Oxford leg of breastfeeding pinic - ruty,mrsbadger,wmmc,vacaloca,stellawasadiver,berolina,harpsi,practicallyperfect etc

[VictorianSqualor]

I know there will be Oxford MNers I haven't mentioned, forgive me!
There is possibly going to be a breastfeeding picnic arranged for the Oxford area on July 21st.
Can you make it??

ok will do my best. bruised baby and all...

have emailed you with my number..

Yes and it's not unhygienic to bf in a loo!

Apparently you shouldn't do it on a train, in front of other children

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Just listened to the interview. Yay for you VS! I'll be there at around 1pm and I'll be bringing a friend with me who volunteers at the baby cafe. I'm not sure if you can park in the park itself - does anyone know? If not, I'm pretty sure there are some 2-hour spaces on Parks Road nearby.

you can't take cars into the park itself but there are lots of pay-and-displays:

Museum Road, Keble Road, Blackhall Road £3 up to 2 hours

Mansfield Road (my favourite) £3 up to 3 hours

Norham Gardens, Bradmore Road etc £2.50 up to 3 hours

I wouldn't bother trying St Giles, it's always crammed, but if you manage it it's £3 up to 2 hours

i'll be there at 12.30 pruners!

Oh thanks MrsB - Norham Gardens is the road I meant. I'm very impressed with your knowledge of parking times/rates for the area!

oh I cheated, it's via Google from a site for people staying at Keble for conferences etc

So..... how did it go? Or are you all still there ?

Picnic was good, nice turnout of friendly people, not all regular MNers so VS must have done a good job with the publicity. Does anyone listen to Jack fm? We had our pictures taken by the Oxford journal and Mail

I think we are all home now

it was fab

although I missed Pruni, and Harpsi didn't make it as she was with someone in labour

the someone was in labour, not Harpsi

dd hammed it up for the camera, was sick on VictorianSqualor's dd's rabbit, stole a shoe in M&S and then weed in the carseat on the way home

we have had a lovely day
[covered in slime emoticon]

Glad it went well (if a bit messily).

i was there but had to leave early. sorry i missed many of you..

Delurking (as one of the non-regular mners) to say hello and it was nice to meet you all today.

Oh dear MrsB - sounds like you went above and beyond
Durham picnic went well!

Hey all, not impressed with the comments on www.oxfordmail.net/news/headlines/display.var.2403774.0.mums_make_breastfeeding_stand_in_parks.php but I think it went fab!

FiL just phoned to tell me he heard me on the radio and thinks I sounded great

Lovely to meet you all, even though DD&DS deserted me toward the end in favour of MrsBadger

Yes, I saw that too.

(the Oxford Mail link, that is)

have you seen the photo in the Oxford Mail?

oh we are a lovely bunch

EEk!!!!!
Anyone need a copy of the paper?
Apparently it's going out in tomorrows edition, DP can get free copies and may as well make the most of it as he leaves Friday!

Shocked at those Oxford Mail comments so very glad we did it!

It was lovely to meet people and sorry DD was getting a bit cross

I didn't even notice she was lol!