to ask if anyone's going to own up to owning the badly behaved childred in the Lyme Park cafe today?

[FishEye]

Jumping all over the sofas, running around... mums completely ignoring them. No discipline at all.

Come on, at least one of you must be on here. Defend yourselves!

[fitforflighting]

'TheSecondViola
Yeah, they were mine. They are professional actors, and it was a short play written just to piss you off.'

[ExitPursuedByABear]

I got kicked by a deer in Lyme Park, about 50 years ago.

Good grief that makes me feel really, really old.

[shrunkenhead]

Isn't Tatton Park the one with the deer? Not guilty, only got the one and she was at school and if she'd behaved like that I would've soon sorted it/removed her from cafe! I'd be in another post titled "woman LOUDLY disciplines child in cafe"!
What did the deleted thread say? It always bugs me that they get removed before I've read them, makes the fallout hard to understand!

[TinyPenguin]

Oh my.... I love visiting Lyme park with my children and today I thought I would spoil myself on a lovely child free wander with the pooch. I also popped in to the cafe to warm up and eat some cake (which I knew I wouldn't have to share for a change!)

If the group you are referring to were the same group I witnessed then i think I need to speak up for them..... They seemed to be a family or friends group with young children and were sat in the corner of the cafe on the sofa. The children were busy eating cake when I arrived and were sharing the sofa seat between them (I noticed they had all removed their muddy footwear ;-) so they must have been for a walk in the woods as my pooch resembled the colour of their Wellies too :-D ) The parents were dispersed within the group.

The group left just before me - I think because the younger boys had become a bit boisterous by that time, wrestling a bit on the sofa, however, they were not endangering anyone or themselves - I didn't see them running around - they were neatly contained in their sofa area.

I expect that 'spirits' were high as young children's are when gathering in groups.

Then again..... I could have witnessed a different group, there seemed to be a lot of children there today, mine were back at school/nursery but I think perhaps some local schools were on inset days?

I hope the people you refer to read this and it eases any embarrassment..... We have all been there! ;-)

[Stratter5]

God no! I was making a pointy remark aimed at the posters who blame everything on SN, which in my eyes is wrong, and derogatory to those who.do have SN (and their parents).

[Puzzledandpissedoff]

Is Lyme Park the one with the deer?

I don't know, but it was the one where Colin Firth played Mr Darcy undressed. For this alone it wins my vote for the best possible visitor attraction in the UK

[OurBlanche]

As you can tell, Stratters, I read it how you probably meant it and replied accordingly

[PurpleHairAndPearls]

I thought that was an odd comment from you stratters as you're not normally a twat glad to see it wasn't meant horribly

Isn't Lyme Park the one with a fabulous but lethal adventure playground? If it is, we saw a toddler face plant quite badly on some equipment far too old for them (cut lip, banged head, lots of noisy tears) and their parent didn't appear for ages and then reprimanded DH for trying to comfort said toddler. Honestly, the place must be a knobbish parent magnet (yes yes I'm horribly judgey but parent in my case really upset DH who was trying to help!)

[R0nJ0n]

Certainly wasn't mine, she was asleep until 1pm. Lyme Park sounds like our kind of NT place though, with dressing up and an adventure playground, shame it's a long way from us.

Normally the worst behaviour I see in NT cafes is large groups of damp, muddy ramblers occupying all the indoors tables for hours trying to dry off and warm up.

[Stratter5]

Just want to apologise, absolutely didn't mean my post to be derogatory to any SN, but I can see how it came across badly. Really am v sorry, and have taken on board :(

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

Ooops, 5foot5 - I saw Lyme Regis in a letter post on the thread, and got mixed up!

However, as ds3 has finally got up, I am sure he wasn't in Lyme Regis, Lyme Park or even Newcastle under Lyme this morning. It would have meant him getting up in the morning - something he has managed maybe twice during this holiday! Nocturnal students - gotta love them!

[ouryve]

Sorry. Mine were too busy creating havoc in the doctor's waiting room. (While we waited, yet again, for a repeat prescription to be corrected and signed).

[PurpleWithRed]

It was me - I am shameless, when my kids show me up for the terrible mother I am I just laugh and have another gin latte... You should try it, it makes coffee with the kids so much more fun and relaxing.

[PersephonePitstop]

I've never been to Lyme Park and doubt the DCs would agree to go now, what with them being grumpy teenagers.

[Waltermittythesequel]

Annie I know you're joking but I have a now distant school mum friend whose children would do as you say. She also finds it hilarious.

She's been kicked out of two extra curricular activities, public transport, and a zoo. And that's only the stuff she's told me about.

[knobblyknee]

Actually I'm a mature student. And it was part of a very moving Art installation actually.

[LemonSqueeze]

Why didn't you say something at the time?

[FishEye]

The one with loads of deer is dunham massey but lyme park may also have deer. Didn't see any today though.

[AnnieNoMouse]

I was just about to post a thread on here to ask who was the stoney faced misery in the cafe today with the impeccably behaved (and therefore clearly repressed and creatively-thwarted) stepford children.
Mine had a glorious time - thank you for asking. they used the sofa to reenact a Viking sail boat. I agree pillaging the cake stand was a teeny bit naughty but the waitress seemed to take it with good grace.

[ThomasRichard]

Not mine but I had a similar scenario in a garden centre restaurant a couple of weeks ago while I was queuing to get food. I left my lunch, paid for the DCs' lunch boxes and took them home in disgrace :o

[clockbuscanada]

Is Lyme Park the one with the deer?

[FarrowAndBallache]

Tbh the mood I'm in right that could have been me if I had been at Lyme Park today.

Poor mothers, probably fucking knackered after being off with the brats for 2 weeks.

[CwtchMeQuick]

Wasn't us.
But if anyone's looking for the parent of the badly behaved brats children in Shrewsbury McDonalds earlier that's me

[icanteven]

Oh the mortification. It was Pemberley. Netherfield was Basildon Park.

[FarrowAndBallache]

TheSecondViola that made me laugh!