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

So the child is being lied to by all of you.

My Dh ,Grandad came back from the second world war to two new babies ( born a year or sp apart) that couldnt possibly of been his
He just accepted it apparently

My Dh ,Grandad came back from the second world war to two new babies ( born a year or sp apart) that couldnt possibly of been his
He just accepted it apparently

My late grandmother, who was born in the Edwardian era, used to say the exact same thing!

I saw my neighbour (a man) looking very posh and dressed up in our local service station (like ready for a date posh). He had a bunch of red roses in his hand that he'd just bought. But his wife is away. He didn't come home that night. He didn't see me.

My grandmother’s father died in the First World War, whilst his wife was pregnant with Granny. Except when my aunt found his grave in France he died 11 months before Granny was born 😳

Are you a man or a woman?

Is the trainer a man or a woman 👀👀

A saying that you dont hear much anymore but oft repeated by my dear departed old DM
"There's nowt so queer as folk" 🤣🤣

My stepdad tried to get with my stepmum before he met my mum. My mum would divorce him if she found out I think.

I knew a guy who worked with my dad from Poland when I was a boy. A few years later dad told me he'd been a prisoner of war fighting for Germany as a volunteer...he was a really nice guy and a great father but...

Eh? How would spending time with his wife and kids lead to her snatching the husband? Assume that's what she meant by muscling in. I'd have thought the presence of the wife would be something of a hindrance!

Good God, people are weird...

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.

I have absolutely no clue at all and it was indeed a series of hisses. This was one of the clues that gave my old friend away, the student knew she claimed to speak it too…

When there's a will there's a way I guess. A lot of busy people will make time for an affair - look at politicians!

How can she "learn parseltongue"??? It's not real! In the books, it's just hissing!

Working as a Fanny?!

It’s not a secret as such but very much a small world sort of situation and one I felt absolutely terrible for afterwards for a while.

I’m an academic and basically one day was conversing with a second year student about adults who love Harry Potter. We were having a 1:1 discussion, thankfully not in earshot of anyone else. I told her I had a friend at secondary school who loved HP so much she filled her parents dining room cabinets with the Lego, figures, other merch etc and they all went to HP world in Orlando annually, she even learnt parcel tongue.

She asked whether I still spoke to her and I stupidly let slip that I stopped talking to her in my early 20s because she was having an affair with an older married man she worked with and he had a young daughter so I heavily disapproved. He left his wife for her and I just felt too bad for the daughter in particular so stopped talking to her.

When I said the last part, she asked me how old I was so I said 31 or whatever I was at the time. She then asked if my friend was called “Kate” and I was shocked, said yes- how did she know her? She said “she was my Dad’s first girlfriend when he left my Mum…” Turned out she was the daughter I’d felt bad for a decade prior. Could see the cogs going and she said “I didn’t know he had an affair”. I felt like such a twat.

I took her for coffee and cake and kept awkwardly apologising. I mean, I couldn’t have known but yeah. Basically either her mum didn’t know it was an affair either or they’d chosen not to tell her and I’d just blown the lid.

A housemate from uni is still with the same boyfriend she had when I knew her. Really sweet guy. We’re now nearing 40. She’d put off having kids for ages when a few years ago he told her he really wanted kids and if she didn’t he’d like to move on and find someone who did. So she said ok let’s try for a baby.

Unbeknownst to him she continued to take the pill while “trying” for several years. Then pretended she couldn’t face IVF and cried it was probably all her fault because she’d had an eating disorder and he felt too bad to push it. So they’ve now given up. I feel so bad for him.

Did your mum’s circle of friends and work colleagues not ask her how the baby was, what’s its name, etc? I presume she was still married to your dad at the time? What story did they give you—you can’t exactly hide a pregnancy from your children.

My sister’s son is the result of a long running affair with her business partner. Both of them are married. Neither spouse knows. She often takes her son to meet her business partner and his children in the park.

He was a nice, ordinary guy.

Had no idea that the two of them were actually having an affair.

They ended up getting divorced, not sure if the wife and mother ended up together!

My DM is my stepdad’s third wife. He had an affair with his 2nd wife while still married to the 1st wife . The affair produced a baby, and even though it was the 1980s and he went on to marry the mother and have more children together, they adopted the child out. Why? They thought it would look bad for their careers if there was proof they were sleeping together when he was married. None of my step-siblings know. The adopted out child is a full sibling to his 2nd marriage children, and a half sibling to his 1st marriage children. One day someone will do a dna test on Ancestry and it will blow up in his face. Mum got drunk and told me.

The pie story reminds me of a very early episode of Come Dine With Me where the hostess had arranged with the local gastro pub to deliver each course to her kitchen window during the evening.