AIBU no friends

[TickleFlower]

Anyone want to be my friend? I literally have no friends.

I'm so lonely. :(

Anyone from Essex ? Lonely here too.

MN should have some kind of buddy thingie like NM have.

Aww I am sorry to hear that.

If you ever need someone to talk to, I am here. Although I am in the South West. :)

if anyone has missed it - there is a MN group on FB for meet ups / making friends etc. if anyone wants to join it, PM me! or anyone on this thread who has already joined the group (there is quite a few) you can PM them if they make themselves known and they can add you.

Right. I'm the same and I'm going on that there mumsnet local and putting it about a bit. I haven't in the past because it's geographically weird; where I am has been lumped into a conglomerate of places that have little to do with where I am. Er. So I'm going to go on the one that is and go mental with openness to friendship. Maybe.

Im from Chorley now near Preston :)

I'm not in birmingham but not too far and I can get there for a meetup if it involves wine

Anyone else west mids/staffordshire?

Any Preston/chorley people fancy cheeky monkeys? Ok phrased that wrong, of course u don't fancy cheeky monkeys, you'd rather stick pins in your eyes but can anyone think of a better meet up place?!

Hi Moomie, please can you PM me re the mn group? Can't PM you for some reason...

Another East Sussex person who would like to have more mates!

I live near God's waiting room Eastbourne.

Probably too close to Christmas to arrange a meet up, but I've spotted ElectricSoftParade, Gallifrey & AGeeksWife here - why don't we try to go for something in early 2013?

Nothing to lose if we just meet for a coffee somewhere?

I'm nearly a granny in my prime & would be happy to meet you all!

Sorry if I've missed out anyone else from East Sussex!!

Losing track of who is where on this thread

Don't understand why MN local is so quiet, looking at mine you would think I am the only Mumsnetter in Lanashire!

I've never been to Cheeky Monkeys. Is it better than Puddletown Pirates? and can you pretend to lose a toddler that you don't have to go down the snake slide

I couldn't figure out the MN local thing, it just keep giving me a link to a London map

Flojo1979 - you do know you can't possibly meet up with anybody after your mooncup thread don't you

Bumblequeen I can really relate to your post. I did have a large group of people who I considered great friends but people grow apart and when I started experiencing ill health and finding social occasions difficult people really started to drop off the radar. I have been left with anxiety & I really struggle to make new friends. I meet other mums at groups but they all have their established friendship groups and it feels very difficult to get past the superficial stage.
My hen night was so hard, a lot of my old friends couldn't come and the ones that did weren't very involved and my new friends & colleagues aren't that close t o me so I felt a bit lonely and it all felt a bit sad. I see big groups of girls/women out together seemingly so happy and close and it's a bit gutting.
I'd also like to have friends with that could become friends with my children. I feel that I have a responsibility to help to shape their early social lives!
I am crap at networking. I secan be in a group of other women who don't know each other and I think that I'm making all the right noises & it feels like there's a connection but the next time we meet its back to square one and the rest have all made friends without me.
I often wonder if it's because of my background, it was unconventional and I don't really fit in any social groups. One 'friend' told me she could never work out 'which box' I Fit in!
Anyway...cut a long story short : I'm not on Facebook which doesn't help but I'd love to know how to start a Devon dumplings group.

Excuse typos hope you can get the gist, I was trying to say I'd love to make friends with children who could become friends with my children!

thyme did u have to? walks of in shame....and wonders why the hell I didn't namechange! probably because I thought it'd turn up in the washing machine

yes better than puddletown, u don't get kicked out after 2 hrs and the coffee is nicer!

Bumble me like you :)

Sorry! I will try very hard not to look suspiciously at every woman I see now who is in the naice ham section of Tesco walking strangely

As long as they have robust slides and disinterested teenage staff that don't notice me pretending to rescue my imaginary lost toddler i'm happy

tallulah I checked lancashire one earlier and no one has been on it since 2010! I must admit, I haven't been on it and don't know much about MN local But I would be happy to meet up with anyone who hasn't read my mooncup thread for either a play date with the kids or without!