to ask what a mumsnet summer will hold?

[gordyslovesheep]

So we have Feb and march - crap valentines and no present for mothers day threads

Easter is omg mil gave my child chocolate ...

Eurovision ...obviously

And the Christmas favourites mil-dinner- how much do you spend- Shit gifts

So what are the summer staples?

[TheOriginalSteamingNit]

dd got all level 12 on her year 7 report, is that good or not? And is there anything I can do to support her, if it turns out that it is good. Which I don't know. Apparently.

[usualsuspect]

Or people having a fag outside a cafe or in a beer garden gets the smoking police all riled up.

[gordyslovesheep]

Yay ...lots to look forward to I have an almost 9 year old who likes to be naked ...ill love that one!

[IfNotNowThenWhen]

Hey, doinmecleanin, I walk thru the park and scowl at dogs all year round! Bloody dogs. (runs away)

[SantanaLopez]

Yearly attendance prizes

[pollywollydoodle]

why can't teachers apply screen?
Dog crap in the park = bad
Crocs : does comfiness cancel out fugliness

[ipswitch]

Should I spend a million pounds letting my DD look like a tramp for her school prom?

[Buzzardbird]

Are capsule holiday clothes just for smelly people?

[pollywollydoodle]

proms ...blardy American idea...why?

Is fake tan/a helicopter necessary for junior prom ?

Hay fever ...should we move exams to a different time of year ?

[stillfeel18inside]

What about the royal baby? Hate/love the name Diana/Philip. And why doesn't Kate feel she can bf in public ffs?

[MrsMcEnroe]

I know they are not confined to the summer months, but I'm expecting a slew of threads about the unreasonableness of head teachers for not signing consent forms for holidays to be taken during the last week of term ....

And, if we get even one day of hot weather, there will be someone moaning on here about how they hate the heat.

There will also be plenty of threads about not wanting to go on a caravan holiday with MIL ...

I remember a thread from a few years ago where someone asked if she WBU to collect her DCs from school whilst wearing her bikini. She had a pool in her back garden iirc. Turned out she meant that she'd be wearing her clothes on top of the bikini, but most people assumed she meant that she'd turn up in a bikini and flip flops and nothing else ....

[SirChenjin]

Frizzy hair

A messy house with the youngest in and out all day long

No money, the result of increased childcare costs

2 teenagers lounging about the house alternating between being bored and needing money for their wild social lives

Some rain, a bit more rain, and a bit more rain on top of that

Frizzy hair

[SirChenjin]

Oops, just realised that I've missed the whole point of this thread

[Blueandwhitelover]

I only found Mumsnet at Christmas and enjoyed all the Christmas angst. I joined specifically to comment on Shinyballsandtinsel's thread on her dreadfully behaved neices/nephews. I am still desperate to find out how things are there!
I look forward to a happy summer.
not really on my fifth name change in an attempt to maintain anonymity

[scaevola]

What can I get the teacher for end of year present that isn't a scented candle

[WilsonFrickett]

Year end collections for teachers - there's a thread about that already!

Starting school for the first time - AIBU to miss the precious moments when it was just me and DC?

And of course, as has already been mentioned - why oh why oh why would someone post on fb that they're fed up with the holiday when I love every second of the holibobs spending time with my precious ickle ones doing the fingerpainting and wafting? Hmmm?

[HoneyStepMummy]

Lots of debates over end of school gifts for teachers. Someone will be insistant that teachers love to fill their home with home made crap, and another will be just as insistant that they don't. Then someone else will complain that "you are lucky to be able to afford pipecleaners to make tat with/a home/a child that goes to school".

Very very longwinded wine fueled threads about camping holibobs drama that always involve SILs and BILS.

Fights with MIL at family BBQs.

[WilsonFrickett]

Oh, last year there was one from a single MNer who was on holidays with her kids and debating popping next door for a spot of 'cultural exchange' with an equally single dad. I LOVED that thread. But I think I went on holiday and didn't find out how it ended.

[decaffwithcream]

Nothing has ever matched the heights of the woman on the AIBU supersoaker last-day-of-term thread.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/569630-super-soaker-etiquette-at-parties/AllOnOnePage

[MrsMcEnroe]

I've just read that thread decaff, thank you - 'twas hilarious

[MrsMcEnroe]

Ooh I want to know if the single MNer had a holiday romance with the chap next door...!! And I want to know what happened next!

[Blueandwhitelover]

I still want to know what happened in Shinyballs's family, there really should be an updates forum.

[decaffwithcream]

It's the most unanimous AIBU ever, and the most persistent OP. I love the way everyone gets gradually more and more riled up trying to explain YABU!

[SoniaGluck]

I remember that thread Wilson. I don't think that I read to the end, though, because I can't remember the outcome.

You know, sometimes, my being on MN reminds me that I am just like my auntie twitching her curtains to spy her neighbours - only on an epic scale.