To think maybe we don't fit in?

[MadameOneSword]

I think I'm definitely an outsider on MN, my kids arent gifted, we aren't rich, dammit we both have the work, full time! we don't live in a castle, shopat waitrose and certainly don't eat this good ham that y'all talk about

Maybe I just go back under my rock?

I love this thread

leather sofa, check, laminate flooring, check, ikea furniture, check. I am also an aldi shopper and have a branch within five minutes walk of my home. My dc (all five) are allowed to have biscuits, juice, fromage frais, crisps and cake regularly and are all partial to a fruit shoot and a gregs sausage roll. I allow them to play on Xbox/wii/iPads often. I have a degree, but it's a Desmond from a college of higher education. I once tried a mooncup but it was too horrid and am now fully back in the camp of disposable.

There's probably more... Can I come in?

Deffo, but promise ul get rid of that Mooncups thing yeh...we have an anti-yuk policy here

Trust me, it is long gone!

Im also regretting the fact that I don't own a onesie too...I know I said it wasn't practical whilst bf-ing but maybe I could just cut a little nipple shaped hole in it? Thoughts ?

Without being a traitor to our original brilliant rock I'd like to propose the setting-up of an adjacent rock right next door, for those who are wandering the identity-crisis wilderness. The following are already a shoe-in for membership:

AFishCalledElvira, pickledparsnip, happybubblebrain

As said the other day, I am a:

'Take A Break'-reading, Primark-wearing, bargain-hunting, rented house-dwelling, working-class family-owning, Greggs-eating, controlled crying-adhering mum to a toddler to whom I give Petits Filous/crisps/chocolate in front of the TV which he loves and I love him watching. Me and my toddler DS spend entire mornings watching Jezza in our PJ's together.

HOWEVER I also...

Am vegetarian
Like foreign film and independent cinema.
Have 3 degrees and an embarrassingly long string of letters after my name.
Have Radio 4 on in the house all day
Genuinely love lentils and brown rice/pasta.
Read the Guardian
Have lots of friends who are social workers/GP's/teachers etc
Buy organic milk
Hang-out in libraries
Use cotton bags-for-life
Own an all-terrain 3-wheeler buggy.

I love being a huge contradiction. It keeps people who meet me on their toes .

So - can the new 'Contrary Mary' rock be a sub-rock of the original rock please?

I own 3 onsies

I have two p/t jobs (one being in a supermarket). I am 3rd year student studying for a degree but really was a way of putting off going back to work post dd and when I graduate will continue my supermarket job as the money's not bad and I like my hours. Maybe doing something with it once finished having children.

I'd never heard of joules or white company until discovering mn.
The only reason I dont use text speak is because my iPhone corrects it. My iPhone is pink

Also never heard of a mooncup but sound pretty yuk!

My dd loves Greg's sausage rolls and fruit shoots!

However, mn was a very comforting place when I went trough the trauma of an mmc earlier this year so I stick around

Good thinking Madame! I like your thinking. What sort of animal/colour will you get?

Was thinking of doing similar to my Primark 'Spanx'-alikes. Thought about cutting the crotch out to allow for easier/quicker toilet trips with less having to roll the bleeders down over my barrel-esque "waist" each time.

Scampi...maybe we could have a rockery? But I agree ... You are an enigma, which I like.

Dh disagrees with this thread entirely, his premise of disagreement being ' hey! We used to live in havering'

Not sure what your DH's angle is there Madame. DH's never get the gist of such great threads .

I used to live down the road from that... in Barking. Not sure if that means I beat you or lose out to you in the Barking/Havering/Redbridge top trumps .

Well in one evening i have revealed that i often make my DC (12&10) breakfast for them and that i never bothered with puppy crates but let our two sleep next to us at night on a bean bag ... in our bedroom and everything.

Mumsnet is uptight the only place i can come to that makes me feel like a hippy

No, I don't know why he wears this as such a badge of pride...

We lived in em,mouth cough, sneeze, cough, mumble...

ROMFORD

Y'see this is where I would fall down, we live in Cheshire and I own a three wheeled pushchair

I do love Jezza though

I live on a council estate
I have tattoos
I have never even so much as clicked on the Boden link
I'm a youngster compared to a lot of posters
I may have encouraged DS1 to say "that bastard baby jesus" because it made me giggle

I never feel like I dont belong though :)
possibly because I have breastfeeding, babywearing, hippyish tendancies

Aw I don't think breast feeding, or beast feeding as we call it in our house, should be a factor in rock residency...some do, somedont, long as ubguys don't mind my boobs hanging out while we're watching tv lol

Yes BF is not just for boden sheep.

We used to live in Redbridge

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I find it highly convinient nadir means I can take a smaller bag with me

I may have found a common thread here - essex birds

^^that is what happens when you type and feed......nadir should translate roughly as ... Because I

That must be the nadir of your Mumsnet typing experience Madame

Can I join middle rock please? I own a 3wheeler pram (a 4 wheeler would never manage these hills!)
Use bags for life
Am listening to R4 right now
I breast AND bottle feed
DS2 is mesmerized by countdown (and dances to the timer thingy)
I make my own pizza, chips and occasionally bread
My boys have never had a greggs because the bastards do not have a shop locally
I own boden items

But I have fed DS2 chocolate buttons (dairy free)
I wear primark undies
I have a love of Jezza Kyle
My children have pizza and chips regularly.
I was a teen mum.

Where do I fit? Anywhere?

*lonely not lovely. Clouds are shit.

Well, I am dead posh.

I only buy the 'made with chicken breast' nuggets from Maccys you know.

Peasants.

wewereherefirst I was going to have you expelled immediately for the being a Boden apologetic, but your clouds are shit comment may have snatched it back for you.

Can you provide a video of dancing to countdwn, cos it sounds fucking epic.

Welcome...you can go to the halfway rock...scampi will meet you with a welcome pack and a Bacardi breezer

Bacardi breezers?! Well posh! We only have WKD here.

I shall have to film the crazy baby dancing, I havnt been able to so far because I have been laughing hysterically.

And can I just say ladies I've googled this mooncup malarkey and I dot get it....