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How did I recognise a fellow Mumsnetter while in Spain?

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UrsulasHerbBag · 11/05/2026 15:13

I met a mumsnetter in Spain... How did I recognise her? (Just for fun, but I did meet one of us in the wild and there was a recognising factor).

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randomfemthinker · 12/05/2026 18:14

She asked you for a handhold after an argument with her partner resulting in her screaming, "cocklodger" at him as he didn't go 50/50 on the holiday.

DilettanteRedRagger · 12/05/2026 18:15

Timetakesacigarette · 11/05/2026 15:15

She was buying naice jamon?

Buien jamon 😂

Sagetiger · 12/05/2026 18:26

UrsulasHerbBag · 11/05/2026 15:13

I met a mumsnetter in Spain... How did I recognise her? (Just for fun, but I did meet one of us in the wild and there was a recognising factor).

Are you behind me? I’m on my sunbed reading this with my leopard print scarf on my head as a chic headscarf and I’ve said No is a complete sentence to DH every time he asks a completely inane question while I contemplate why I don’t LTB. I’ve had two olives for breakfast and I’m counting the units in my second G&T and popping the cals into nutracheck. Away for an evening stroll just now to work off the excesses of today but I’ll look out for you…

Thmssngvwlsrnd · 12/05/2026 18:27

Did she put the loo brush in the dishwasher?

Shinyhappyapple · 12/05/2026 18:28

Calliopespa · 11/05/2026 18:05

Do Mners go to Spain though?

Just what I was thinking! Everyone knows that the whole of Spain is ‘Brits Abroad’ and a true MNer only holidays in France or Greece. Although Spain may be allowed if it’s an Ikos hotel.

NameChangeMay2026 · 12/05/2026 18:31

Diosmonet · 11/05/2026 15:18

She fed the whole village with a single chicken.

🤣🤣🤣

Scdr · 12/05/2026 18:40

She said where is your OH

TeaPot496 · 12/05/2026 18:45

She has every day at the AI buffet, just constructed a MASSIVE Salad for every meal?

DanaScullysLegoHair · 12/05/2026 18:51

With a tinkly laugh she placed the shopping divider the wrong way in the middle of the conveyor belt, while adjusting the Roka Kennington bag she had slung over her Boden dress?

Allseeingallknowing · 12/05/2026 18:59

She was wearing a hideous denim mini skirt, with her buttocks hanging out!

NameChangeMay2026 · 12/05/2026 19:22

Presumably you saw that she had Mumsnet open on her phone??

Bunnyfuller1 · 12/05/2026 19:29

Fangirling JK Rowling?

EarthSight · 12/05/2026 19:32

Timetakesacigarette · 11/05/2026 15:15

She was buying naice jamon?

What is naice? Is is just another word for posh?

Chiefangel · 12/05/2026 19:35

Was she clutching her pearls?
Was she Feeding her family on a whole chicken ?
or definitely NOT wearing a naice dress with white trainers?

Blodwynne · 12/05/2026 19:47

EarthSight · 12/05/2026 19:32

What is naice? Is is just another word for posh?

It's how "nice" people pronounce nice.

Holidaymodeon · 12/05/2026 19:49

Did she have two £3k dresses she couldn’t choose between that she’d had specially altered because she can’t even fit into preemy sized clothes?

whilst making faux naive observations about her next door neighbour’s solid gold rolls Royce mobility car and her five ‘privately diagnosed’ (think: falsified diagnosis for $$$ they look perfectly fine to me) nd children ?

BringBackCatsEyes · 12/05/2026 19:50

Did OP actually spot a MN'er in Spain or is this just another "what's a typical MN thing?" thread?

ChristmaslightsuptilJanuary · 12/05/2026 19:50

She was booking in at the hotel spa for a yoni massage

Mumwithbaggage · 12/05/2026 19:51

Do we know what the B word is yet? Bombshell? Boden? Batshittery T shirt? Birkies? Brilliant child who can read Dostoyevski at 18 months?

Holidaymodeon · 12/05/2026 19:52

Had she found a wonderful little taverna off the beaten track only used by locals ‘in the know’ ?

RapunzelHadExtensions · 12/05/2026 19:55

Can someone please enlighten me on the massive salad reference?? I know all the others but this one must have passed me by. Bonus love for supplying the link. I would be forever in your debt 😁

SemiRetiredLoveGoddeess · 12/05/2026 20:06

She addressed her children and husband as DD1, DD2, DS1 and DH.

Always a dead give away.

👍

AreThereSomewhereIslands · 12/05/2026 20:06

Was she running frantically downhill with a rubber wheelchair handle in each hand?

Blarn · 12/05/2026 20:09

AreThereSomewhereIslands · 12/05/2026 20:06

Was she running frantically downhill with a rubber wheelchair handle in each hand?

Grin that one made me laugh so much today!

OpheliaNightingale · 12/05/2026 20:19

Destination wedding drama?