Hello to all --
I'm a newbie here on mumsnet but it's about time I started meeting people.
We moved here a few months ago from overseas; husband here for 2-yr job stint. I'm a SAHM -- Ds is 3.5 and a bit lonely from moving around etc. (and because this immediate neighbourhood doesn't have enough mums&kids I've met yet) but he's a major sweetie and I'm lucky in that regard. I need to meet other mums/playmates and make some friends. My location is good for the shops & station & buses (i.e. convenient for dh's commuting), for the Richmond Green & Park, & the Old Deer Park playground, etc. Our address sounds posh, but flat is tiny and surrounding streets appear to have only pensioners and/or rich people who can't be bothered. So I could use some company with regular people! With kids and everything!
Plenty of mums & kids going by near here every day, but generally everyone seems to be on their way to somewhere else (like the shops), since Normal People don't actually live here, apparently....
I have no car, but lots of buses about, going in all directions -- Sheens, Kew, Twickenham, Kingston, Putney, etc. And trains. So I can get about (at toddler speed), but need places to go, people to meet, things to do.
Also what sort of school/nursery ideas make sense for a 3.5 yr old who will be here just 18 more months -- and on a moderate budget (more moderate than a Richmond address probably usually implies, I gather!).
(this is not quite the sort of neighbourhood we live in back home...)
Anyway, I'd love to hear from anyone around the Richmond, Kew, North Sheen, East Sheen, St Margarets, Twickenham, Ham, Petersham, Kingston, etc. etc. areas. Hey, west London generally...
Thanks!
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YanksUponThames · 03/03/2006 16:26
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