to get information right despite repeated corrections. It’s loud in there and can’t see now kids can concentrate. I think 1:1...
Forum: Schools
Replies: 3
Thu Dec 07, 2023 10:20 pm

Re: Northcote Road quiet?

Things certainly have changed in the last 15 yrs. Parking is one! It’s now gone up so much I do think twice before parking near shopping streets since Wandsworth put the cost up to £3.90/hr! Before I would park wherever all the time and not care. Wandsworth are not helping local businesses by puttin...
Replies: 23
Tue Nov 21, 2023 7:56 pm

Re: Catcalling

Hi, I’m sorry that your daughter experienced this and was distressed. It wasn’t clear who did this and if other people were around to be able to do something. Who did this? Was is a grown man or school boys? It would be a serious matter if the former. Girls have the right to walk home in peace witho...
Topic: Catcalling
Replies: 16
Tue Nov 21, 2023 11:08 am

Re: Action plan to improve road safety for children attending schools in Balham

Has this already been decided or any consultation still?

Only way to make a difference is to voice opinion to council, not on here.

I’m for zebra crossings, but to me the right hand turn restriction is only designed it be a cash cow.
Forum: Local News
Replies: 42
Mon Nov 20, 2023 6:19 pm

Re: How can I get my husband to give up smoking?

Forgot to say, if smoking is a stress buster, getting help to manage the stress if necessary
Forum: Wellbeing
Replies: 9
Sun Nov 19, 2023 12:44 pm

Re: How can I get my husband to give up smoking?

Short answer, you can’t. It’s his habit and it requires his own will. However, what can help is the following. If he’s willing to try. Ask him, out of all the cigarettes he smokes which one can he let go off. The only he has just because but can really do without. This is the first one to let go off...
Forum: Wellbeing
Replies: 9
Sun Nov 19, 2023 12:43 pm

Re: Menopause Specialist comes to Northcote Road

This is great, but also a sad reflection that women don’t always get the help they need via the NHS and need to pay to get such important care.

Welcome and good luck!
Forum: Wellbeing
Replies: 3
Tue Nov 14, 2023 11:54 pm

Aggressive psycho lady on Manchuria Road

Does anyone on Manchuria road know of a sweary older lady who’s often verbally abusive to children?? We’ve encountered her before, funnily enough during Halloween. She was saying “do you believe in God?? “ And was irate and started swearing. Today my daughter was walking past her herself and this ps...
Replies: 1
Fri Oct 27, 2023 5:15 pm

Re: Marks and Spencer Clapham Junction

And I suppose you also don’t want grannies smiling at your kids on the bus? Unless someone is being inappropriate which is not what you are suggesting, I totally disagree. It’s normal to interact in society and I feel Sorry for the person you are complaining about. I can imagine it’s very dull to st...
Replies: 3
Wed Oct 18, 2023 9:33 pm