Threads that have stayed with you

I 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.
The one I absolutely loved was the Pelican bollards for parking spaces on the Isle of Wight.

A lady who was pregnant with child number 4 or 5 and had a complicated family situation. There was an ex involved. The lady was so loving and she was going to give up the baby for adoption. She didn't in the end. It was a very emotional thread and everyone was cheering when she'd decided to keep her precious baby 👶 💗

That may of been me .. with the support and advice I received here nearly five years ago I fled in a hire car I had hidden from him and left while he was out. I purchased a red toothbrush on the way as it was symbolic to my dire situation.

The threads by babynamechange where her child was allegedly being sexually abused by XH but the courts had ruled the overnight visits were to continue. I’ve always hoped it wasn’t real

The thread where a poster had lost a stone out of her ring and another mumsnetter retraced the OPs steps and found it!

Oh and there was one where someone wanted a particular (cuddly?) toy for their child for Christmas and an army of MNers got one and got it to her. I don't think it was available online so someone went to buy it from a shop near them, passed it onto another MNer etc.

I wish I paid more attention to usernames etc.

And the recent one about parkrun hogging local parks which got to 1000 posts really quickly!

This thread has sparked a few memories:

The mum with high needs kids who had frequent crises - did she also post as hedgehog something?

Jennywren

Not so memorable but one where a poster worked at a garage (reception) and everyone but her was invited to a colleague's wedding.

There was also one about a woman thinking her husband was having an affair with a work colleague (maybe they owned the business) and she was going to turn up at the office - I may be misremembering that one.

Any of the parking on my drive threads where the poster blocks the CF in and goes out for hours - that always makes me laugh :)

The one where the poster had a cactus with a Santa hat on and was asking for suggestions/trying all sorts of ways to get the hat off said cactus - the OP's updates and attached pictures of said 'Crimbo cactus', as another poster referred to it, had me absolutely in stitches. Still go look it up from time to time just to have a laugh.

Also the one with the lady whose auntie bought her a whole set of personalised items with OP's face on. I think there was a cushion, a full-size canvas, a mug and a whole bunch of other personalised gifts all with OP's photo on them. I think OP said her auntie had good intentions but when I think of that thread i think of walking into someone's house for the first time and seeing that they've kitted out their livingroom with their own face on every item in the room.

Yes! Wow, you’ve got a good memory!

I don't know if this has been mentioned but the thread one Christmas about M&S picky bits - it was hilarious as the OP just asked a simple question about what to get and got absolutely slated for calling it "picky bits"

i think of her often too. Such a heartbreaking and worrying situation.

The Savernake Forest thread was actually about a house in one of the Manningfords (M Bruce or M Bohune etc) so although it was in the same county as SF, it's not near there at all.

SF is as creepy as hell though. I am from that area and it has a creepy rep.

I remember the thread where the wife found a skull in the garden and the husband put it in the dishwasher to clean it and it disintegrated completely and turned to sludge. I think it turned out that their newbuild was on top of an ancient graveyard and their neighbours garden has loads of burials in it while theirs just had the head of this body in it.

Poor Pamela, I read her threads and felt such hope that she might get to the other side of it and was heartbroken when I read the update that she had passed away.

MrsKoala? She was an infamous MNer…

This was years ago, a poster had two boys (and possibly a girl), the boys both had incredibly complicated eating issues and she seemed to struggle massively with them. She had a lot of other stuff going on too.

I remember a thread where (names made up) Annie and Bill were married. Bill previously married to Claire. Claire dying. Annie and Bill had agreed to care for Claire & her family in their home until she died, and then would continue to care for, not only Bill and Claire's shared children, but also Claire's child(ren) from a subsequent relationship

I remember thinking (1) sad story, (2) how impressive that Annie and Bill had offered to do this and (3) wondering what I would do in that situation

Does anyone remember a thread from a man whose wife was seeing a therapist who had convinced her she’d been abused by her father as a child. Everything seemed to point to it being a false memory but she totally believed it and it was wrecking her family life. The poster had been investigating the therapist and thought he was a charlatan. It may well have been a troll thread but the poster seemed genuine, and at his wits end. They had a son that the wife was neglecting because of her perceived trauma.

I enjoyed the CANCEL THE CHEQUE thread. It had everything, a CF wedding story and posters who kept on posting without checking for updates from the OP. Followed by wails of RTFT.

The troll threads about the lady with a sick child stays with me. She had multiple threads and posted partial photos of her child. I think there was twins involved somewhere, which is always a bit of a give away. I wonder about her motivation.

The kids company threads fascinated me, Munmsnet sleuths.

I am currently on the Neil Gaiman threads on FWR. I used to be a fan and when I see the threads go quiet, I post on them. Mumsnet has a power, sometimes it is very, very small, sometimes more significant to influence. That's important.

Does anyone remember Whiskychaser? The thread about giving a daughter's friend a lift?

Amazed no one has mentioned Mexican house thief… that’s an old one but one of my faves!

The one years ago where someone posted about her 12 year old being in a relationship with a 16year old. Loads of posters gave out advice along the lines of "you won't be able to stop them" "she's better off sleeping with him in your house than behind the co op" "make sure she uses protection".
OP would not be told that at 12 a child cannot consent to sex and that actually this was a safeguarding issue. I often think if that poor girl.

I’ve been thinking a lot about Pamela and her brave fight against gallbladder cancer. I think it was a year ago. Her husband and son are still in my thoughts, as was Pamela herself. She seemed like such a wonderful woman.

Also, the little boy who was diagnosed with a brain tumour, after his mum pushed for an MRI. She was called back to see the consultant after a few days following the scan. Her little boy has been so brave (he was on a TV programme too, if I recall)

PurpleLampshades and GoJetterBoy always stayed with me. Humbling and eye opening

I often look to see if Pamela's husband has updated . I'd love to know how he, her so and her mu are getting on.
Also the mum of the little girl, I think her name was Maude who had Glioblastoma

Thank you for the cringeworthy thread. I’ve only just started looking at it it’s already making me laugh. I do feel like MN has lost a lot of its humour in recent years.

I did enjoy the thread about the ex-husband who took his children camping and they ended up eating badger in the woods. It had the classic “did he order from the sett menu?”

I sat in a really tedious work meeting and just laughed all day to myself about the geniusness of that joke