to think this nursery is the very embodiment of gentrification in London?

[roundaboutsroundabouts]

I won't name the group of nurseries as I don't know if that's allowed (is it?) but I've just seen them referenced on instagram by a scandi toy brand. They are all in vair gentrified hipster parts of London and the fees are fcking EXTORTIONATE - £90 a day for the under-threes. I know that isn't unusual in London (although in my much cheaper part of London I only pay £55 a day). It holds a "curated" "programme" of monthly "events" (including pilates). The children get a daily smoothie - tomorrow's is beetroot, banana, ginger, berry, lemon and hemp. It describes itself as "design-led" and it's all vair tasteful scandi wooden toys in neutral colours. Design led?! Why does a NURSERY need to be "design-led"?!

You just know that everyone who sends their child there is going to have an ombre "lob", wear clothes from Arket, carry a fjallraven kanken backpack, own a bugaboo or a babyzen yoyo, dress said children in varying sludge colours from Mini Rodini, and have linen bedding in their Victorian Terraced house with white painted floorboards and scandi style planters.

I am BVU I know. But it is so irritating. I grew up in London, the child of an immigrant, and I feel like it's just an endless line of artisan coffee shops and overpriced farmers' markets these days.

Just tried to google and it's coming up with this post! What do I have to type in to find it online or can we just share the name?

Oh think I've found it and the offending ombré lob!

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@roundaboutsroundabouts cheers!

YABU on the “design led”: good design - as in making great use of space, reducing risks of accidents, pleasant place to be - is a good thing anywhere!

YANBU on the smoothies

yep @roundaboutsroundabouts

thanks!

I am a bit disappointed reading that website. It is more ordinary than I would have thought from the descriptions on this thread.
Teaching them Mandarin will mean learning some songs, nursery rhymes and the odd word in Mandarin. Your child being able to say cat, dog and sing the equivalent of 3 blind mice in Mandarin, will not matter either way.

Magic Roundabout is NOT the one OP was talking about @jennymanara that was the whole point of my post. OP confirmed her username was not connected to the nursery she was referring to. I’m going to have my post and this one deleted as not fair to MR if others make the same mistake you do.

Sorry and thanks for clarifying.

They have a huge tv room on one of them, surely they’re not going to plonk them in front of the telly 🤔

The race track in the roof looks pretty amazing as does the menu.

Aside from the Victorian terrace I don't know what any of the other brands mentioned in the op look like so I googled but can't imagine people wearing/using those brands having an ombré lob?

YABU - it's not expensive for London (we pay similar and we don't get smoothies 😢), and it sounds lovely. You're being a bit mean about it. I say all the above, also as the child of immigrants.

Fjallraven is pretty passé now.

Like a PP never heard of most of those brands. Then again didn’t grow up in London and wouldn’t live there by choice.

Just looked at photos of them. I dont like the look of the Stoke Newington one, but the others, even though the colour is a bit bleached out, still look great fun for the kids. Totally depends on the actual staff though and turnover.

I live in a victorian terraced house and have a babyzen yoyo. Since when are those the markers for judgement? 🤷‍♀️

The house is because it’s all we could afford, and the yo-yo is the only pushchair that folds up small enough for the aforementioned house.

Sounds so pretentious and yes why do their kids always wear dish water-coloured clothing? Yeah cos the child chose that outfit (they’re all into the child choosing and consenting to outfits etc until the child chooses a nylon highly flammable Shimmer and Shine vest and pants set then you can bet they change their tune)

Fenella

I was just merely pointing out that that demographic of person always seems to have those items.

No judgement on the babyzen, we had one of those ourselves. It's a uniform for middle class Londoners, right?

Although I very much doubt that a Victorian terrace is all you could afford, presumably if you could afford a victorian terrace you could also have afforded a flat right?

That's my point, kind of.

You think an apple will be more nutritious than a load of blended veggies and fruit? Christ don't ruin the place with you inverse snobbery

@FenellaMaxwell Victorian terrace “all you could afford?” I think we had to build in at least a £150k period property premium for ours, they are not the cheap option in London!