Newcastle, Durham and surrounding area Christmas night out!

[Indith]

It is time to gather the troops :) All are welcome, newbies, lurkers, usual Durham thread rabble and anybody else out there.

First up a vote on the date:

4th December

Kara
Indith
Juney
Frozen

11th December

Leggy
Indith
Juney
Frozen

Small babies welcome. We all know how much you can long for a meal out yet be unable to bring yourself to leave the baby so as long as you are happy to bring them, we are happy to have them.

Please suggest places to go for a nice drink or 2 (cocktails anyone?) and a meal. The date which most people can make will be booked.

Trying to work out when I started now!

Ok I started in 2003 I think (D was senior Man, his impossibly beautiful gf S was welfare if that helps match the year) Ds was born in 2007 while I was still there. Graduated in 2008.

Like my new name??

Indith - Ooooh, yes - I snogged D in freshers' week 2001 but he definitely moved on to better things, and 2003/04 saw me living in Owengate, so we almost certainly overlapped then. Did you live in college?

Sparkle - because I have some fairly severe scarring from my own encounter with chickenpox and reacted particularly badly to the virus (hospitalised ... v v rare but makes me concerned for DDs nevertheless). They're due to start nursery in January so I'd like to set my mind at rest before then.

Stealth - yes! How does one do a name-change?

PS - am I right that there's a LLL meeting next Saturday? Hope so, have booked DH's babysitting services for toddler so will bring along little one.

Lovely SPH :)

Frozen you do it in MyMumsnet, you just change the name in your registration details and save it. You won't lose your current name, it remains yours so you can change back to it at any time.

I lived in Moatside, oh the joys! My room became a kitchen in the refurbs, I had a wobble moment helping a fresher move into my old room number, got there and it wasn't my old room! at snogging D. He was so short! Not sure about short men. Did you know his little brother then went to Castle, poor boy spent his years there known as mini D or midge.

oh I had forgotten about that FN! It's going to clash with coffee and cakes :( Might have to talk to DH about it as I think he is painting the ceiling and will want me to take T out, but I really don't want to take him. Not sure what to do...

Sorry, hadn't noticed your reply about the chicken pox, that sounds nasty :( not surprised you're worried

No! you can't miss coffee and cakes!

If you want to go to LLL send T round, can come to coffee and cake with us and then the boys can play. What time is the meeting?

When is coffee and cake?

My friend M is in labour btw!

She went in for an ECV as baby was breech, only the baby has now turned, so they have gone and induced her(she has sky high BP) :) Won't be long now!
She and her DH are very excited :)

:) hope it all goes well!

Coffee and cake at the village hall, it is a monthly thing. I love this village!

hello (this thread has been busy!) - just popping in to say please add me to that list for 4 December. Looking forward to it a lot :)

Great :)

Oh yes, sorry this is exclusive coffee and cakem unless you all want to come here - you'd be welcome in the village hall I'm sure :o
Speaking of coffee and cake though, we do need to have some - what are people doing on Monday 29th?
How's your friend doing Kara? Any news yet?

Indith - yes, he really was (is) short although a lovely chap. We were both at a boatclub thing and veeeeeeeery drunk. Ah moatside, do you remember how the bottom floor used to flood in the winter? I decided to share a room and thus ended up in the Keep in first year which was lovely but had lots of stairs. Luckily my roommate turned into my best friend, I know other folks sharing a room didn't have such luck. What subject did you read? Did you meet your other half in the college? [nosey emoticon]

Stealth - Think I could do the 29th for a couple of hours' necessary break from the interminable chapter I'm writing, coffee and cake good for the brain and more importantly the soul.

Kara - belated thanks for the e-mail re: peer supporter training, I plan to quiz Stealth/Indith about Durham-based training when I see them next . Hope your friend's labour is going smoothly.

I have attempted a festive name-change, although it's not very witty. Clearly I need some practice!

'threads I'm on'

I sent an email to Indith and Kara and SPB last night but I thought I'd mention it here too.

There is a lady from Durham Council looking to talk to breastfeeders as part of her healthy lifestyles remit and was asking about bf groups. She now has a few but I gave her the idea of attending one of our meetups to get feedback from some hard core mamas.

Maybe she can attend one of our meetups or possibly push her to source some more structured support. That is, at least two of us have been trained with funding coming from local government, I think, but now nothing is being done with the investment. It is deffo some feedback they need to hear.

any takers?

Right, off my soapbox and back to the galley.

Foxy - will read my email, but yes I would be happy to talk to this lady. One of the things that has frustrated me is that SBC have the funding but it has taken months to get anything organised in terms what we can do.
I went to the MW drop in/Healthy Start Clinic last Friday which I will be doing from now on, except this Friday as I have a meeting, and that is the first time I have been able to actually do anything, not that I did but I had a general natter with some of the mums.

Sorry posted a bit soon there!

FNP (like the name!) no problems about the email, glad it helped :)

And my friend had a baby girl this morning

Lovely news Kara

Yes Foxy I got it and will forward it to SPB and anyone else who wants it. Am going to have a proper look later when I can be uninterrupted by dcs.

Oh yes, Frozen I didn't reply to you Moatside was such a dump, I can't believe some of those lower rooms were allowed, they turned them into the gym and stuff though. Wish I had had the chance to live in the castle inself , 2 of my friends shared the top gatehouse room, it was lovely up there. Dh was in Chads, we both did Russian :). I did combined arts.

Dh going out for curry tonight and staying over with his mate so he can drink and not worry about getting teh last bus . Roll on December!

Not long to go now!!

Ah finally I get back to MN. Actually I've been sent home sick from work so I can indulge without feeling I should be doing something else

Am looking forward to curry- I'd put a picture of myself on the FB group but I am camera phobic so don't have any but I'll be the one with a small bump arriving with juney. BTW does anyone else want a lift in/home? Don't mind driving out of the way- just need instuctions on how to get there!

Ooooh Indith thinking of having another? You are just trying to even things up between us aren't you?! My MW is the same one I had with H and she just put me straight down for homebirth- guess after last time she reckons I have no chance of getting to the hospital

FN I'm afraid I won't be coming to the LLL meeting this month. Hope you enjoy it and I'll be able to come to the next one, when DH can have DS

SPB clicky clicky fabulous name by the way , classic thread

spiggy no juuuust yet. Homebirth sounds like a good plan. This one will just drop out while you are doing the dishes or something.