NappyValleyNet Spring Meet-Up, Thomasina Miers at Women’s Enterprise Day and Joanna Trollope at the MCT at Alleyn’s: Your What’s On activity guide from NappyValleyNet!

Dear NappyValleyNetter, 

Welcome to your weekly What’s On activity guide from NappyValleyNet!

Such a short month, February. This time next week it’ll be over. So good to see signs of life that mean a real change in the seasons. Green buds, longer days and lighters mornings all leave me full of the joys. Quite glad I wasn’t born in Scandinavia, Iceland or the Arctic Circle where it’s still mainly dark. Much more suited to the finer climes of Nappy Valley, me. Keep posting details of your classes, groups, workshops, performances, fairs and more. We love helping you spread the word (read more).

On the move? We have homes for sale and to rent in the neighbourhood and, should schools be on your radar, you’ll find a drop-down list of primaries so you can search for your new house in the right catchment area (read more).

Take a look at these homes from our Preferred Property Partners this week

For rent with Hamptons International is a 5-bedroom terraced house with excellent living space and a loft conversion with plenty of storage in the eaves, close to Earlsfield station and Earlsfield Primary, rated Outstanding by Ofsted (read more).

For sale with Rampton Baseley is a 5-bedroom double-fronted house just off Clapham Common Northside, arranged over three floors and in excellent decorative order with a great sense of light and space, a separate family room and a master suite including a fully-fitted dressing room (read more).

For sale with Marsh & Parsons is a 4-bedroom family house close to both Streatham station and Streatham Common, recently refurbished throughout with a private south-facing garden and no onward chain (read more).

For rent with Portico is a 3-bedroom period house close to Clapham Common and Clapham Junction, with a spacious double reception room and an extended kitchen/breakfast room, bright and airy and ideal for a family (read more).

Spring is in the air…try something new

The NappyValleyNet Spring Meet-Up is at The Bolingbroke next Thursday. Come and join us for coffee, cake and conversation and the chance to meet other parents in the neighbourhood. Rosalena are kindly giving us some gorgeous goodie bags so you’ll go away ready to glow, but do sign up in advance! (read more)

Women’s Enteprise Day is part of Wandsworth Enterprise Week soon where you’ll hear from some of the country’s most inspiring female entrepreneurs including Thomasina Miers, founder of the Wahaca chain of Mexican restaurants. It’s at the Central London Golf Club on Burntwood Lane and we have a pair of tickets up for grabs! (read more)

Bring Your Own Baby Comedy will be bringing a smile to many a parent’s face at the Clapham Picturehouse next week with some of the funniest stars from the TV and comedy circuit delivering adult humour while your sweet innocents roam, unaware of the jokes flying over their heads! (read more)

W&W Jewellery on Webbs Road are holding a free Design Workshop, a fun and informal session for mums to unlock their inner creativity and design a piece of jewellery that is so very them! It’s free, but book now to avoid an empty jewellery box (read more).

Gather your seven besties – or your seven brainiest friends – and head to Paul’s Supper Quiz Night at St Luke’s, a fun evening stretching the grey cells in aid of Paul’s Cancer Support Centre (read more).

Emily’s Family Workshops is running an Internet Safety Workshop for you to learn how to keep your children safe, understanding the dangers and setting up the controls on your iPads, iPhones and tablets (read more).

First Aid for Life is holding a Dog First Aid Course in Balham for anyone out there wanting to learn what to do in the case of an emergency or illness with your – or anyone else’s – four-legged friend (read more).

An Evening with Joanne Trollope is coming up soon at the MCT at Alleyn’s run by Village Books. Listen to the bestselling author talk about her thoughts on writing, her latest novel, An Unsuitable Match, and how she comes up with her storylines. They say there’s a book in us all.. (read more)

Small ones in tow?

Bach to Baby’s concert tomorrow is French Connections with the delicate melodies of Debussy and the elegance of Saint-Saens on cello and piano. Drift away to stroll serenely by the Seine…if only for a while (read more).

The next Nurturing Mums Postnatal Course starts on Northcote Road next week, four consecutive weekly sessions about life with a new bouncing baby where you can make local friends at the same stage as you and get non-judgmental advice on sleep, weaning and more. Courses starting in March in SW12 and SW18 too (read more).

It’s the Clapham NCT Nearly New Sale on Saturday with bargains galore to be had if you’re in the market for all things baby (read more).

Love glitter? Baby Loves Disco’s Glitter & Glow Party is in central London with two time slots on offer depending on how big your little groover is. Never mind the weather, never mind the rain…this is what Sundays in February are for! (read more)

And Becoming Mum is a workshop on Lavender Hill this weekend offering three hours to give you space, information, tools and inspiration for how to manage your wellbeing through the early days, with a goodie bag to take away too (read more).

School Open Days

It’s the Brambletye Senior Schools Fair this weekend, with many of the top independent schools represented all in one place, just a short hop on the train out of CJ (read more).

Brambletye Pre-Prep Open Day (read more).

Brambletye School Open Day (read more).

Elmhurst School for Boys Open Day (read more).

High View Primary School Open Morning (read more).

Oakwood School & Nursery Open Day (read more).

Oliver House School Open Day (read more).

Parkgate House School Open Day (read more).

Sydenham High School Junior School Open Morning (read more).

Sydenham High School Senior School Open Morning (read more).

Thames Christian School Open Morning (read more).

Wandsworth Prep School Open Morning (read more).

And finally…

Wash Doctors come to you to give your car a great clean, both inside and out, so if your wheels could do with a super-spruce, snap up this lovely 20% off and go sparkle your way around Nappy Valley (read more).

And don’t miss out on our brilliant collection of NappyValleyNet offers and competitions. Treats from holidays to home and exercise to food, glorious food! (read more) We’ve already picked one winner who saw hearts on Valentine’s thanks to Nife is Life. Happy days! (read more)

That’s it – have fun! (click here)

Love, 

Annabel & the NappyValleyNet team xx