Protect My Baby, Protect Me
Monday July 20th, 2009
Noon - 3pm
Victoria Tower Gardens
Facebook 'virtual' Online Event
.Due to whatever rather ardent protesters attractive over Parliament Square for the past two months... and it looks same they'll still be there for added couple of months...
We've moved the borough Breastfeeding Picnic to Victoria Tower Gardens. In many ways, it's a better venue - not a roundabout on a hot and bowelless traffic heavy square. Cooling wind soured the river. Railed in. Nice tree cover. Traffic crossings! But it's not the super picture shoot possibleness of the Square. It does provide a pleasant side view of Parliament however.
Many thanks to the Royal Parks, for gift us permission. We're gathering on the crescent Atlantic as you enter the tract from the Parliament end, by the Pankhurst statue, and tucked behindhand the sculpturer sculpture. It's a pleasant stretch of grass, and the kids crapper separate free on the river side, as it is blocked soured by an shackle receipts to borough Palace itself.
Transport
Buses come into this Atlantic from every around. 3 and 87 kibosh on St Margaret Street by the park. The close Tube is Westminster. Which is a some hundred yards away, downbound Bridge Street. borough Tube is disabled accessible, so it has lifts from every levels, up to street level. The test little lift up to the street, is the Bridge Street exit. So buggies and strollers are dustlike from that approach. You literally emerge under the shadow of Big Ben. (And there module be tourists attractive photos.) You emerge into a rattling narrow and crowded paseo - so clutch children by hand first. You turn correct downbound Bridge Street, cross the road to the face of the Houses of Parliament, carry on downbound the whole length of the building, and the gates into the Park are on your left, as you walk past the test policeperson at the far modify gates.
You crapper wager every this in rattling good detail, on Google Maps, if you input Victoria Tower Gardens and click to 'satellite'. Zoom in, and you module wager that the Underground is rattling close. You module also wager the trees, statues, swings and Embankment seating.
Car parking is rattling expensive and street parking lethal to essay and get into. Disabled badges are not legal for double chromatic lines etc, in Westminster. However, if you tract crossways the river, you are in Lambeth, and blue disabled badges are legal there.
Amenities
Above borough Underground Station as you emerge into Bridge St, in the shadow of Big Ben, is a Tesco Express. It is a daylong thin corridor, stuffed with food, drink, crisps, chocolate, sandwiches and MP's 'run around people' elbowing the tourists discover of the way. The line is awesomely daylong looking (the length of the shop) but there is 5 or 6 tills at the end, and it goes fast. No mother should be in Westminster, and not know it exists. Equally, the danish pastries are at bambino clutch height.
The public toilets are stepped, and 50p, but hit a disabled commode they say. They are underground the green triangle of lawn behindhand Parliament Square and in face of the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre. However, six feet away, is Methodist Central Hall, which has a lovely restaurant and nicer, free, toilets. It's in Storey's Gate, crossways from borough Abbey. It has a aggregation of fancy pericarp steps, so if you hit a buggy, go for the disabled access entry to the left. The restaurant and toilets are digit take down, by the lift as you enter. Disabled commode excellent.
Ironically, the close commode and cafe, and a lovely 'wet weather' Atlantic is actually inside Parliament. borough uranologist is a astonishment to behold, bounteous sufficiency for bambino freedom, has toilets and a restaurant at that level, and has a fancy new path downbound to that level. Anyone crapper enter borough Hall, but you hit to go through personnel security. If you hit never been in, it is worth a look. If you appear to be part of the event in the Gardens, they haw respond you. So don't essay and enter with banners, badges etc. But if you hit instance to go through section (anywhere from 3 to 30 minutes) it is substantially worth a look. You crapper use a camera in there too.
Rules of Engagement
It is illegal to protest, shew or hold a feat within half a mile of Parliament. It is not illegal to hit a picnic, celebrate breastfeeding, and raise cognisance of issues as daylong as you hit received the comely permissions from the police. So, we are celebrating, and in doing so, raising cognisance of an issue close to our hearts - our breasts! ;-) The Royal Parks are modify stricter than Parliament Square, we can't modify hit a table, or any posters or placards AT ALL.
So we ask that no digit alter homemade placards or banners. Feel free to wear anything slogany you want to, in terms of t-shirts etc, but alter null for your safekeeping that looks same we are protesting.
We'd same you, if possible, to invite your MP to the picnic.
Things You Might Need
The grass is nice, there is whatever shade, you haw alter brollies etc. The wind soured the river crapper be sharp - so outer rain/wind wear reccommended, Just In Case.
Bring your picnic, and something pleasant to sit on the grass with. Bring a rubbish bag, for parcel up.
Bring cakes!!!!
If are a baby wearer, babies and younger toddlers best strapped to you. Older toddlers and teen children module need digit grown to digit child for eye-keeping on the side with the gates to the important road. But there is shack for a good separate most on the another side, and we'll endevour to keep the kids on that side. We module hit adults without kids there, and we module endeavour to support with games and letting them separate most for part of the picnic, but we cannot pronounce sufficiency that keeping the children safe is a priority.
You crapper alter soft balls for games for children under 5 etc. Good wind for kites. Very diminutive country with a couple of swings at far modify of tract area.
Bring cameras and take a aggregation of photos for our picture album.
Modus Operandi
The holiday is officially from noon, though there should be organisers there from most 11.30ish. Depends on traffic etc. We're looking for the important part of the holiday to build up to most 1pm, when press module hit been invited to attend, to provide people instance to relax from the trip. We were dead on our feet last assemblage by 3pm, so we module likely every be absent by 3.05! :-)
If you hit any particular special needs (such as knowing you are bringing a couple of travel kids and there is exclusive digit of you) email us and we'll provide you our mobile sound numbers in case you need support etc picnic@dreyfuss.demon.co.uk Also email if you crapper substance to help.
On that, if you are reaching and you are an grown without kids - please permit us know! We need a dedicated band of adults watching discover for the kids same a hawk! :-)
See you there!
EDIT: Final blog post with picture of where we are meeting.
We've moved the borough Breastfeeding Picnic to Victoria Tower Gardens. In many ways, it's a better venue - not a roundabout on a hot and bowelless traffic heavy square. Cooling wind soured the river. Railed in. Nice tree cover. Traffic crossings! But it's not the super picture shoot possibleness of the Square. It does provide a pleasant side view of Parliament however.
Many thanks to the Royal Parks, for gift us permission. We're gathering on the crescent Atlantic as you enter the tract from the Parliament end, by the Pankhurst statue, and tucked behindhand the sculpturer sculpture. It's a pleasant stretch of grass, and the kids crapper separate free on the river side, as it is blocked soured by an shackle receipts to borough Palace itself.
Transport
Buses come into this Atlantic from every around. 3 and 87 kibosh on St Margaret Street by the park. The close Tube is Westminster. Which is a some hundred yards away, downbound Bridge Street. borough Tube is disabled accessible, so it has lifts from every levels, up to street level. The test little lift up to the street, is the Bridge Street exit. So buggies and strollers are dustlike from that approach. You literally emerge under the shadow of Big Ben. (And there module be tourists attractive photos.) You emerge into a rattling narrow and crowded paseo - so clutch children by hand first. You turn correct downbound Bridge Street, cross the road to the face of the Houses of Parliament, carry on downbound the whole length of the building, and the gates into the Park are on your left, as you walk past the test policeperson at the far modify gates.
You crapper wager every this in rattling good detail, on Google Maps, if you input Victoria Tower Gardens and click to 'satellite'. Zoom in, and you module wager that the Underground is rattling close. You module also wager the trees, statues, swings and Embankment seating.
Car parking is rattling expensive and street parking lethal to essay and get into. Disabled badges are not legal for double chromatic lines etc, in Westminster. However, if you tract crossways the river, you are in Lambeth, and blue disabled badges are legal there.
Amenities
Above borough Underground Station as you emerge into Bridge St, in the shadow of Big Ben, is a Tesco Express. It is a daylong thin corridor, stuffed with food, drink, crisps, chocolate, sandwiches and MP's 'run around people' elbowing the tourists discover of the way. The line is awesomely daylong looking (the length of the shop) but there is 5 or 6 tills at the end, and it goes fast. No mother should be in Westminster, and not know it exists. Equally, the danish pastries are at bambino clutch height.
The public toilets are stepped, and 50p, but hit a disabled commode they say. They are underground the green triangle of lawn behindhand Parliament Square and in face of the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre. However, six feet away, is Methodist Central Hall, which has a lovely restaurant and nicer, free, toilets. It's in Storey's Gate, crossways from borough Abbey. It has a aggregation of fancy pericarp steps, so if you hit a buggy, go for the disabled access entry to the left. The restaurant and toilets are digit take down, by the lift as you enter. Disabled commode excellent.
Ironically, the close commode and cafe, and a lovely 'wet weather' Atlantic is actually inside Parliament. borough uranologist is a astonishment to behold, bounteous sufficiency for bambino freedom, has toilets and a restaurant at that level, and has a fancy new path downbound to that level. Anyone crapper enter borough Hall, but you hit to go through personnel security. If you hit never been in, it is worth a look. If you appear to be part of the event in the Gardens, they haw respond you. So don't essay and enter with banners, badges etc. But if you hit instance to go through section (anywhere from 3 to 30 minutes) it is substantially worth a look. You crapper use a camera in there too.
Rules of Engagement
It is illegal to protest, shew or hold a feat within half a mile of Parliament. It is not illegal to hit a picnic, celebrate breastfeeding, and raise cognisance of issues as daylong as you hit received the comely permissions from the police. So, we are celebrating, and in doing so, raising cognisance of an issue close to our hearts - our breasts! ;-) The Royal Parks are modify stricter than Parliament Square, we can't modify hit a table, or any posters or placards AT ALL.
So we ask that no digit alter homemade placards or banners. Feel free to wear anything slogany you want to, in terms of t-shirts etc, but alter null for your safekeeping that looks same we are protesting.
We'd same you, if possible, to invite your MP to the picnic.
Things You Might Need
The grass is nice, there is whatever shade, you haw alter brollies etc. The wind soured the river crapper be sharp - so outer rain/wind wear reccommended, Just In Case.
Bring your picnic, and something pleasant to sit on the grass with. Bring a rubbish bag, for parcel up.
Bring cakes!!!!
If are a baby wearer, babies and younger toddlers best strapped to you. Older toddlers and teen children module need digit grown to digit child for eye-keeping on the side with the gates to the important road. But there is shack for a good separate most on the another side, and we'll endevour to keep the kids on that side. We module hit adults without kids there, and we module endeavour to support with games and letting them separate most for part of the picnic, but we cannot pronounce sufficiency that keeping the children safe is a priority.
You crapper alter soft balls for games for children under 5 etc. Good wind for kites. Very diminutive country with a couple of swings at far modify of tract area.
Bring cameras and take a aggregation of photos for our picture album.
Modus Operandi
The holiday is officially from noon, though there should be organisers there from most 11.30ish. Depends on traffic etc. We're looking for the important part of the holiday to build up to most 1pm, when press module hit been invited to attend, to provide people instance to relax from the trip. We were dead on our feet last assemblage by 3pm, so we module likely every be absent by 3.05! :-)
If you hit any particular special needs (such as knowing you are bringing a couple of travel kids and there is exclusive digit of you) email us and we'll provide you our mobile sound numbers in case you need support etc picnic@dreyfuss.demon.co.uk Also email if you crapper substance to help.
On that, if you are reaching and you are an grown without kids - please permit us know! We need a dedicated band of adults watching discover for the kids same a hawk! :-)
See you there!
EDIT: Final blog post with picture of where we are meeting.
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