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To want to know WHAT HAPPENED!?!

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willynillypie · 05/04/2018 16:52

Guys, I KNOW how sad this sounds but I am on maternity leave with a lot (A LOT) of time on my hands - I was following two threads which were absolutely amazing in terms of the responses - the unforgettable CF house sitting thread, and one about taking a 5 month old baby to the cinema. Went out to run errands, came home...BOTH THREADS HAVE BEEN TAKEN DOWN!! WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HOUSE SITTING SITUATION!?! DID THOSE CFS GET THE MONEY!?!

I expect to be told I have no life, this is fine Smile

Apologies for the caps lock, I am just VERY EXCITED ABOUT THE THREADS Grin

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ThinkOfAWittyNameLater · 06/04/2018 00:23

Does anyone remember the hen weekend where a hen wanted to bring her partner & child along? What happened in the end?

Some threads really stick in your mind. One (well, two if I recall correctly) in particular haunts me a little. A city woman trying to hold together a relationship with a country dweller. She was bending herself in knots to make things work and he was a selfish arse who wouldn't even feed her cats if she went away for a few days. I often think about her and hope she managed to find some peace and get some joy back in her life. Either by staying in that town or moving out to a city somewhere amazing and exotic.

storynanny · 06/04/2018 00:33

-lookforthestars-
Thanks! That sounds good news

Twounder1 · 06/04/2018 00:36

I want to know what happened to the poster who's son got his ex pregnant and had another 2 girls on the go 😧

MadisonAvenue · 06/04/2018 01:25

RebeccaCloud Oh no! That all seemed so lovely. I'm gutted too.

Panda81 · 06/04/2018 03:17

What annoys me MOST is that when a thread is deleted, it disappears from the watch list entirely, so you can't even see the deletion message!

AngeloMysterioso · 06/04/2018 03:35

NoCapes and the green eyed gardener! I wanna know how those guys are doing!

Mammysin · 06/04/2018 04:36

Yes Nocapes, GEG & baby...

8SaltandVinegar · 06/04/2018 05:08

@Oldpoundcoins You made my day! That was one of the updates I really wanted to know.

Best wishes to you and rumpled. Flowers

fuzzyfozzy · 06/04/2018 07:51

Twounder-troll apparently

TimbuktuTimbuktu · 06/04/2018 08:13

Yay! oldPoundCoins! So pleased you guys got together.

Did you ever tell him that your romance played out under the watchful eye of the Mumsnet coven?

HeyThatsNotMyName · 06/04/2018 08:16

Nocapes and lollipop are two people I always think about. I'd love to have an update. I always over invest emotionally into threads like those.

qazxc · 06/04/2018 08:29

Cf friends of house sitters were asking for money because they were skint and op's dh had agreed to pay them some money to cover bills. They also apparently thought it would be ok because the op would be closer to work and therefore saving on commute ( she wasn't, she had a season ticket for train already paid for).

Idbemonica1 · 06/04/2018 08:41

tinyme77 Genuwine thread was a troll apparently and pulled by mums net. I actually was worried at some point that the poor woman had died in hospital. Angry I am very gullable Blush

MadisonAvenue · 06/04/2018 09:01

There was another earlier this year where the OP was given flowers by a customer she regularly served in a store she worked in. I really didn't want that to be a troll but she stopped updating after a few dates.

BerylStreep · 06/04/2018 09:16

There are a couple of posters I often think about. WavesandSmiles - her baby must be coming 5 in the summer, and ChoccoReturns. I hope everything has worked out for them.

There was a poster who was married to a worryingly controlling man who was a vicar, and was gaslighting her. She came back on MN about a year later to start a thread to say she had confided in someone else in the church and had got support to leave. She discovered he had been telling anyone who would listen that she was an alcoholic (didn't drink) and had MH problems - I think she was called JamJars or something. I was so happy to hear her update and that she had got out of the situation.

bridgetjones1 · 06/04/2018 09:18

I always wonder about the pregnant woman who had her medical notes read by a "friend of a friend" and stupidly revealed she knew of her newly diagnosed condition. I think the thread was pulled as it was very identifying and OP wasn't sure whether she was going to report said "friend"

I definitely expected to see that one in the press but cannot recall seeing it.

ShopoholicIn · 06/04/2018 09:33

@HeyThatsNotMyName yes where is NoCapes .. what lovely romance that had all us hooked... need an update Smile

Imbluedabadee · 06/04/2018 09:39

I would love to know what happened with the woman who got lots of abusive messages from a colleague - she was accused of taking the shared laptop to work from home on a snow day and the bitch colleague called her a token disabled person. Op had emailed their manager and then the thread suddenly disappeared! Was that a troll?

Shinycantle · 06/04/2018 09:40

I think the occurrence of journalists poaching threads is a self-perpetuating negative spiral in that the more they do it, the less people post, so when threads are posted, the more likely they are to be stolen (by virtue of the fact there are less of them to choose from) and so on and so on ... .

No wonder more people are making things up in a way ... not nice at all especially when posters invest time & trouble in a thread ... but equally not nice for genuine posters' threads to be used as newspaper fodder.

Where will it all end (as my granny used to say)?

I love Mumsnet. Shame the credibility of the site is being undermined to this degree.

MyBoysAndI · 06/04/2018 09:46

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InsomniaInTheMiddle · 06/04/2018 09:47

There was a poster a few years ago; I can't remember her name (I thought I did...) Anyway she was in a horrible abusive relationship, she had been lead to believe it was totally normal that her husbands wants always came first, above her's, the children's, and even their safety. And was shocked when she realised that was not how most relationships worked.

She'd posted because they's agreed to have 4 children, she'd been unwell for the first 2 pregnancy's, and nearly died in the third, but he was pressuring her to get pregnant again, against all advice and what she wanted.

If I remember rightly she did leave with a lot of support from some very clever and resourceful women on the relationships board.

The whole thing opened my eyes to the fact that MN wasn't just a place to have a vent or a giggle; but it could show people that what they were putting up with wasn't normal, and how to get help.

I do think of her occasionally and hope she and her children are doing well

StealthNinjaMum · 06/04/2018 09:52

@Mateysmum thank you for updating on Hooray, I was following her threads too. She sounded such a lovely woman going through such crap and I was really hoping she wasn't a troll because I was over invested. (Although given the crap she was going through maybe it would've been better if she was a troll!)

StealthNinjaMum · 06/04/2018 10:01

@OldPoundCoins that's lovely I was on your threads. Your first thread was really lovely and under the radar (as much as a thread in relationships can be) and I felt uncomfortable for you with the second because suddenly lots of well-meaning lurkers place marked and suddenly we were like a hoard of excited women wanting you to get together with 'rumpled'. I am glad it had a happy ending.

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willynillypie · 06/04/2018 10:18

I'm quite new to MN, so I am really shocked to hear that so many/any threads are people just making shit up! I know that's naive but why would someone do that? I've seen a couple that were obviously made up and there just to make people laugh (and succeeded - like the woman moving to the "prestigious cul-de-sac"!), but with the really serious ones that people invest in I think that's quite mean.

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EachandEveryone · 06/04/2018 10:26

What happened to the two couples i think it was in Ireland were they had been each others bridesmaids and were all best friends. One couple were on a trial separation and the ops partner invited the male friend and the womam he'd been having an affair with to watch the rugby?

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