Old posters you sometimes think of

[selfishteenagers]

I was wondering today about a few old posters that either left or I haven’t seen in ages
Riven , eatshitderek (i think that’s what the username was) and another one I can’t remember the full name ghost something who was in temp accommodation I think ?
Does anyone else ever wonder about posters they dont see anymore

I realise I have lost track of the original names of half the MNers I know

Me too

Leningrad was lovely. I do see her on twitter though.

She popped up in my local lesbian group when I moved house a few years ago. It's a very small world! I always forget there are so many of us that the chance of knowing a MNer in real life are pretty high, even if you don't meet them through MN.

(It is so nice talking to you as @BitofFun!)

Hey BitOfFun, we haven’t spoken in aaages! This thread made me go on a little trip down memory lane of Mumsnet and I was looking at some of Shiney’s old threads in General Health. I’m slightly cringing at my posting style back then but it was nice to reminisce over past posters.

Sorry to hear your sad news. 😨

PigletJohn is still being helpful.
Somebody asked was he still on Mumsnet.
Just the other day he helped me out on another thread.

Leningrad was lovely. I remember her from the MN Fantasy Football league 😂

I still miss GetOrf! Actually met her once and she was gorgeous, as well as clever and funny.

@Freelancegirl, I'm very flattered and a bit shocked that you remember me. I used to be mumof2teenboys, my son died when he was only 22. It will be 8 years ago at the beginning of July.
I posted in the very early hours of the day after he was found and was surrounded by so much love and support.

So sad to hear of so many old names who have died :(
I miss the days when you could bold someone's name (or a shortened version of). Quote them by using italics and people knew what you were doing. Unlike today when ive been called out on a post that wasnt me. It was a quote.
And DS2 meant second ds. Ds(2) was a 2 year old ds. I keep wondering why so many posters have 11 children then realising they dont. They have an 11 year old

I searched my original user name and found my 1st ever post. A buggies on buses thread from 2008. Some things never change

@LadyofTheManners @Ernieshere

Thanks very much for remembering me, I’m very much still here but under a name change

TheFormerPorpentiaScamander
"I miss the days when you could bold someone's name (or a shortened version of). Quote them by using italics and people knew what you were doing"

You still can.
Although I prefer the quote in bold too.

At least the new quote feature doesn't allow people to select a section out of context.

Love to everyone here.

I often think about the flash of joy I experienced when I first found MN: it was like coming across an island, slightly outside of reality, embedded in a computer screen, amidst a sometimes overwhelming day to day reality of the intensities of motherhood.

I used to feel I was just lying on sand, drying in sun, after having been pounded by life.

And it was so intimate, and almost as though it was written in a language I heard nowhere else but had known forever.

So - thank you all for that.

I guess we're all older now. Sometimes I feel that life has treated me much the way a toddler treats its favourite cuddly: not unkindly, so to speak - possibly even an excess of a kind of love - but certainly in a way that has bits of me falling off, my stuffing flattened, and crucial parts now long gone.

And my earliest suspicions that having children is a reckless act of making your emotional and psychological stability a hostage to fortune proved correct ...

But, hey, that's experience. And I guess you have to find some way of loving it - the incredible gifts of joy and the grim bits.

Immense amounts of love to you, BitOfFun. Just lots of luck, too, you gorgeous, marvellous woman.

And to all of you: thank you for your company and wisdom and humour. And keep on carrying it forward. 💐💐💐

I know you still can. I did earlier and then someone decided the quote was mine and 'had a go' at me

Yes the new quote function does have that as a positive

@7ofNine

I remember lisad, she was misdee's sister.

Are they still around. I remember the very real tension when Peter was waiting for his transplant.

Oooh Pink Peter !

(And a @Biwi.)

Oooh - don't wave @thecatfromjapan, we're not allowed to do that these days!

I just looked myself up and I’ve been here since 2007 several different names.
But I come and go and have breaks of a few years.
I remember so many of the old names, many of them so supportive to me on the SN boards.
I also remember some stonking threads with Xenia in them, I used to find her really outrageous, but she often posts in higher education threads these days and she is extremely helpful and kind.
I’m still very fond of MN and get lots of support here.

@BIWI you can wave. You just have to add lighthearted in case anyone take offence

Ah soddit I have to wave to @thecatfromjapan too, was always perked up a little to see a post from you. It's true that some of us have moved on nearly 20 years on this site, which is a big ol' chunk of life when you think of it.

What happened to Fabbychic? And also later Expat?

as though it was written in a language I heard nowhere else but had known forever

That's exactly it, thank you thecatfromjapan for articulating it perfectly.

I have never actually seen Xenia be rude to anyone over the last 10 years We don't always agree but she is a very decent person I think.

I don't think I've ever referenced my sex life but chuckled to be remembered as potentially rampant. Rabid perhaps

I have never actually seen Xenia be rude to anyone over the last 10 years We don't always agree but she is a very decent person I think.

Totally agree, I used to get into some massively heated discussions with Xenia a good decade ago, I was called Jajas for the first 5/6 years until I started namechanging, she was always polite even if exasperating!

This thread has made me very nostalgic.