if I find people like me slightly annoying...

I went to an attachment parenting meet once, when I was a naive, hormonally-messed up wretch of a first time mum who did such needy-arse things.

I'm not strictly an AP-er, but I was going through a real 'fuck the Baby Whsiperer and her evil routines' phase and met a like-minded mum who was a member of this group. and invited me along They were the most horrible bunch of bitches ever. The premise for the formation of the group was (supposedly) the hostility they faced from the Gina-Ford following, anti BF-ing, 'co-sleeping kills' brigade...yet ALL they did was sit around bitching about those horrible, misguided people and being unbelievably smug about their own choices. It was truly awful, and the folliwing day, i went back to my local one o'clock club with my tail between my legs, had a jammy dodger and a nice cup of tea with non-organic milk & 3 sugars, and had a bit of a chat about Huggies versus Pampers. The blessed relief!

Coming back to the OP, I think the problem was that these weren't just tofu welders, they were tofu welders who couldn't get on with the non-welders and hence had to have their special group.

I mean, why would you need to have a 'sling meet'? I use slings but don't see that as marking me out from other people.... maybe I should arrange a Mothercare Jive stroller meet as I have one of those as well? (but only the same pattern as me - not interested in people who have the a green one or a pink one, obviously.)

PMSL @ 'bit of a nutroaster'. Is it only me who thinks that sounds like a form of sexual deviancy?

Were lovely today.Paased a car full of Czech tourist on road to Bethesda clicking away madly at them thar hills.

I miss those darn mountains.

Am in The Smoke now. (sigh).

Booboo,I live near Bangor.No sling meets in these parts (yet...)

What the hell is a slingmeet??

I'm a right old hippy but don't take meself too seriously and happily mingle with consumers of nuggets Fruit Shoots and Lunchables.

Crusty types are good entertainment value though eh?

lol@Pirategirl

They were a gift from a man who is now an ex (and has been for about 10 yrs). Ah...the days when I was young and received gifts of shiny red shoes, eh?!

p.s. I secretly love Totnes. The people can be a bit annoying, but at least they're peace-loving, green annoying types. It could be worse (like, um, confrontational, wasteful annoying crackhead types a la Hackney!).

see, see, Loveangel lol

yep Totnes, love it but god, just follow your own chill ethos people.

I was doing the unrecycling wey b4 he left, just things like opening tins YES TINS, and chucking the lid inthe normal bin.

Well he was far more interested in his 'path' than ours!!

He is now shacked up with a wanton, grubby, mother earth type, who allows him to have half of the devon hedgerows festooning the dashboard of the car.

I digress, where did you get those shoes btw

You need to get yourself a dog Bohemianbint. Lowers stress levels and lifts the spirits

Pirategirl PMSL@ 'un-recycling' after ex left!!!!

My uncle lives in Totnes. I was once part of an impromptu live comedy sketch on that main street / hill that runs through the town, when a little girl tugged at her mum's fairtrade, ethically-produced, hand-weaved jumper, pointed at my shiny red high heeled shoes and said REALLY LOUDLY 'Look, mummy, they're leather! Urgh! That's dead cow!'.

I resisted the urge to wedge my stiletto into her big toe. Brat.

Pirategirl: that is, like, so gnarly.

What all those serious types need to realise is, if there is anything in this world you need to have a sense of humour about, its parenting (fgs, you have to be able to find it amusing when dc throws up on your fifth clean top of the day/when your dc throws up for the fifth time on the top you've had on all day because, quite frankly there was no point changing it - see above)

yes dagger looks when you say you took yuor child to an 'alopathic' doctor, and not the local homeopath who charges a weeks wages for a miniature bottle of alcohol.

chill man

Thank you pointydog I try my hardest (when I'm tired of being smug and eating lentils.)

Out of all my friends with babies, I am the only one who uses reusable nappies (not all the time tho ) and they all think I'm mental. Wouldn't have it any other way.

pirategirl: I used to live in Bangor in North Wales, which has a similar vibe (dude). Like you, I agreed with the principles, but felt stifled by the humourless worthiness.

'What, you mean you don't grind your own wholemeal flour?' etc...

hehe. you're using the wrong definition of "like me" I think.

I do cloth nappies, home cooked food etc but I think some hippyish parents are absolutely unbearable. I'd rather talk to a "normal" disposable user any day.

I go to a great baby group, some use cloth, a couple use slings, some cook, some use jars, about half an half with breastfeeding/formula, mix of part ime wohm and sahm as well.
It makes for more interesting conversations and I learn new things, I have nothing to talk about with people who do everything I do (apart from, aren't we great!)

ooh good thread,

I am a bit of a nutroaster too, yet I am intouch with 'reality', as such, and altho it can be quite uplifting to be friends with like minded people, there is sometimes the feeling that I daren't say the wrong nonpc thing!!

I can laugh at myslef, and have a good grip on living in 'this world', whereas soemtimes fellow weavers, can be, well, boring in their attitudes, and far too serious.

I live near Totnes, which is a very hippy place in south Devon, and tbh, its sooo intense, i dont think i could live there.

I do respect (here i go) other's views, but it really can be yawnsome, and too green.

Before my (alpro for me)dh left me, I found myslef rejoicing in un recycling stuff he'd re cycled, lol, how defiant!!! Well, there's only so much a girl can take

this is soooooooo funny!! marigold remember your birth pmsl profound impact well your here on earth !!! or is that the question ??