Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

To INSIST DH buy me this house so my beautiful children can frolic round the gardens...

69 replies

Bathsheba · 09/02/2012 09:43

This one

This is no stealth boast - unless we win 100million we can't afford it - we live in a fairly normal 3 bed semi - its just property porn....

BUT I think my children are so beautiful that the current owners should GIVE me the house as some sort of right....

OP posts:
StealthPolarBear · 09/02/2012 09:45

yaNbu
Though we need pics of the beautiful children as well :o
If he doesn't, leave the bastard
(though how can that place only have 3 bedrooms??)

mrsjay · 09/02/2012 09:46

your children should frolic perhaps if you have a son he has lovely golden hair for the sun to shine through and you daughter wears floaty sundresses and floppy hats Grin I kinda want to frolic in that garden , One can dream sigh

thisisyesterday · 09/02/2012 09:46

but imagine having to clean it.
and calling the kids for dinner... you'd never find them

OhTheInsanity · 09/02/2012 09:47

Yes please!

lizziebennet · 09/02/2012 10:13

The picture with the Secret Garden door sent me over the edge.

YANBU

lurkerspeaks · 09/02/2012 10:14

stealtpolarbear

I'm afraid you've misunderstood. The guest cottage in the grounds only has 3 bedrooms. Which is obviously terrible - surely guests need more than 3 bedrooms. The main house has 6 Envy.

lesley33 · 09/02/2012 10:15

My children are ugly. But can they join your beautiful children to frolic in the garden and live in the accompanying detached house?

Tillyscoutsmum · 09/02/2012 10:21

thisisyesterday - there is a dinner gong on one of the pictures so that you don't have to shout the dc's for dinner. I like the idea of the gong. I'll take the house, providing they include the gong.

fuzzypeach1750 · 09/02/2012 10:23

Awww it's lovely. Let's all club together! Grin

mrspepperpotty · 09/02/2012 10:25

Great idea! A mumsnet house for all our beautiful DCs to frolic! Do you think MNHQ would chip in?

typicalvirgo · 09/02/2012 10:25

I like the gong idea too.

2rebecca · 09/02/2012 10:30

I agree it is gorgeous, but keeping it that beautiful would either require a load of work from us in which case we could never relax in it, or an army of servants. I think I'd just like someone to let me live there for a month in the summer, with an army of servants to keep it nice.
Heating it would cost a fortune as well, although anyone who can afford over 2 mill for a house won't be bothered by that. I love all the wood panelling.

Whatmeworry · 09/02/2012 10:31

Can't you just get him to get his parents to give you the money?

bottersnike · 09/02/2012 10:33

Beautiful, especially as the main en-suite is bigger than my current bedroom!

Original poster
Bathsheba · 09/02/2012 10:33

Well I figure that I could use the 3 bedroom attached house for my gardener, housekeeper and Aupair...

All your children can come and play too...if they hold hands in a big long chain and run sort of sideways in and out of places in the garden.

They haven't mentioned on the blurb that its really near the community centre that my 2 eldest dds go to Brownies and Rainbows...

OP posts:
basic · 09/02/2012 10:34

Not great cloakroom though - haven't you noticed it's only 6'1" x 4'11"

Grin
2rebecca · 09/02/2012 10:35

Not sure my teenagers really do "frolicking". Looking at the rooms none of them look aimed at teenagers, would need to stick posters up in one of the rooms and have a few non antique desks with computers and a large TV screen attached to xbox etc.

happystory · 09/02/2012 10:36

They do like a bit of wood panelling don't they!

redrubyshoes · 09/02/2012 10:37

There is a door just like the one in The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett!

AngryFeet · 09/02/2012 10:37

I love it! But it also has the sort of look about it that makes me think I would be scared at night. It looks like it would definitely be haunted by the ghost of a child...

thisisyesterday · 09/02/2012 10:38

my chldren would ignore the gong, or not hear it cos they're exploring the attic/far ends of the garden

then they'd come in and strop about missing dinner.

actinglikeateenager · 09/02/2012 10:40

Hmm well reading your comments I think I may decide to take it off the market and stay put now.....

lesley33 · 09/02/2012 10:40

You lot! If you cut back on the expensive holidays, eating out and replacing your car every year, you could afford it. You just need to learn how to budget. Grin

maresedotes · 09/02/2012 10:44

Beautiful. I'm going to start saving for it. Just off to see if there's any spare change down the sides of the sofa...

mrsjay · 09/02/2012 10:46

my children are teenagers they DO NOT frolic grumble flounce and grunt but not had frolicking children for years sigh them were the days i think i would need to lock them away in the cottage just so it wouldnt cloud the frolicking happiness Grin