What's some --more-- juicy gossip that you can't share irl but can share with nosy strangers on mumsnet?

Having studied and then worked in a post graduate department this doesn't surprise me at all. IME there's so much shagging going on between staff/pre and post grads im surprised anyone has any time left to publish research 😅

I kind of like the idea that somewhere there is a little female commune with their house husband pottering around emptying the bins, cutting the grass and providing his services when required 😂

Oh yes, there is a mum at my childs football training who has started dressing up more, full face of make up, kinky boots etc to wear to training (when her husband isnt there) she is trying to crack onto one of the football.dads and has been "going around his house, spending time with his wife and kids to try to muscle in". Her words not mine. Kids football is a den of iniquity. We already have had one of the other mothers leave her husband for a coach (24yrs M) and was discovered by her then husband banging him dressed as Mrs santa after the kids Christmas party.

Like @03cg73 mum and her famous pie, my friend’s legendary lasagna is M&S with extra cheese sauce and grated cheese.

I’m the only one who knows. I saw the empty packets hidden when we went round for lunch and I was helping her. We laugh when people ask for her recipe 😁

Mum and Dad divorced when I was a kid, he moved 80 miles away and my siblings hadn't spoken to him for 40years when he died, I always did with exception of a few years when we had a fall out that later resolved itself when his 2nd wife told me what had been going on, or so I thought.

In his 80's, I nursed him through a terminal illness, his 2nd wife was too frail and had dementia. He was in and out of consciousness towards the end and doped up on morphine.

He started a conversation about his life regrets, the way he treated my mum, his multiple affairs (he left mum for wife 2) and included having split up with his 2nd wife for a while (all news to me) in the 80's. At that point he had a relationship and there was a child he had met a couple of times, he said his 2nd wife knew nothing about it as he drifted back into unconsciousness. I was shocked and my instinct was to shout him awake to tell me the rest but I didn't as I thought we had time. He lived for another few weeks but was out of it, he didn't know who I was and we never got to finish the discussion.

I wasn't aware he and his 2nd wife had actually split, I knew they had some problems and I'm assuming it was mid 80's when we had fallen out, it all fits with what happened at the time.

So I have a half sibling somewhere, no idea male or female, name or when born (other than poss mid 80's) or who to. Couldn't say ask stepmum who he was with as she was in lala land and as older people do they had drifted away from their friends or they had already died. The only person who may have known was his older sister and she had advanced dementia and has since died. Never told my brother and sister, didn't want them to be struggling with the idea like I do.

I am on DNA website and hope someday someone will pop up.Its good to be able to write it publicly, only my husband and best mate know. I'd like a younger sibling!

A school friend is in a very long term relationship with a pair of identical twins.

They deny it if people ever ask and these days try to be more low key but people that have known them since school know. He even changed his name an everything.

The lady across the road sells drugs when her husband is at work.

Oh we (as in my immediate family) all know it’s not her who makes the pies. It’s the extended family as in aunties and uncles/cousins/grandparents that don’t know. Mums side of the family is huge and they are very big on family parties.

a huge table is set out for food and people bring a pot of chilli or a pot of curry for example, it all gets set out and people just help themselves

years ago mum was hosting a party, my aunties asked her if she’d made the steak pie and for some reason mum said yes. People kept saying how good the steak pie was all night and then she kept being asked to bring it to parties. It’s been going on for over 10 years now. She gets the fear everytime she goes to buy them incase the butchers has none left 😂

That is a common misconception. 10% of men cannot donate body parts to their child. Only approx. 2% of the children have a different father than the one everyone thinks is the father.

My best friend's dd dated my ex colleagues ds, that's how I found out.
The ds had had a huge fallout with his parents, and ended up moving in with my friend's family for a couple of weeks.
I don't know what the fallout was about, but he went totally rogue and told my friend everything.

I really felt for him and the other kids. He said that growing up, they were never allowed to mix with other kids, as they had their siblings.
Weren't allowed playdates, parties etc as the parents didn't want to have to return the favour.
They grew up very isolated, all to keep the secret 😒

That doesn't surprise me.

My dad (now long retired) was a plumbing and heating engineer, he had a long contract with a local diocese.

He didn't have a good word to say about many of the vicars for one reason or another but one in particular used to make his skin crawl, he said there was just something very off about him and he often had young South East Asian boys from a charity come a stay with him, this was way back in the 80's. One day dad had to work inthis vicar's bedroom and had to move a load of furniture to get to some pipes and there he found a huge pile of gay porn magazines.

Have you never reported it? I would report anything which involves the exploitation of women without hesitation.

Yes, you've explained it better than I did.

I used to work in a sex shop when I was a student. We had a regular customer who was very into the gay rubber fetish scene, and his interest was certainly very extreme in the sense that it was at the weirdest end of the scale.

One day I was flicking through the local paper and saw his face. Turned out he was a pastor at a very strict local Baptist church. He'd led protests against theatre shows he considered immoral/pornographic and was also against sex education in schools.

No, I meant that she might work it out e.g if blood types are incompatible. Very slim chance, but you never know. Or if he needs treatment a relative might provide e.g. a transplant, but again slim chance.

I agree it sounds implausible but I believe the friend/hostess who witnessed it. She really isn't a bullshitter or shitstirrer, she's very "call a spade a spade" and get things out in the open, so I really don't think she could have made it up. Her instinct was to tell his ex (our friend) but hesitated and asked us (the other friends) what we thought and we agreed there was no benefit in her knowing.

Yes he was/is an ostensibly straight man, very flirty with women, a bit of a philanderer which is why I was so shocked. Not someone I expected to be interested in willies at all. But from other comments on my post it seems this isn't unknown for ladies men types. I've obviously led a very sheltered life!

I have 5 half siblings that don't know I exist. They live mostly in the same small rural village, unless some moved recently that I don't know of. It's a few hours away, I have never been but I could turn up any time any day and within minutes probably locate them and blow their world apart. But I don't and never will. I've never even looked them up online although I know their names. I might get more curious some day but for now I'm happy to let things lie. I don't really mention it in real life so it's nice to post it here to strangers.

Surprised the randy bugger hasnt had a heart attack having to service 4 women 🤣🤣

My 18YO autistic dd is falling in love with her first boyfriend (19YO also autistic).

It is very love on the spectrum and super cute but she won't talk to me and would be horrified if I spoke to anybody else so I cannot speak to anybody about it IRL.

My absolute best friend knows but that’s it out of our non naughty friends. We’ve made loads of friends on ‘the scene.’

Mumsnet definitely needs a shocked face reaction or at least a 'WTF have I just read' button

I was beyond shocked - it’s like something you read but never actually think happens

She’s my other half’s sister - ie say her name is Jane she’s married to John and kissed John’s brother Kevin

Yes. They behave perfectly normally when in public. It’s so uncomfortable for me though. I tend not to be around them much and luckily the “kissing” brother doesn’t tend to be invited along much to family gatherings

I suspect my parents neighbour has been having an affair with a local woman, for the last 10 years he's been living there.

He is single but she is married with kids my own dc age (that's how I know her).

She is well known in our area and I know many people who are friends with her but obviously it's a 'not my circus, not my monkeys situation' but I often wonder how long this went on before he moved next door to my parents and how long it will continue, you hear of people having affairs for decades, maybe this is one of those?

Do your non sensible friends know? Have you made any friends through swinging or is that a very naive question 😭?