To not want to be the minority where I live?

[Charlottehines]

It really saddens me that in parks and soft plays with my children, that I am in the minority and my children can't play with other children there as they all play together and obviously can't speak English.
I'm in no way racist, my husband is of mixed origin but I do find it incredibly sad that my children are growing up the minority especially when these other groups make no effort to integrate with other mums or the children.
Am I completely unreasonable to feel sad about this?

Migrants come here for family connection, as students OR to work.

So yes it is a myth that all immigrants come here to work.

You had me at pink, smells of grapefruit and refillable.

I thought it was a nice cocktail :)

or a reusable condom perhaps...... which I suppose could still be oddly called a cocktail.... (step too far?)

Ah, thank you :)

at grapefruit-scented cleaner.

To Dawndonna: maybe you're right. I'm an academic myself and echochamber never sounded to me like an academic at all. What s/he says in between citing sources is too incoherent. shrugs

But if people really are taken in by that kind of pseudo-erudition, then what you and adoptmama have been doing is worthwhile.

Needless to say, discourse doesn't have to be so-called academic discourse to be valuable. I am endlessly impressed by MNers like MrsDeVere - I have no idea whether she's been to uni or not, but she has more wisdom in the tip of her little finger than most people I've come across.

Happy citrus-scented cleaning to one and all.

P.S. Love the Toni Morrison quote!

I think echochamber is a bored A level politics student who thinks they can 'teach' us poor, thick parents a thing or two - wrong!

a wee url link..... just because ;)

Thank you Marfisa

I'm a lecturer, oh and Toni Morrison is one of my all time favourite authors.

I too admire both adopt, MrsDV and YoutheCat hasn't exactly been slacking either!

You're welcome, MrsDV, I don't post much but I am definitely a long-time lurking fangirl of yours. If you ever do have the time to finish that Open Uni degree, you will be brilliant at it, I'm sure.

Fabulous link adoptmama!

I didn't know you were a lecturer, Dawndonna, but I'm not surprised to hear it. I saw that adoptmama is a teacher too. Clearly teaching runs in the blood because it is really hard to see people posting bonkers stuff on a thread and NOT try to educate them. As you say, there are loads of clever people posting on this thread. I wasn't trying to undermine anything you have said, I just thought it was pearls before swine.

I am definitely going to try Method now. Very pleased I have learned something valuable from this thread.

They do a nice range of colourful sprays those Method guys.
This thread made me realise the other thread applied to me - sahp and chat about detergents or go back to work as a vet .
I got all uppity too ' how very dare you suggest I have nothing to say as an at home mum ' ...
So no , it wasn't a mispost !

I love a good chat about a Dyson :)

Remarkable things, Dysons........

Mmm. I'm a Miele convert myself.

Can you give me a link to prove it's better

See, I chucked my Miele recently and bought a dyson. I swear my carpets have never been cleaner and the persian rug in the sitting room looks jewel like now. Well, it does for about ten minutes each day and then when the hoover goes away the dog comes back in from the garden and it's covered in hair again!

Oh, and Marfisa I have the pink Method for the kitchen and a lovely eucalyptus and mint (blue) one for the bathroom!

adopt

oooh a persian rug :)

I had a nice Ikea one till the dog hurled on it. Wonder if a dyson would have coped with that.

If I ever get a dyson I'll feel like I won the lottery. Sad really isn't it. :)

Golly, OP - I was stunned at your post. If you met me, you'd think I was British to the core. I was born here; went to school and university here; was a civil servant for 30 years.
Shock horror - I'm half Polish.
Thousands of Poles stayed here after WWII and we jolly well did integrate. In fact, we integrated so well into British society that people like the OP had no idea she was already living a country with many people with Polish heritage!

Katie I suspect you integrated into the 1930's when you say 'gooy' and 'we jolly well did'. All that's missing is 'jolly hockey sticks'.

Member of my family had a Polish gentleman as their boss in the airforce in the 1960s/70s. The old gent had walked out of Poland when the Nazis occupied, walked across war time Europe, got into Britain, fought for the Free Polish forces, stayed on, joined the RAF and didn't go back till after Communism fell to find what was left of his family. Man's a bloody hero.

oh it's easy to explain coldlightofday

ever see one of those zombie movies?

everyone sits around all day, knowing as soon as it gets dark the mindless zombies are going to come back and try and have another chew.

in the meantime they try to focus on the normal things in life

and what's more normal than a bunch of MN'ers sitting around chatting about Dysons? We've already done cleaning products. Next will be a discussion as to whether or not we should iron our knickers. (I'm not in favour of it personally.....)

Wanders in. Sees talk of hoovering. Wanders out again

Adoptmama - I suspect you are trying to be insulting, but your typo of "gooy" rather lost you some credibility points there. Never mind.
FYI: My father also escaped from Poland on foot, was a member of the 1st Polish Parachute Brigade and a highly decorated tank commander who took part in the invasion of Europe. He could not go back to Poland because he would have been killed by the Communist authorities. Oh - and all his family had been killed by the Nazis, so there wasn't a whole lot to actually go back for.