to expect some old timers of MN to be twirling & scuttling around still

[wizzofwotz]

Haven't been here for probably 15+ years. Went absent, never dipped back in . But today something made me think of the MN support, the laughs, life's highs & lows shared when insomnia kicked after my little DDs were tucked up in bed.

DDs are grown and flown the nest. On reflection it was time well spent. Even the cliquey and other shitty bits. Hope you all keep twirling and scuttling around. If you're new keep with it, it will all pan out.

It was scarily sharp, as in people were back then very intelligent and very funny. Miss it. But also only now remembering the mouldies thing and that I tried to find them and must have failed.

Definitely over 18 years for me but I drifted away for a while.

Posters I remember from my early days:
Aitch
Cod
MorningPaper
TrinityRhino
KewCumber
VeniVediVicki (now on tattle)
Xenia
MarsLady (excellent lemon drizzle cake recipe)
SoupDragon
Peaches

I can’t remember her name but American woman living in Scotland whose daughter sadly died of leukaemia?

It was definitely a quieter place with some clear cliques.

Yes, all of them, I think she might have been called ExpatinScotland, and there was Misdee, and Onlyjoking and Getorfmuyland who was very funny and good at ghost stories.

Oh God this thread is becoming a naming of MN Royalty.

I'm sure the poster who's dd died was expat in scotland.

I see MorningPaper mentioned, if I remember correctly did she not do a weekly round up of the posts. Even that would be impossible now

Yes, ExpatinScotland.

I don’t think it was better or worse then, just different! I was bored on mat leave and not that happy in my relationship when I joined. Mumsnet kept me occupied and helped me to see that I needed to get rid of my partner, took me until 2013 but still, I got there! In a way Mumsnet filled a void for me when I was lonely.

I got drawn back by the feminist pages and I’ve always loved a baby name thread.

I've been here 23-24 years. Lots of name changes and I never was a prolific poster but I've always read a lot. I loved Sparklingbrook's love story and very much hope it's continued.

Put it this way, we have more in common that I would care to admit and what we have in common wasn’t exactly discreet when it came to pillow talk 😉

Well, my return post is likely to get withdrawn by M N H Q.

For obv reasons, please don't use NM names with RL situations that could have been private and not shared openly. Respect.

Was not my intention of this post.

Thanks.

Are you sure that was Sparklingbrook? I don't remember her sharing much about her private life at all. (I was on a couple of offshoot forums with her) Unless you mean her love for Duran Duran?

MorningPaper's Round Up was excellent. Always came out on a Friday afternoon just before I had to teach. Felt sad and short-changed if it was late and I had to wait. 😂

Also an old timer... And yes, I agree that it was time well spent. I grew up on MN really at a time when social media wasn't really a 'thing' and my early parenting days were less lonely because of it. It saw me through a couple of children and a couple of husbands. I really didn't enjoy the early parenting days at all, and was pretty miserable looking back. MN made me realise it was okay to feel that way.

It's funny to look back now and realise how ANCIENT we are, and that some of today's MN posters were probably the children of us old timers.... so we've only got ourselves to blame if they are unhinged contrail-spiracy theorists.

And yes I agree that it gets better. Parenting is an EXHAUSTING 20 years. I'm 50 this year and quite housebound due to long covid, but I'm so much happier now I've almost 'finished' that parenting stage of life. I love pottering about and being exceptionally boring.

Ah yes MorningPapers round up was so fun

Just here to <wave> at everyone.
Been here since 2008. Name changed a few times in the first 7/8 years, can't be arsed now.

There's less witty humour here now, but everyday here is still a school day. So many articulate and intelligent women on here brave enough to say it like it is. More important now than ever.

I've learned SO much from being on MN and i can honestly say i wouldn't be as wise without it.

If the gang of sycophants are the same ones I fell foul of would agree with your description completely. Not pleasant people at all, glad to see them leave.

Aw, we magicked up MorningPaper. @morningpaper
Thank you for making Fridays fun back in the day and hope you are well COVID notwithstanding.

(I am the do it yourself hysterectomy trying to get my mooncup out- my one and only RoundUp claim to fame. I'd probably be deleted as a Herbert these days, but there I was legs akimbo (not sure my legs would do that these days either) with MNers far and wide saying "push it left, shove it up, pull it down, squeeze gently, tug!" Bit like being on Bullseye)

I've been wasting time on here for 20 years. Joined first in 2004.

@ASighMadeOfStone
"Are you sure that was Sparklingbrook? I don't remember her sharing much about her private life at all. (I was on a couple of offshoot forums with her) Unless you mean her love for Duran Duran?"

Oh probably not! My memory is notoriously crap. Someone posted anxiously about being attracted to someone after being a young widow and it turned into a whole beautiful love story. They both worked in the same field, maybe writing or publishing, and it went from there.

It was @Somerville!

Aww, thanks! I am good thanks!

Wonder how you'd be advised to remove your mooncup/womb these days... probably just get shouted at for being a bloody fool in the first place. Probably fair...

I joined back in 2006. It was very different back then. Smaller, obviously, but also very clever, sharp and witty.

I follow some of the old crowd on Twitter now.

Joined in 2010 looking for divorce support and was on a long running thread Dumplings No More which was brilliant and made a big difference to the first couple of years of that particular journey
I come on to AIBU most days and while away half an hour or so which I enjoy but there’s a lot of quite dull threads and often an undercurrent of unpleasantness which I don’t remember 14 years ago but then again I didn’t go on AIBU then !

This was my original username, I pootle about the boards these days using different names and regularly changing.

I was in the Noldies - we splintered but some of us keep in touch still on other platforms. Also meet up from time to time. One sadly died. 😢We used to have epic very fast moving evening threads with common themes like an autoclave, a virtual bar and a photo of an adult outfit with no face hole made entirely from old baby grows. Still makes me chuckle.

I found it a lifeline when the DC were young and I was bored shitless. I wish I’d had access a few years earlier when they were very very tiny but grabbed it with both hands when we finally got it. It was back in the day you had to pay a fiver or something to send a PM?!

Awesomely supportive, kind, very funny women that I feel very lucky I met during those dark days stuck at home.

I'm still facebook friends with lots of old MNers - can't remember who most of them were on MN now, but have loved watching their DC grow up and thrive.

I often look at Active Threads and feel a bit sad that men have not improved.

What was that funny photo of a bat that used to pop up frequently?