My son will be starting secondary school in September this year. So towards the end of last year we spent a lot of time reading up on the policies of our and adjoining London boroughs, visiting schools, and finally applying. The application works like this. You can name up to six “preferences” (not “choices”, note). [...]
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@devilgate on Twitter- devilgate: My blog: Youssou N’Dour, Philip Glass, The Kronos Quartet, and Bela Lugosi http://bit.ly/dxOR4e 2010-07-29
- devilgate: Tortoise was from two doors down, & has now been passed back. Beautiful creature, & didn't pull in legs & head when I picked it up. 2010-07-27
- devilgate: The tortoise in my garden. #Hackney #E5 http://twitpic.com/296ull 2010-07-27
- devilgate: There's a tortoise in my garden! Anyone in #Hackney #E5 lost one? 2010-07-27
- devilgate: Government is replacing the Serious & Organised Crime Agency with a new agency to fight serious & organised crime. What?!?! 2010-07-27
- devilgate: I thought the Boris hire scheme was due to go live today. I pass 5 hire points on way to work, & there wasn't a single Boris at any of them. 2010-07-26
- devilgate: @Reynolds Nah, it's all right: we don't do queues in pubs. Anywhere else, yes, but not pubs. 2010-07-26
- devilgate: @brunns It's got a 9.75 too, of course. 2010-07-26
- devilgate: Aargh! I've just noticed that my iPhone changed "dreich" to "drench" in my last post!!! Making it both an ethnic word AND a grammar failure! 2010-07-26
- devilgate: Even on a drench, drizzly day like this, you can't beat #cycling for getting to work in #London. 2010-07-26