to loathe the cloth nappy brigade and

[conniedescending]

this nappuchino bolleaux

Nappucino?? Is that like a cappucino lol

er,well, yeah

I think Connie is actually a closet clothie!! For someone who claims to hate cloth nappies she certainly knows her brand names!
For those of us who want to form a proper brigade can I suggest an inaugural meeting in my shed - that's The Nappy Shed and we'll make some banners, plan a marching route and host a nappuccino in every town. Yeah! (Actually I already run nappuccinos in Reading and Oxford - does that count?!)

Makes sense to me. She (and other non cloth users) is just jealous of our minky fluff.

Not to mention our lower shopping bills, our sweet smelling bins, our early potty trained toddlers and peachy little bottoms.....

Tra la la, hello sky, hello trees, hello all you disposable nappy-using peasants..

But I don't live in Brighton and I'm not vegetarian (and Gina Ford is next to the continuum concept on my bookshelf). Do I still get to be an Earth Mummy??

I wanted to use those cuddly fleecy nappies with cute patterns on but we share a communal laundry room with 9 other flats and there is no collection laundry service in my city

trying ec but so far only caught the squidgy fart-poos she does when she is freaking out, and none of the 10-15 massive poos she does every day... thank god for (overpriced) sposies!

I deduce from Cain's story that women who sometimes commute to Cambridge from Manchester have an uncanny knack for choosing looney childminders.

Makes as much sense as Cain concluding, from her one experience knowing a single cloth nappy user, that all cloth nappy users are a bunch of foul-mouthed freaks, right?

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To be part of a "brigade" don't you have to be evangelical about it, not merely a practitioner?

There was actually a study done that concluded that cloth nappies were little better for the environment than disposeables.

Reason being, they have to be hot washed to kill bacteria and the constnat hot washing is just as bad for the enviroenment as disposeables.

Read the thread better, A1980, as pointed out previously, that Research was quite flawed.

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Wish I had the conviction to be evangelical about something .

pmsl at 'wooden toy enthusiast'

and the thread is about the 'brigade' not just the humble terry cloth user who gets on with it

all the daft nappy names irritate me and they seem to be a fashion statement rather than any sort of conscious decision to be an eco warrior

vegan, surely..

A1980, I'm with you on the washing machine temperature thing. I did my washing on 60 when we tried cloth nappies, and it was horrific how much the electricity consumption in the house skyrocketed. I still think the environmental benefits are ultimately in question - you can find stats to support either argument.

Using disposables has far, far less impact than all the families in China and India acquiring washing machines, imho. We do recycle and compost more and more, which is great and use fuel-efficient vehicles for essential journeys, but we mustn't lose sight of the bigger picture, either. It is possible to become a bit too egocentric about the whole issue.

Back to the humour of it, though, I've had a few bitchy conversations with DH about the local eco-warriors who talk so earnestly and piously to anyone who will listen about how low impact their lifestyle is. I've often said that they probably all sleep on beds of nails at night (less environmental impact than a mattress) and sit on a huge spike on a Sunday for a treat.

Love what you've said about some of the names, Connie, and the wooden toy enthusiast thing. I do lean towards some of this image, if I'm honest, but I'd hate to think I take it all too seriously. Of course, a true eco warrior would say you can't take it seriously enough!!

I tried cloth nappies with dd, they all gave her nappy rash. Funnily enough, disposables do not...

..just to reprie, that tudy presumed you washed them at 90 degrees, tumble dried them and ironed them. and didn't use them for more than one baby.

pile of horse poo.

reprise, study

I read somewhere once that stats can be used in the way a drunk uses a lamp post - for support rather than illumination. You can manipulate them to support any argument!

i can't afford to live in Brighton.

as a west sussex resident i enjoy their free real nappy scheme though.

I use them because they can be re-used and I'm not too sure of the chemicals that surround my ds's bottom that seem to "gel/crystallise" urine...

I am not an "earth mother", I do not own a pair of crocks and I don't live on a diet of lentils.

I am however leading the march for the wooden toy brigade on Sunday afternoon. May tie a cloth nappy to my mast.

I hope you're planning to wear something tie-dye.