Threads that have stayed with you

It's a long long time ago now but the one thread I still remember is ggglimpopo telling us her 2 year dd, Maude, had died suddenly. It was back in the days when it felt like we all knew each other and so it felt like I really knew ggglimpopo and her family.

Pamela, I hope her son and husband are as well as can be.
The sistine chapel.
The woman who heard the eerie music in her garden (I believe)
There was another where rags had been tied to a tree on her neighbours land.

Little red toothbrush’s thread/s the courage it must have taken that day. I hope she is well and would love if some day she popped up to give us an update on how she is doing.

Oh no. I ended up reading most of this thread last night and feel disturbed now.

As soon as I read the title of this thread I thought of Pamela. I think it was last summer and has stayed with me.

always wonder what happened to Ophelia Rose, who had quite a few threads, pre-Covid, about her husband leaving her and their twins for the OW, a colleague with whom Ophelia Rose believed he had "trysts" in the stationery cupboard, if I recall correctly. (I may have made that up, I have an appalling memory.) Ophelia Rose was hearbroken and had terrible trouble coming to terms with the breakdown of her marriage and her husband's behaviour. I think a fair few people thought she was making it up, but MN gave her the benefit of the doubt. I often think of her and hope she managed to move on after the shock

I still think about Ophelia and you can be sure that everyone there is one of these threads she’ll be
mentioned.

This one, and the one about someone's partner "T-Rexing" in Asda, made me howl.

Mrskoalabear (I think that was her name)

I think I joined about 10 years ago, and at the time there was someone who posted who had stepchildren, possibly her own smaller children, and was heavily pregnant. The stepchildren had some quite severe behaviour issues (deliberately urinating on furniture is the one that sticks in my mind) and she was having a hell of a time with them, IIRC their mum used to dump them and go AWOL for weeks on end so the kids were mostly with her and her DP/DH.

She split up with their dad, (I think she may have thrown him out as he was useless) and their mother basically didn't want them so she decided to keep them with her despite everything. I often wonder how it all panned out, I thought she was incredibly strong.

I really remember the Holiday home one - was it in Mexico? The owner arrived to find a friend/ family member had been staying there without permission! Bonkers.

The woman who’s husband had a garage/room? she wasn’t allowed to go into. The one where a Dh hadn’t sent off the forms for the 11+ entry exam and had lied about it (thats a LTB from me).

Never found out if that was true or not and if so what was in it. Sistine chapel (my all time favourite) , mexican house thief definitely.

This. Is. AMAZING 🤩

I think the lady you're talking about is expatinscotland. Someone has mentioned her threads a few posts above yours.

I think about her too. Her daughter would be a young adult now. Her posts were utterly heartbreaking, and I was in awe of how strong she came across.
I hope she has found peace, whatever that looks like after the loss of a child

Waves - I had hyperemesis too and I thought she was so strong. She was on the Isle of Wight I think with a horrible ex and a difficult pregnancy and other children.

MrsKoala - I was thinking of her last week. Definitely wonder how she's doing these days.

@@TheHangingGardensOfBasildon

Yes I have been thinking about the Turd Monster. We have one at work/or a regular visitor that blocks the loo with his monster turds, then puts lots of loo paper on top to 'hide' it. This happens weekly. I am always phoning maintenance and telling them that the usual toilet is blocked! Would love to know if Turd Monster number 1 is still doing this!

Mrs Devere and the neighbours shed in the garden. I was fairly new to mumsnet and it was the first really gripping long running saga that I remember. We are going back a few years now though.

Stingy hosts thread. It was so cringey, I couldn’t put it down!

There was one quite recently where a poster was away with her husband at a fancy dress party and had caught him back in their room having sex with another man. It got deleted and I kept wondering what happened. The last post she did was that she was wandering around the site wondering what to do.

The one about center parcs and anal sex.

According to the husband, having anal sex at centre parcs was a Mumsnet thing and he had got himself a bit worked up on holy and then all sulky and disappointed when it didn't happen.

sillygoof · Today 08:42
I remember one that ran to three or four threads but I either lost it or she left… I think she was Australian, and her teenaged son was being coerced by his girlfriend, not seeing his family or friends, not going to school. I wish I knew there was a happy ending there.

The girl dumped him and all was well!

There was a sad thread on here several years back where people were contemplating leaving their comfortable but not entirely satisfactory marriages. Often the DHs concerned were described as decent loving men but for whatever reason contributers were very jaded with life and felt that they had settled somewhat. It just made for sad reading.

Yes, poor Pamela. My mum was dying with the same illness at the time and it was so close to home. Pamela had such hope, I really wished she could have got better but it was too late.

I remember one that ran to three or four threads but I either lost it or she left… I think she was Australian, and her teenaged son was being coerced by his girlfriend, not seeing his family or friends, not going to school. I wish I knew there was a happy ending there.

Anyone remember a young woman who used to post - she was really hard up and mumsnetters donated loads of stuff to her for her baby. She used to post regularly and always had some issue going on. One time she posted a photo of herself with her “baby” in a baby carrier from the back view and you could clearly see that the “baby” was actually a teddy bear?

it was years ago but if i remember rightly it turned out that she had some major mental health issues

Also a thread "what's your stingiest experience as a guest??*

The stories that people told [whether true or not] were gobsmackingly shocking!