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Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: Does Work Pay?
| How does anyone with more than one child of pre-school age afford to work full time?
I thought I only needed to fund the first 3 years with savings as fees would reduce once children reach 2 and 3 y... |
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11-01-2011, 06:06 PM |
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Thread: Free Baby books in Serbian
Post: Free Baby books in Serbian
| I hope there is another Serbian family that may appreciate these.
I have a few books to give away in Serbian language. Perfect if you want to introduce another language to your baby. Teaching colou... |
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08-12-2012, 08:08 PM |
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Thread: NCT Nearly New Sale
Post: NCT Nearly New Sale
| Come and grab a bargain at the NCT Nearly New Sale on next Saturday 21 April 2012 at St Lawrence Church Hall, Bromley Road, Catford, SE6 2TS.
The sale is open from 11.00 to 12.30 - there is early e... |
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16-04-2012, 11:08 AM |
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Thread: Oyster card found in Derby Hill
Post: Oyster card found in Derby Hill
| On my retun home I found an Oyster card in Derby Hill.
please pm me and if it is yours (there is a name in it) you can pick it up. |
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12-09-2011, 06:47 PM |
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Thread: Anyone for tennis?
Post: RE: Anyone for tennis?
| I've seen some courts at Crystal Palace, which are probably available hor hire on casual basis.
There is also Sydenham Tennis club (bus routes 176 & 197) |
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07-02-2012, 02:13 PM |
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Thread: Budget 2012
Post: RE: Budget 2012
| Well,
some may be better off due to increase in personal allowance, but cost of living is increasing above the rate of wage increases. It is even worse for people who are made redundant and out of wo... |
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22-03-2012, 02:15 PM |
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Thread: Budget 2012
Post: RE: Budget 2012
| Brian,
are you not aware that that more than half of the welfare bill is paid out as pensions. All reductions in welfare are aimed at the other half.
If deficit reduction is the top priority th... |
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23-03-2012, 10:47 AM |
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Thread: Budget 2012
Post: RE: Budget 2012
| [quote]I accept half the welfare is pensions but most pensioners have put in over there working lives.
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Surely if previous generations have paid enough, we would be sitting on a budget su... |
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23-03-2012, 11:09 PM |
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Thread: Buggy-hating 176 driver
Post: RE: Buggy-hating 176 driver
| Very sad indeed.
The attitude of parents can be so wrong. They wait and let busses pass by because they can’t always get on the first one. When they get on, they irritate others by going to the area ... |
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27-10-2010, 03:33 PM |
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Thread: Buggy-hating 176 driver
Post: RE: Buggy-hating 176 driver
| It is also sad that you can’t see where Roz is coming from too.
In all the time I have used the busses I have seen many buggies and not once a wheelchair. (I commuted to work by bus for some 4 yea... |
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27-10-2010, 03:58 PM |
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Thread: Buggy-hating 176 driver
Post: RE: Buggy-hating 176 driver
| Roz,
would you please tell us how often do you miss a bus because you can't get on with your children? |
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27-10-2010, 04:00 PM |
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Thread: Buggy-hating 176 driver
Post: RE: Buggy-hating 176 driver
| So we now all agree that is not easy being a parent with children on busses.
I see no wrong for Roz staying on a bus even if a wheel chaired person had to wait for another one.
I resent that lim... |
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27-10-2010, 05:29 PM |
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Thread: Buggy-hating 176 driver
Post: RE: Buggy-hating 176 driver
| Brian,
60 years ago your mother had a rather different life than most mothers today and has little relevance to current situation with transport. I resent that you imply that mothers of today are of ... |
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01-11-2010, 06:05 PM |
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Thread: Buggy-hating 176 driver
Post: RE: Buggy-hating 176 driver
| "[i]This thread is going around in circles. Can we all agree that the 176 driver should stop and allow parents / carers with buggies to board the bus when there is room? [/i]"
Seems we can’t. There... |
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01-11-2010, 10:21 PM |
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Thread: Buggy-hating 176 driver
Post: RE: Buggy-hating 176 driver
| Michael,
you should know that we live in very tolerant SE23 although it seems that those advocating it have forgotten its meaning. (One can find it here http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/toleran... |
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11-11-2010, 01:15 AM |
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Thread: Buggy-hating 176 driver
Post: RE: Buggy-hating 176 driver
| The only reason why I fold the buggy is because I can do it when I am travelling with ONE toddler and my children are not keen on being strapped unless tired/asleep. So far I have avoided using busses... |
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12-11-2010, 09:44 AM |
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Thread: Carnival Against The Cuts, 19th Feb
Post: RE: Carnival Against The Cuts, 19th Feb
| Brian,
Some people face rather bleak prospects in the current climate. If you are not one of them you should consider yourself either lucky or not informed well.
You obviously have no connection t... |
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13-02-2011, 06:38 PM |
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Thread: Carnival Against The Cuts, 19th Feb
Post: RE: Carnival Against The Cuts, 19th Feb
| Dearest Brian,
not sure which charity you work for and what benefit they provide. As you claim they do not need government help to run I expect they have healthy income selling something (eg clothe... |
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13-02-2011, 10:19 PM |
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Thread: Childcare - what do people genrally do?
Post: RE: Childcare - what do people genrally do?
| Hi,
questions are never ignorant. Costs of nurseries although important are not the only factor to consider. The biggest problem you will find is that there is not enough provision. Also due to reg... |
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10-06-2011, 08:35 PM |
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Thread: Chile Miners
Post: RE: Chile Miners
| I am so glad that the miners have been saved. The families have played their part not just by praying but by keeping the pressure on everyone they could to get the rescue operation going.
At the sa... |
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14-10-2010, 11:22 AM |
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Thread: Criminal punishment
Post: RE: Criminal punishment
| I thought 'Community Payback' was scheme that is designed to humiliate some offenders.
I have certainly seen such a scheme in SE23 when they lifelessly cleared a public footpath. |
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02-02-2011, 10:18 AM |
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Thread: Criminal punishment
Post: RE: Criminal punishment
| Jane D
interesting question.
I have direct experience of a country that has gone quite hard on terrorists and its own population even 40 years ago if not longer. Everyone acts as if they are guilty ... |
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02-02-2011, 10:55 PM |
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Thread: Crystal Palace Park
Post: RE: Crystal Palace Park
| Just seen the news on CP FC.
http://www.cpfc.co.uk/page/News/0,,10323~2271669,00.html
No problem with the club wanting to move in the park, but am uneasy about changes to the existing pools.
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20-01-2011, 05:36 PM |
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Thread: Crystal Palace Park
Post: RE: Crystal Palace Park
| there were more 50m pools in Belgrade (Serbia) than in the whole UK.
And I have only heard of one Serbian swimmer (who lives in USA) |
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20-01-2011, 11:08 PM |
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Thread: Cuts to Lewisham Hospital A&E
Post: RE: Cuts to Lewisham Hospital A&E
| Forester:
not sure if true that spokesman said it would look at primary legislation to be applied yet again retrospectively. It certainly smacks of incompetence if not of some far greater crimes.
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Thread: Damage to cars on Davids Road
Post: RE: Damage to cars on Davids Road
| I second IWAF remarks.
Once I spoke to my brother who is a 'bendy bus' driver about the incidents where a bus had dragged a person for a considerable distance before the driver noticed it had run ... |
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01-08-2011, 10:34 AM |
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Thread: Damage to cars on Davids Road
Post: RE: Damage to cars on Davids Road
| HGV drivers are people who earn a living by driving. Do you think they would jeopardise their income by going for a ride and cause as much damage as they can get away with. Sooner or later they would ... |
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02-08-2011, 05:10 PM |
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Thread: Damage to cars on Davids Road
Post: RE: Damage to cars on Davids Road
| Monika,
your kind of attitude will make your 'fight for justice' much harder.
I am not trying to preach but just a thought; it may be smarter to give the benefit of the doubt and find some comm... |
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02-08-2011, 08:28 PM |
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Thread: Devonshire Road - residents parking
Post: RE: Devonshire Road - residents parking
| Some time ago I posted my view to the council that parking in my road (Derby Hill Crescent) was fine and no CPZ should be introduced. Well, that was before ELL started and I am almost tempted to petit... |
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10-01-2011, 10:34 PM |
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Thread: Devonshire Road - residents parking
Post: RE: Devonshire Road - residents parking
| Michael,
I like your idea about extra parking for the commuters. Is there a petition I could sign along those lines? |
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12-01-2011, 05:24 PM |
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Thread: Do burglers ever get caught?
Post: RE: Do burglers ever get caught?
| I recently received a letter from the police saying that they will not investigate further instance of someone relieving me of my wallet. The fact that it happened in a shop with CCTV inside, and only... |
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18-11-2010, 12:18 AM |
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Thread: Do burglers ever get caught?
Post: RE: Do burglers ever get caught?
| When your DNA is found at the scene of a crime that will certainly mean that you must be guilty of it. And since you are law abiding citizen you have nothing to worry about. |
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23-11-2010, 09:50 PM |
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Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?
| Thanks for all the replies. I somehow feel a bit less a failure when seeing that in order to work full time, you need some form of ‘free’ childcare. (be it friends, partner or working compressed weeks... |
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12-01-2011, 10:44 AM |
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Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?
| Dear Brian,
stated aims of policies are one thing, and the outcomes are another. I've show you that my family with 2 preschool children (3 years so far and 2 to go) can face substantial hurdles to ma... |
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12-01-2011, 03:33 PM |
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Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?
| Brian,
Should a family with 2 good working wages be better off than family with one good working wage?
My problems are of temporary (5 years) financial nature. Living on state handouts most likely... |
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12-01-2011, 06:14 PM |
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Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?
| mljay
if you need 2 salaries to maintain home you live in, and then you face childcare bill which is more than one net salary but a bit less than the other.
To supplement your income you start ... |
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13-01-2011, 04:38 PM |
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Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?
| Brian,
are you suggesting that toddlers should pick fruit together with parents so that they can earn money?
And should one be forced to work if childcare costs would be higher than earnings? Shou... |
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25-01-2011, 04:23 PM |
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Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?
| There is simply not enough nursery provision in the area. Therefore it is rather expensive.
With needing childcare in order to work, a HUGE amount of the wage goes onto it. The new government is re... |
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27-01-2011, 10:40 AM |
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Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?
| [quote]There needs to be much more fuss made about the deprivations faced by ordinary families in the extremely expensive early years of childhood and the need for substantially more financial support... |
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27-01-2011, 04:11 PM |
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Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?
| mljay,
I am sure Brian was offering his help in a roundabout way. |
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11-03-2011, 02:57 PM |
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Thread: Does Work Pay?
Post: RE: Does Work Pay?
| What a discussion is this turning out to be. What is evident is that prevailing opinion is that children are the sole responsibility of parents. This is expressed here as much as in other mediums and ... |
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25-03-2011, 11:56 PM |
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Thread: Dropped kerb enforcement - Lewisham
Post: RE: Dropped kerb enforcement - Lewisham
| Hi Monacot,
you have my sympathies. With 2 children and bags you have no idea what to leave behind, and that 50 yards may be too long for anyone's comfort if the baby is left in the car. (I had in... |
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08-03-2011, 02:00 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| Michael wrote: [quote]But I don't believe that 'feminism' can address inequalities that hit men[/quote]
I guess that is precisely why it has 'femin' in the name.
[quote]In my opinion, we need a ... |
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17-05-2011, 04:17 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| Thanks seeformiles for you last comment. I too see feminism as all embracing.
Rereading the posts again I am now completely confused by Michael's post. So probably missing the point completely aga... |
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18-05-2011, 11:57 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| Surely once women have equal opportunities in all respects to men, men will have the same opportunities too.
On a more serious side that is one definition, and lot of feminsts will add 'and men' a... |
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19-05-2011, 10:22 AM |
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Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts
| The thing that strikes me is how we all look at ourselves first. The plans so far are cutting at all levels of society, and it seems to me we bikker about who will be hit harder and almost enjoy the p... |
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08-10-2010, 02:37 PM |
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Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts
| Willy,
to fund two children at a cheap nursery(if you can find one) you need about 30k pa gross and 40k for some in FH area. If this leaves you with 5k after the childcare costs are paid. Pay tax at ... |
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08-10-2010, 04:45 PM |
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Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts
| As much as I am chuffed that my post provoked lively reaction, I am saddened that some have not understood my message.
For a start I wasn’t talking about my family, my apologies if the concise number... |
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11-10-2010, 09:19 AM |
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Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts
| mljay
and now here is my rant:
You don't buy a house with money you have - you get a loan.
You no longer get free university education - you get a loan.
If you happen to be a child you face consta... |
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11-10-2010, 10:52 AM |
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Thread: Family Allowance Cuts
Post: RE: Family Allowance Cuts
| Brian,
thanks for your comment. My sincere apologies. It wasn't my intention to be rude to our PM. This subtlety of English language has escaped me for a moment.
And I agree with you that benefits... |
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11-10-2010, 01:02 PM |
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