What's some --more-- juicy gossip that you can't share irl but can share with nosy strangers on mumsnet?

[mumofoneAloneandwell]

The follow up thread to my one from last year 🤭

My grandmother’s father died in the First World War, whilst his wife was pregnant with Granny. Except when my aunt found his grave in France he died 11 months before Granny was born 😳

Mine is about me. I was in an awful relationship for years, escaped 8 years ago, but having no support from him and two young kids I hadn't had the chance to go on a single date.

Three months ago I joined Tinder and have had the best time. This weekend I asked my ex if he could actually book a weekend to have the children (he does this very occasionally as hoc) so I could go on a date. He hit the roof and has given me all sorts of abuse and is refusing to "subsidise you while you sleep around." I.e. pay child maintenance... According to him, even though we split 8 years ago, me dating is "distasteful and disappointing".

The truth is I have already managed a flexible work schedule and increasingly independent children to meet with a few men. The sex has been great, including a Dom who has let me live out some long held fantasies...

But I have actually really connected with a couple of men who have become really good friends, and one who increasingly feels like my soulmate. Both men are bisexual (as am I, I know this is not for everyone!) both have been in open relationships in the past. So on Monday I am meeting them both... Then next month extending a work trip so "soulmate" man and I will spend the weekend together in Paris to see where we think it's all going.

Not only that I am doing well at work and in line for promotion at work, so far less reliant on him financially. But all this is uncertain, so I haven't told anyone anything yet, and it would only ever be very edited highlights...

Is the adoption not recorded on the birth certificate?

It is possible to have a different blood group to both parents unless one parent is O.

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My blood type was listed on some of my NHS paperwork. I think it’s from when the midwife took vials of blood when I first got pregnant.

Working as a Fanny?!

There are some very lurid imaginations on here...

I would have told my BIL by now. How could you not? You could always let him know anonymously if you're worried about the fallout, but personally I wouldn't care if I fell out with my sister over it, as that's a bitch of a thing to do.

At least she's taking them out. My DH leaves them where he stashes them in the house when drinking. He then gets upset at me when I find them because 'that was probably from ages ago'.

It's legal for cousins to marry in the UK.

I remember that episode

Did your mum’s circle of friends and work colleagues not ask her how the baby was, what’s its name, etc? I presume she was still married to your dad at the time? What story did they give you—you can’t exactly hide a pregnancy from your children.

Did they have any kids? The mind boggles!

It’s not a secret as such but very much a small world sort of situation and one I felt absolutely terrible for afterwards for a while.

I’m an academic and basically one day was conversing with a second year student about adults who love Harry Potter. We were having a 1:1 discussion, thankfully not in earshot of anyone else. I told her I had a friend at secondary school who loved HP so much she filled her parents dining room cabinets with the Lego, figures, other merch etc and they all went to HP world in Orlando annually, she even learnt parcel tongue.

She asked whether I still spoke to her and I stupidly let slip that I stopped talking to her in my early 20s because she was having an affair with an older married man she worked with and he had a young daughter so I heavily disapproved. He left his wife for her and I just felt too bad for the daughter in particular so stopped talking to her.

When I said the last part, she asked me how old I was so I said 31 or whatever I was at the time. She then asked if my friend was called “Kate” and I was shocked, said yes- how did she know her? She said “she was my Dad’s first girlfriend when he left my Mum…” Turned out she was the daughter I’d felt bad for a decade prior. Could see the cogs going and she said “I didn’t know he had an affair”. I felt like such a twat.

I took her for coffee and cake and kept awkwardly apologising. I mean, I couldn’t have known but yeah. Basically either her mum didn’t know it was an affair either or they’d chosen not to tell her and I’d just blown the lid.

This is disgusting. A terrible, terrible, devastating lie to the child, who has a good likelihood of finding out the truth one day, and a terrible lie to the spouse. I hate such cruelty being paraded as ‘juicy gossip’.

Not her mum! The wife before her!

I would have told him.
She's an evil bitch.

How can she "learn parseltongue"??? It's not real! In the books, it's just hissing!

It's what they were called. They were FANY women but widely called Fannys.

They started as a nursing auxiliary am but ended up doing all sorts of war work. My MiL was intercepting German signals.

I have absolutely no clue at all and it was indeed a series of hisses. This was one of the clues that gave my old friend away, the student knew she claimed to speak it too…

I tend to find that where there's a willy, there's always a way.

Good God, people are weird...

Eh? How would spending time with his wife and kids lead to her snatching the husband? Assume that's what she meant by muscling in. I'd have thought the presence of the wife would be something of a hindrance!

A saying that you dont hear much anymore but oft repeated by my dear departed old DM
"There's nowt so queer as folk" 🤣🤣