Threads that have stayed with you

the stables with the gate blocked by a car where the ?nephew?son? brother went out and had a teddybears picnic at the gate.

There was a relatively recent thread from a lady living in rural Japan.

She was married to a Japanese man and was pregnant, but was having real difficulties with the antenatal care available in her area - I don't think that she spoke Japanese.

She was considering coming back to the UK and didn't know what to do, one worry being that she wouldn't be allowed NHS care.

She was just within the time limit for flying but was very hesitant.

I remember giving her the details for the embassy in Tokyo and suggesting that they could advise on what would happen if she got back to the UK. When it seemed unlikely that she would leave Japan, I found the details for a British Doula in Tokyo who offers both personal support and online.

At that point, the thread disappeared.

I remember feeling how extraordinary the internet can be sometimes; I was talking to someone in rural Japan as though she were just a few streets away.

I do hope that things did work out for her - she seemed very alone.

"There is a tiny, elderly Korean lady in my garden and I want to go out" thread.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/2154580-There-is-a-tiny-elderly-Korean-lady-in-my-garden-and-I-want-to-go-out?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share

One where someone was fleeing a situation and a MNer went out to find them in the middle of the night.
Stayed with me as couldn't believe that someone would go out into the night to an unknown situation because of the say so of some words on the internet (yes it was a lovely thing to do, but come on, a bit 😮 )
Also the pigeon that got accidentally painted.
"Paul? Is that you?!" 🤣

There was a woman who washed her mooncup by holding it in the toilet and flushing it because the water used to flush was clean. Makes me feel queasy thinking about it.

Softzilla - Last thing I recall was that it had all got a bit sinister and the police were involved.

Someone is having sex in my hedge.

Snapped and farted.

The woman who got asked by another mum from the school WhatsApp (but who she didn't know in person) not to include pringles in her son's packed lunch because her own son was jealous.

The woman who was posting on here asking if she should go to A&E because her symptoms suggested Sepsis and afew posters told her she cant be that ill if she is posting online and not to waste A&E time

She didnt go to the hospital that night as advised on here and she passed away afew days later

The lady who was in a coercive and controlling relationship, pregnant with yet another baby that her husband had pushed for, she wasn’t allowed in some of the rooms of their house. Multiple threads and she ended up leaving him with tons and tons of support from lovely MNers
who were there for her and supported her as the scales fell from her eyes, without all constantly pushing her into something she didn’t want. He sounded like one of the worst woke-bro nicey nicey to his mates and colleagues guys who was utterly controlling, hypocritical and horrendous at home. MN at its best.

also, the GRAMMER POLICE.

The last paragraph - that still makes me chuckle. I think the lady was heavily pregnant and was getting her toddler ready to swim. As she walked out of the changing rooms into the pool area her husband pointed at her and yelled out, “Julie! Your minge!”
She forgotten to put her bikini bottoms on and couldn’t see down there anyway.

somebody else mentioned the lady who poured Johnson’s baby shampoo in her eyes to see if it really was tear free. That got mentioned a while ago and the poster who did the shampoo pouring actually came onto that thread and said it was her who did it. I think she was pretty embarrassed to admit it, but she was a good sport.

Tell me a random embarrassing thing that happened to you when you were a kid - www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/4683331-tell-me-a-random-embarrassing-thing-that-happened-to-you-when-you-were-a-kid

Brian from Hull and his offer of a yoni massage for the women of Mumsnet. Absolutely hilarious responses - “My Yoni says Noni” and a full thread

A lady with Lou in her user name. Her husband left her for a colleague and took the chutney with him. All kinds of lying and gaslighting going on from him.

It turned out she was pregnant with a much wanted baby and went on to have a little boy. Would be a good few years ago now, but I often wonder if they are both OK.

The foster carer who looked after the drug addicted newborn.

I remember a thread from a very ill lady. She lived abroad and separated from her partner, but he had a new partner and they all lived together i think. She was very ill and didnt have long left. Name was 5yearsleft or something like that. I wonder how she is. Her partner was awful to her.

HNRTFT but Pamela from Ireland..I think about her and her family every day.💕

I don't think it was a typo! I remember reading that in real time and thinking I'd misread it 🤣🤣

Elderly Korean Lady!

There was a thread about a time-slip in Liverpool (I think) and a suggestion that folks weren't trying hard enough or something if they didn't find themselves in the 1950s.

Oh my god thank you so much for this thread, I’m fairly new to mums net and didn’t know about the classics page. I’ve just been pissing myself laughing about a post called - to be embarrassed of my boyfriend- or something similar, but in it there’s a typo where she says she ‘snapped and farted’ the responses are hilarious!!

Please share link

I too miss Somerville. She was very lovely to me when I was going through an horrific divorce and we chatted via PM a lot. I think she's name changed and I hope she's doing ok ❤️

The one about what we did for our PFBs.....I still laugh remembering the woman who squirted Johnsons Baby Shampoo into her own eyes, to check it wouldn't sting her PFBs eyes 😄

Oh I remember this, I ever remember my own contribution to the thread which was that I took a wet cloth and a bottle of Milton to the playground to wipe the chain of the swing when my PFB had his first ever go! 🤦‍♀️

There was one just after I joined MN about 15years ago about people farting unexpectedly. I know it sounds purile but I was on the bus home and literally crying laughing. And I am not one who laughs out loud or spits coffee on my keyboard. I knew MN was a place I wanted to stay.
I often think of Lobster boy and also the mum who's trans child has gone away to stay with their partner and mum. I hope they are doing ok. And bless her heart, EarthMotherIAmNot, she was a wonderful woman.
And one of my favourites was the adorable toddler who was staying with a friend while her mum was away who slept in the dog bed and got up to all sorts of mischief. She had a lovely time. If anyone can remember I'd love a link so I can read it all over again! Aunty Buttons maybe?

The lady whose husband dried his entire body with a hairdryer every night after showering, which apparently took up to an hour. I remember reading that in bed and trying not to wake DH with my stifled laughter.