to expect my childminder to use DS's £400 pram for him!!!!!

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Well, i'm silently fuming! When one of my ds's starting with a childminder friend we bough a silver cross linear freeway for her to use so that we don't have to lug prams etc around all the time. He is her only charge as he is mildly disabled and she is fantastic with him, however, yesterday i nipped out of work to go to the bank and saw something that has wound me up!

The childminders daughter has come to visit for a few days with her 8-month old baby, so there's the start of the story!

I turned round in town and saw my SC pram (very distinctive as is a limited edition colour and i've not seen one the same) went over to say hello to DS and what did i see- the grandaughter sitting in my lovely pram, and my ds shovelled into a cheapo £15 beach type buggy- no padding, no canopy, doesn't lie back etc!

should i say something? am i being silly? Just really annoys me that the daughter is a real cheapskate- has the cheapest of cheap travel system from argos then swans off with my pram as soon as she gets the opportunity! I would understand if she had a small car and couldn't fit everything in, so asked in advance if she could borrrow it, but i know for a fact that her travel system is in the boot of her very large car!!!

nearlythere...the Adventure Buggy Everest (ok, I have the venturer, which is the older, slightly bulkier version and the Toddlerseat wasn't as well thought through as the new everest's one...balance, etc...) is brilliant...I mean, my older version one is brilliant (have used it now for about 3 years , as I got it a few month before ys was born, who will be 3 in august), so the everest one must be even more fabulous.
There is only 1 distributer in the UK, but it really should be more easily available here in Britain...the amount of times I have been stopped and asked about it and where I got it, etc...!
The companies owners are the same as the Phil & Ted ones, only under a different company name, and I actually asked them which one they consider the better one, and dispite the Adventure Buggy being the cheaper model, it was them that told me, that they find that teh Adventure Buggy is the better designed one....and that really made my mind up for me
You should consider to stock it

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is ds still having walking issues meggle?

i'm off out to get dinner, will be back later tonight

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i;d wait and see what results come back as. soubnds promising though doesnt it?

Have you said anything yet? (can't find if you did, but many posts)

if nto I would take carefully- it may have been a ten minute oh dont you look pretty in that pram thing, not clever but far frome vil. I would try something like 'Oh I saw X in town the other day, she ahd her daughter in X's pram, did she like it? Oh good. I was surprised but I'm sure it was a once off, kids do liek to try each others things dont they? How did X find the stroller? Of right, coz I thought it might upset him what with not being suitable medically'

clear, but nto attackeing. IYSWIM.

Glad to hear you got it sorted.

3andnomore- i'm on to it!!! so far i've spoken to abc UK and they are the only uk distributor but there seems to be a few stockists who deal with them- however they don't tend to keep them in stock but order them specifically from abcuk!

tbh i'm not a great fan of the p&t, its a great design and looks nice but just not my thing!!

Meggle- if you like the modern look- have a squizz at the first wheels, its remarkably pretty in rl, and handles brilliantly. I tend to steer clear of 3 wheel doubles, not sure about 3 wheelers full stop but the width and wheel base scares me!!!! oh or the Jane twintwo- very nice and sensibly you dont have to have the toddler at the front (or so i belive!!!)

I would be very angry about this. In fact I think I would have asked her at the time why her granddaughter was in my son's pram. She has an unbelievable cheek.

I would've been furious too. When I had dd2 I bought a new Pram, that converts to pushchair as a special treat for me and dd2. Comfort is the issue here. But tbh I would still have been furious that she swapped cos her dd was moaning about HER dd being uncomfy and then put YOUR child in the uncomfy seat!!!! Does your child's comfort not matter.

I really enjoyed using the pram too, but had to swap to pushchair as she is the ultimate nosy parker and wouldn't lay down where she couldn't see anything
Didn't get nearly as much use out of it as I'd hoped.
Oh well