I could also do the 26th anywhere in Worthing really. I live in West Worthing so anywhere in the 'West End' is closer for me.

Hi hilaryt1 - sorry haven't replied - looking after a sickly dd with a hideous cough and a voice like Bob Hoskins. Very perculiar hearing a very gravelly 'dadadadada' coming from the cot.

I've been useless about arranging meet ups - been trying to get childcare sorted after fuck-up with nursery. Am around on Wednesdays though if you fancy it.

Re the 5th - gah! at ILs that day to meet 150 year old long lost relative (something like that anyway). Would rather be glugging wine in Brighton

glad you are coming Oneopinion, rest of you fancy Sat lunch?

scratch that, it's on a 1.30pm at donatellos on 5th, would want to have a wine or five.

hey ladies - i notice there is a meeting in Brighton on the 5th -

i could run a car over (thinks, maybe should ask the brighton ladies first)

Hello, I'm a Worthing mum with a 13 month old boy. Would love to meet up with people particularly on Wednesday and Thursday days as I don't work then. Moved from Yorkshire to London to Brighton and finally to Worthing. Anything happening?

Hello oom - I'll scuttle off and look at my diary and post here tomorrow as dh is dropping heavy hints he wants to get on here (the computer I mean not mumsnet - least I think he means the computer)

hello folks, have been very broke busy on mumsnet

hello Makedo - i went back to parklife - fab Cakes/ chocolate with marshmallows!

Teething gngngngn - non stop pointless yelling for a week now and not so much as a tooth to show for it. Babies!

if makedo can bear to hear me waffle on again,

hows saturday the erm...

5th september (better for those paid early month)

26th September(a bit in the future i know, but it gives more time for me people to notice this thread and decide they want to come!)

and food option

1) All-you can eat chinese (£14 per head Fortune Inn)

2) Tapas @ Picassos

3) did someone recommend the Mahraj? sounds good Currylicious.

votes on dates/food please.

i vote for 26th and Mahraj as haven't been there before.

brilliant - just let me know when

Hi Popi70 - welcome! We'll definitely do something. I'm just trying to sort bedtime as it's gone a bit awry over the last couple of weeks (teething).

Worthing seems to be full of mothers who have moved from outside who don't know anyone - I know so many through baby groups (I moved here when I was pregnant). Wonder why it is?

Maybe you should do a guided tour oneopinionatedmother

...or evenings...

hi there,
I've recently moved to worthing from oxford with a 2 yrs old. I don't know anyone in the area as I work in brighton. Unfortunately I work f/t but let me know if you get to meet during weekends

correction toby tiger left at sistrs three-wheeler not in car..

blue baby, grey graco 4-wheel pushchair

looking at parklife website..yummy cakes!

my ish generally means later, as have just got back from rare evening in Brighton very late.

I am always late..the baby is normally good but can sense when i am going out and his impatient howls make me forget everything (nappies, wipes, babygro - it was so easy when it was just purse and keys)

i plan to write a long letter to a friend whilst there so should be around annoying the staff with my lack of spending for a while.

no doubt I'll forget a pen though...

oom - if this cold I have (convinced it was swine flu over the weekend - but have to admit it is just a cold - and a really meek one at that ) has not got any worse I'll toddle along and say hi. FMI - are you 'ishes' early or late when it comes to time? Will I miss you if I turn up 20 mins after 10ish?! (not that I'm always late or anything )

missleslieanne - welcome back! My baby brain is awful - I recently took my mascara into town with me instead of my mobile. When I got home I found my mobile in my makeup bag. The annoying thing is it always happens around a particularly efficient mum from my postnatal group. I know she thinks I'm an absolute fool

baby brain understood, i keep on forgetting simple words like 'nap' and 'car' and call everything 'thingy'...

though my plan has changed: my toddler is being babysat for a few days coming back tuesday afternoon-

so if anyone feels like coffee, I'll be in worthing Parklife tuesday morning @ 10 o'clockish with a six month boy (in very cute toby tiger stripey outfit, and graco three-wheeler)..even if no-one else goes it'll be a real novelty to be in town with just one baby and be able to read a book in peace (hastily touches wood incase DS decides to have a case of the screaming mimis).

I'm such an idiot! i didn't realise I'd already posted in this thread - oops!! Lets blame the baby brain :D

So... did anything get sorted meeting up wise? Did I miss out on the chance of grown up conversation and/or cake at Parklife?? Hope not!!

Hi!! Add another worthing mum to the list
My little man is only 3 months old though - do I still count? ;)

ah well ladies, Ive lived in the area since age 14, all efforts to escape (and I've made a fair bash at it) have failed, leaving me with the worst of both worlds, ie I don't have roots here, but I don't anywhere else either.

horizontal on sofa...long may it last.

slam door trains..fond fond memories of sleeping through my stop at Lancing and walking home from Worthing three sheets to the wind. Why is the last train so sodding early -still? It was the same 15 years ago!

@ makedoandmend. if you fancy tuesday afternoon coffee - lovely.

excellent

Easily done custardo - I remember, in the days of the slam door trains, seeing a drunk open the wrong door of the train, thinking he was stepping onto the platform and just falling onto the track in Wiley Coyote comedy stylee (luckily there was no train coming). I remember thinking at the time - there but for the grace of God...

Definitely up for some sort of tapas/curry - any type of wine food really.

the mahraj nepalese is the best place for a curry imo - and you gurka beer ! BONUS.

always up for a tapas though

i'd love to get a bit merry in worthing - the brighton girls are great but getting back shitfaced is an ordeal

i did fall of a train once - it was at the platform i hasten to add

What age is the Ark for clarerw? I got the impression it was over 1s is that right?

Good grief oneopinionatedmother - your very knowledgeable on Worthing restaurants - I could have done with your wisdom when I was pregnant and moved here. It's a bugger trying to get to know the good places to eat in a new town. I'm definitely up for meeting up for an evening and trying one out - but also still up for cake coffee too.

Next week (coffee wise) am free Mon pm, Tuesday all day (still haven't found anything to do on a Tuesday), Wed pm, Thurs am.

On a related matter - can anyone recommend any groups for under ones? I'm going to go to gymbabies as soon as dd decides to sit on her own (like her mum she's happiest horizontal on the sofa), Tabernacle on Wed and Thursday stay and play in East Worthing (until I go back to work when it will clash).

Have you explored all the playgroup/babygroups that worthing has to offer

ah well, i am ahem a worthing area person so actually live in the arse end of nowhere beautiful village of Sompting

I've tried our local babygroups but find trying to get to know other mums whilst my toddler is trying to hand them toys (nicely, but annoyingly) and the baby is, well, there, rather difficult.

St James the less has a nice selection of Mums, and I hear Baby Boundstone is good too, ..i proabbly should make more effort really, as the toddler is reaching the age where she might actualy play with others rather than just near them.

casa ciro (seafront)is very cheap nice and Ask (montague st) i seem to remember being fun too. There's the Tex-mex on the other side of town (next rose & crown) that has phenomenal cocktails decent food (in monster portions). actually Picassos in Ann Street is pretty fine if you lke tapas (and indeed Spanish wine)

of course The Mahaan is pretty much unbeatable for a curry. Then there's the Thai place (if its still there)...

Thanks makedoandmend, but can't do the tabernacle tomorrow as working, but went to the Ark last week and was nice, just miles away....another time I hope....

Ooh I get all misty-eyed at the idea of pubs and restaurants - I'm sure dh could cope ring me every five minutes for one evening.

How are you entertaining the kids during the day oneopinionatedmother? Have you explored all the playgroup/babygroups that worthing has to offer?

laughing at makedo and mend..

so true! i could cry ....i went and had a lemonade in a pub at lunch, just to see if it was possible with the kids there.
it was possible. It wasn't fun though...

ah sweet sweet bottles of wine, just like I used to get pissed on enjoy

well la-di-da

I'm sure we can do something akin. Although a nice restaurant. In Worthing?

doesn't have to be in the evening or in a pub - the brighton ladies do it in styel doncha know -nice restaurant - bottle of wine - ladies who lunch - i call it getting pissed - but they are more refined

You'll be the first to know custardo. God a pint! In the evening! In a pub! On my own! <<faints with the very idea>>

if ever you are just going to get a bit pissed let me know. - i don't do kids - but i do beer and good company.

AAaaagh! Sorry Something has now come up on Thursday (going back to work-related) - so this week now out. Will post again later when I've sorted out my diary. Gah!

Oh clarerw - the Ark and the Tabernacle are two different things as far as I can see. The Ark is on in Broadwater (Church of Life I think) while the Tabernacle is opposite the Town Hall. I'm going tomorrow for the first time if you'reinterested - it's on from 10 (I'll have a black Loola Buggy and a small blondie/reddie/but mostly baldie 7 month old). if you spot me say hi!

Excellent - Parklife is on Bath st I think - down the side of H Samual and Top Shop. i'll double check that (sorry mind has gone blank - it's the weather).

Parklife - is that on the Steyne? or the one near the hospital?
Thursday fine hopefully

Thursday next week is good for me, and happy to give either venue a go. I'm sure a Parklife cake would keep one or both of mine quiet for a few minutes at least....

Welcome Totally - the more the merrier!

clarerw - i think it's the same one - I'll check with a mum I know who's just started going. I know there is also one in East Worthing also (surprise surprise) on a Wednesday - it's called Cupcakes I think - I've met a couple of people with three year olds who go.

Is Thursday good with everyone? How about Thursday 16th? Does anyone have an idea for a venue? If it's sunny I usually end up at Parklife for the cakes sandwiches. The Dome is also quite pushchair friendly downstairs or upstairs. Any other ideas?

Can i join please,i have a 2yr old and moved here 2yrs ago

I work part time but Thursdays are good for me. I am just west of the town centre.
Is the Tabernacle group called the Ark? I was flicking through the family grapevine online and noticed it.
I suspect it will get a bit easier to go to some more playgroups and stuff when 4 yr old starts school in Sept,he's a bit old for some of them...he's not always that interested in me having civilized cup of tea and chat either!!!!

Hi all - sorry been unable to properly get to the computer all week due to dh monopolising it.

Excellent news oom - it would be easier for me if it could be an afternoon with baby - evening is ok but dd's bedtime can be a bit more flexible than I would like at the moment due to either me being useless or dd being difficult - not sure which

Hello clarerw - another one! To answer your question - apparently the one at the Tabernacle is good (it's where I'll be taking dd when we finally get chucked out of post natal - we should have left at six months but it's just so nice ) There seem to be quite a few on a Wednesday morning (annoying that they're all on the same day) There's a mag called the Grapevine which has all the groups in but I can't bloody find a new copy. Will bring my old one when we meet. Where in Worthing do you live? There are quite a few scattered around I think.

The only days not free really are Tuesday morning (try and usually don't succeed in making it to Baby Rhyme at Library) and previously mentioned Wed morn, oh and MIL visit on Fridays. So Monday/Tuesday/Thursday good for me.

Anyone else? Custardo/MLL you interested?

Hello all, I too moved to Worthing last year (from London) and definitely did divorce my social life I'm afraid!
I'd love to meet anyone in a similar position, I have a 4 year old and a 1 year old and am a little older than all aforementioned ages... Also, does anyone know of any good playgroups for under 5's?

'ello make do and mend.

yes indeed - fancy a cuppa cha in waitrose or somewhere ? (or indeed, a pint at the Vintners?)- i can turn up unbabied if it's just an afternoon. Though i understand unbabied time can be difficult to organise!

I'm 31 (and a half :P) and have 23 monther, a 6 monther, and a poodle. I am generally to be found with dog on lead, toddler on reins and baby in sling. (or more often, posting to alphamummy on timesonline)

problem organisation for me: we haven't organised our hol yet so could be any week out of the next three. so, if you guys set a date i'll be there so long as'm not on holiday....

Well that's four of us

Hi missleslieanne and oneopinionatedmother - good to know you're out there.

I'd be up for the Brighton meets but also maybe (hey lets be crazy) a meet in .....Worthing (I keep telling my Brighton friends that it's a lot cheaper than Brighton the new place to be...no really it is....no really)

Quick background - I'm a little older than missleslieanne - and have a 8mo dd.

god..i thought i'd divorced my social life when i had my babies and moved out to worthing area..will look for brighton meets!

Hello!! I'm a worthing mum! And I know what you mean - sometimes I feel like the only one!! :P
I'm new to mumsnet - I'm 29, have a little boy called Dylan who's nearly 10 weeks old & we'd LOVE to meet some other yummy mummies & babies!! :D xx

maybe they don't admit it!

i am positive that there was a worthing meet with kids - might haVE BEEN SOME TIME ago

Hi Custardo - that would be great thanks. I was beginning to wonder whether there were any MNers in Worthing - nobody I've spoken to seems to have heard of it

howdy - im in worthing - i go to the brighton meets. i could give you a lift

OK will look out for it. Thanks

it's usually every couple of months really

Hi Mabs - where do you meet? Can't do this Sat but if it's regular-like??

come over to Brighton Sat lunch, other worthing gals do sometimes

Haha! that figures. God I can't wait to move back to Brighton/Hove!

Anything going on in Worthing? Moved here last year when pregnant - now with an inquisitive seven month old. Anyone in the same position?