I am just soooo lonely!!

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Have been on my own now for nearly a year, and the weekends are just awful.
Everyone else is busy doing family stuff and I just would love some adult company or someone to talk to in the real world. How do other lone parents cope?

the problem with watching tv is that i,as an lp, now have complete control over the remote.

tortoise i think you may live near me?

Fransmom I only get control of the remote once the kids are in bed! lol!
I am in (whispers) Castle Cary.

Hi Tortie - that's not far from me at all!! I am in shhhhhh..... som-er-ton. Do you fancy meeting up some time? We have some great days out planned with singlewithkids this autumn, we are going on a tour of Exter's passages on 11th Oct,(for over 5's) an Indian meal for the single parents near Bath on 15th Nov (I could offer a lift?) a hallowe'en spooky trail at Hestercombe on 31st Oct, a visit to Explore at Bristol on 22nd Nov, and an evening walk at Westonbirt on Dec 6th. Any of those grab your fancy? You'd be very welcome and we are all very non-scary!

Fransmom - give us a clue then! Wherea are you?

evenings are okish until bed time, i just hate going to bed and then not being able to sleep.
weekends drag and i hate bank holidays.
i have a couple of new friends that are also widows so we try to do something at the weekends.

A meet up would be good MCsomerset.
I would love to take the kids to explore@Bristol. They would love it. Any idea if it is near the train station? Or easy to get to from there?

Meal out would be lovely but not possible at the moment because i have gall stones and have to stay as fat free/low fat as possible . Being booked in for op to remove gall bladder.

ouch! poor you!

I looked on the website www.at-bristol.org.uk/Default.htm
and it says - how to get there -

BY TRAIN First Great Western or Virgin Trains into Bristol Temple Meads station. From there to At-Bristol it is a 20 minute walk, a 5 minute taxi ride, 17 minute Ferry ride or a 10 minute bus ride (8 or 9 First service to College Green - from College Green walk down the side of Bristol Cathedral and At-Bristol will be in front of you).

Save 15% off entry to Explore-At-Bristol with the First Great Western trains all-in-one ticket!
Simply buy one time- and money-saving ticket from your departure station. The all-in-one ticket includes your train fare, discounted bus ride to College Green, and pre-paid discounted entry to Explore-At-Bristol.

Please note:

• Any 3 or 4 year olds must pay for their Explore ticket on arrival at the child offer rate of £5.50. (First's child definition for ticket purchases is 5-15; the At-Bristol child definition is 3-15.)

Ask for this pre-paid package when you buy your train ticket. Call 08457 48 49 50 or visit www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk for details.

Hope that helps!
Mandy

Everybody else I know looks forward to the weekend, and it just makes no difference either way to me. I prefer the routine of the week.

MCSomerset Thats very helpful. I will find out about costs and see if we can go.

hi oj, xxxxxxxx

hello fransmom, it has been a bit mad round here recently hasn't it

it has yes, was how you were a couple of days ago and lo, here you are!!!(((((((((()))))))))

am doing ok, thou was upset by poppyfoxes posts but they have now been pulled

(((((((((())))))))))
lovely new pics oj but pmsl at your "glass" of sangria

i will be having more small glasses of sangria very soon, we are going away in 2 weeks time, somewhere sunny where there will be no phonecalls no in-laws and no mail

lol
i have to go now oj, still having to use library pc - well at least it's free
you and yours have a bloody brill time ok?!!
byeeeeeeeeee xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Don't know if this is of any help at all,
I joined SPICE (uk) a group up and down country which is nothing to do with dateing. Just about groups of people gettin together doin stuff from ramblin to skydivin literally!!
i have booked xmas do and new yr do as i don't fancy sittin in on my own!

Yes my parents have been FAB!

And yes when good stuff happens and there is NO one to share it with it truly truly truly sucks!!!!!!!!

I have to get out of house when my x has child, every other sat , as it is then i just feel totally alone. gotten used to going to cinema on my own!!!!

Spice is a most excellent way (with the blessin of both my parents who babysit seperatly )to get out and meet people.

i am 10 months into being on my own , learnin as i go it seems .

HUGS TO ALL!!!!!!!!!

I feel exactly the same, hate my own company all the time. Would love to do something like spice but have no money or help for babysitters. Am wondering about the idea of letting out my spare room for free in exchange for someone to babysit a couple of nights a week. Trouble is its a really small room so they would be around all the time. Not sure how to do it as it would surely be ideal for a student and it would save me a fortune and could mean I could get a hobby...cos I am sick of being in all the time, it is beginning to drive me demented.

Do you think this is a good plan or a mad one? I actually have a bigger spare room but it has a boiler in it and wouldn't be legal to let anyone sleep in it. I use it to work in the evenings but at a push, could say to them that they could have use of that room plus the spare room to sleep in?

I only joined spice because it was reccomended. tis relatively cheap to join, U choose how little or how much u do. I tend to stick to one thing a month ,for monetary reasons and ds sitting ones, as my baby sitters live 45mins and 1hr 45 mins away respectively!

Rentin a room is a big step, dunno how u'd regulate / check person ?

Your Sanity IS VERY IMPORTANT !!! ((((((()))))))))

was planning to see if I could get a childcare student. There is a college about 100yards from my house.

uuurgh iv not even HAD my little one yet & I hate my own company!!! Been single 4 months now, & whilst Im slowly comin round to the idea that I'm much better off with my ex, the loneliness is still excruciating.

I'm in the Midlands, & would love to join a single parents group, but I don't drive....& I think most of the mums in Single With Kids are a lot older than me? I'm 23....not sure if it was that group I looked at though, or another one

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