to ask if you ever wonder about certain posters/threads?

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i’ve used MN for years, and i often think about particular threads or posters that stuck out to me or i interacted with ages ago that i haven’t been able to find (or just seemed to stop posting without a trace) since then.

anyone else get strangely nostalgic/curious thinking back to threads/posters and wonder what became of them?

@AprilThe8th

I often wonder if the Sistine Chapel lady had a chance to visit any other famous places and get even more emotional

I'd love to see a video of her travel experiences, such as "screaming at the Michelangelo".

Could someone please pm me with name of poster who posted a hotel bedroom as her own ?
I have a suspicion but may be totally wrong.

I'd like to know if Twittlebee ever got her wood back!

I don't remember the finer details, but the thread where the Op was bleeding profusely and was worried about whether she should go to hospital. Some posters blasted her for potentially wasting NHS resources but she called an ambulance in the end - which saved her life as she'd lost so much blood. I remember one of the posters who'd said for her not to go to hospital apologising profusely after the Op's post-op update.

@Teapotsandtablecloths

Mines quite a recent one it was a lady who's username i think was Wardrobes or something like that. Her DH was unwell with covid, then into ICU and he was getting quite unwell and i lost the thread after that. I've often wondered how he is and how she is coping.

This is wardrobes newest thread.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/a4140977-Wardrobes-DH-ICU?msgid=104909349#104909349

@cattypussclaw

I'd like to know if Twittlebee ever got her wood back!

I was thinking about Twittlebee’s wood last night!

I do hope so. It is her Grandad’s woodland.

Anyone know if Twittlebee is still around?

BupcakesAndCunting. I always liked her style and her posts often made me smile but the stand out was when she posted something embarrassing - think spot on vulva, something along those lines, but with a failed namechange. Tons of 'Bupcakes is that you?' replies and she handled it with such good humour, I really admired it! I hope she's still around under a different name.

There was a thread from a few years ago which I would love to know the outcome.
OP had a live in nanny who was pregnant. The nanny wanted to continue living there and have maternity leave while living there
Op was really worried about what to do as she needed for room for a replacement nanny or she couldn't work

Most of the multi-thread sagas turn out to be written by trolls. I remember being completely taken in by a thread about a woman with an abusive husband. It turned out to be pure invention and I felt rather foolish for being so gullible. Since then I've tried to hone my trolldar a bit more.

MN fantasists are a weird sub-category of trolls. I can think of several who posted for years about their imaginary lives. I can only suppose that they are extremely unhappy and have to invent a fantasy life to make life more bearable. It's quite sad, really.

One that sticks in my mind was a young woman, about 24, who had started her career in teaching, was enjoying it and doing really well, but her older husband wanted her to have a baby now. She wanted to wait a few years but he was insistent so she did. Then he said she had to be a SAHM. She didn't want to. So he made it clear he would have no involvement in childcare, would not do any nursery drop offs or pick ups, or contribute any money to the fees, because it was "her decision". He was clearly a fuckwit of the highest order and she disappeared, as I imagine she did, metaphorically, in real life now this shitbag had her where he wanted her. She was desperately unhappy but couldn't see leaving as an option. I still think about it.

@TheChampagneGalop yes! She could start a vlog

LOL
Sorry for being the millionth poster to link to wardrobes thread. I broke off to get the link before reading the rest of the thread!

@JosieJarker I remember the poster with the SC. I always felt so sorry for the children being bought up with a useless father and bitter mother, at least the SC had a reprieve with mum.

I remember her saying once that she never bothered to greet/talk to the SC when they arrived, horrible atmosphere for all the children.

No one worked, quite a few kids.

She just couldn’t see that her DH was ruining all of their lives and projected solely onto the SC, carefully calculating who got what resources.

I hope she’s left him is happier and has a productive life/career and DC are healing.

I often wonder how ghostspirit is, she had a few kids and a wastrel partner. Was always moving from one predicable calamity to another.

I always wonder about expatinscotland. She used to post a lot and then disappeared.

Yes it was quite sad and very frustrating, she used to post quite a lot with some problem or other, inevitably caused by her husband being a selfish lazy prick who was taking advantage of her, but she projected it all into the step daughter and her mother.
I hope the step daughter is ok.

I miss Della, from OTBT. I often wonder about her

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The poster I've never forgotten was called TheLastOfTheNappies and her thread was in Relationships. It was called something like 'help me have a good relationship with my MIL or DH and I will split'. Her and her DH had changed their DD's name quite late on and she'd accidentally found out that MIL was planning to throw the DD a first birthday party in her old name and the DH was taking the DD without involving or even telling the OP. There were other quite serious issues with the MIL but the OP stopped updating at some point and we never found out if she saved her marriage etc.

It was about 10 years ago now but I do think of the OP whenever threads like this come up.

@Daisychainsandglitter

I always wonder about expatinscotland. She used to post a lot and then disappeared.

Same here. I actually think of her daughter often, I remember Expat sharing what her favourite song was and it's on my playlist. That was one of the periods where it felt like all of MN came together to support one of our own.

Don't think that would happen now.

2 for me, I dont know if they were trolls but, the lady who had a teenage ds who was into all kinds of terrorism etc and she had to contact police and things were found on his computer....dont know how that ended.

And the other one that really bugs me that I dont know the outcome was, a lady that moved into a culture like village and there were numerous weird things going on, moving stones, people standing in the pitch black staring at the house, as soon as night hit there was bangs on the door and all kinds of other frightening things.....I was so invested haha

@PinkGlitteryTiggs

I miss Della, from OTBT. I often wonder about her

dellacucina? Doesn't she post in S&B, on the 'What are you wearing today?' threads?

I wonder about the poster who said the dog kept sniffing her husband and they were worried it was cancer.

EatShitDerek wasn't banned?? She was in a difficult domestic situation, if I remember rightly, and poured her heart out here - but then got horribly outed IRL, I think. I thought she name changed but ultimately she may have vanished and had all her posts deleted (haven't looked).

I remember because she was very witty and I missed her posts. If I've got the scenario wrong someone who knew ESD better might correct me!

Some of the really unreasonable stepmum threads - shocking (I mean abuse level stuff) and the fact they couldn't see it was abuse.

Blackening the name of every good stepmum out there