Hackney/Stokey/Clapton meet-up?

[JenniferCanesten]

Anyone?

Come on, we'll have tequila...

Not really, we'll be nice mums and have coffee and cake in the park.

I used to live in Stokey and miss it and would have loved to come! But not in the UK so boooooooo
The reason I am responding tho is to say how much I LOVE your name

Cheers Querty!

Stokey is teeming with buggy-botherers, it is like the spawning pond of Hackney.

Surely there must be some MNers who don't have a gurt big clique of right-on organic-latte-drinking mates they met at NCT class?
Who have an inappropriate sense of humour and are interested in chatting about stuff of varying degrees of low and/or high culture? I'm not that weird....

Boo. If anyone wants me I'll be pushing the baby round the park, and drawing moustaches on all the statues.

I'd be up for it, but only if there is tequila, and would we have to bring our children? I have no NCT homies and a sense of humour that often reduces a playgroup to embaressed silence in seconds...

Only problem is I'm working ft up to xmas, so could only make it on the weekends until then...

I knew I wasn't the only UnBoden around!

Ok so:

1. tequila mandatory,
2. children optional, (unfortunately I can't drink yet or leave the baby at home but he's already seen his granny stagger into a wall drunk so he won't judge you)
3. weekend ideal all round.
4. offensive/inappropriate sense of humour essential.

p.s. for some reason I have looked at your profile before hackneyzoo - your children are so cute!

I'm only fantasising about the tequila, am 8 months pregnant, so it wouldn't be pretty, mind you it never is, pregnant or not (in fact that's probably part of the reason I am 8 months pregnant )

Saturdays are normally good for me, am in E5 but happy to meet up anywhere in the area, I have pretty much worked out every pub that happily accomodates children within a ten mile radius...failing that a park would be good, especially if there is a cafe involved where I can pay at least £5 for a small latte.

Ahh, congratulations! tequila was the only think I actually craved when I was pregnant - specifically margaritas. Roll on margarita day!

Wish I had known you lot when I lived in Stokey. I found the 'I weave lentils but also think nothing of spending a grand on a buggy' brigade very hard-going in my early baby days in Clissold Park. I used to bus it to Dalston and start random conversations with women shopping in Matalan, just to mix with people who pushed Maclarens and knew the current Eastenders storylines. It was such a relief

ahhh, Dalston matalan gives me a warm glow, but then I'm a bit more clapton than stokey

God, I'd love a margarita, the thought is actually making my mouth water...along with the thought of raw meat and fish

Nnnngggg thing - was typing quickly as baby woke up...

Which pubs in E5 allow children? I can't think of any from when I lived there...that may be crucial information to me in the future.

Does anyone else want to drink overpriced lattes on a park bench with me and hackneyzoo? There'll be a male stripper! And the Official Snack of Mumsnet...Pombears.

Well, the Elderfield doesn't seem to mind in the day time, Princess of Wales by the canal and Biddles sometimes.... not that I hang out with my kids in the pub all that often...oh and Pub on the Park. I think you can smuggle a small baby into any pub though, just stick 'em under the table, they love it, its all dark and cosey and womb like under there.

Yes please! If I'd have known there was tequila lattes and male strippers on stokey's park benches, I'd spend more time sitting on them rather than pacing by desperately trying to get DS to sleep. Am no lentil weaver although must confess to cooking lentils for dinner tonight (much to DH's disappointment). I'm the clissold park side of the world.

Haaaa, I actually have a Bugaboo but I bought it 2nd hand on ebay because it is light enough to carry up all the stairs. I'm now selling it again on ebay though to get a Maclaren as I am having paranoia about looking like someone who would pay all that money for a yummy mummy status symbol.

And people with Bugaboos give you a little smug nod, like "Yeh, we're the shit but in a really nice way because we shop at Whole Foods and used to buy charity shop clothes when we were students before Monty got a job in the city, fnar fnar" and then people who have other buggies look at you like "You're scum. Rich scum. I'm keeping it real with my Maclaren, yo."

Am I overthinking this? Dp thinks I've gone wrong.

Dalston Matalan! Last time I was there a very little boy managed to run up the escalator and everyone in the shop was screaming. I thought he'd got mangled in it and nearly puked, but he was alright.

Did the Elderfield used to be the Eclipse? It was awesome when the two gay guys ran it, we used to play dominos and listen to the jukebox.

I don't think my ds would go under the table, you'd definitely know he was there from the batshit-parrot shrieking.

suchanamateur I am in that bloody park every day. Round and round and round...

Ah..JenniferCanesten, then I'll have to hide my bugaboo in shame . think I could persuade my DS under the table if there was a newspaper there with him. Currently wondering if paper counts as one of his 5 a day? After all, it is a plant derivative. Failing that, any dirt on the floor he can winkle between his sticky little fingers before aiming for his mouth.

It did used to be the Eclipse, with that wierd painting of the Millennium Dome and a zebra...

Well, I have a Maclaren, but, I am in Clapton and a bugaboo just wouldn't be very 'murder mile'. Having a baby fucks with your head and makes you overthink things like pushchairs...and whether or not its justifiable buying your 3 year old a pair of £20 converse (after months of internal debate I decided it was ok to do this)... oh the vacuous thoughts that fill my sleep deprived head.

In the name of equality there should be a female stripper too, it is stokey after all

Oh no, I'm going to look like E5 Maclaren scum next to you two with your bugaboos. `i don't even own a pair of uggs.
Newspaper is definitely one of your five a day, as are small stones, fluff and dog hair, they are all the baby equivalent to Yakult.

It does make you overthink... though what made up my mind was when some cock-end schoolboy went "Ohhhhh what a beautiful buggy!!!" (in the overly sarcastic tones of someone still learning how to use sarcasm) to me in the street for no reason.

Worse than Uggs are the Bodenites who wear wellies to the farmers market, to look rustic. It's not a farm! It's a market in a school playground, in London.

Suchan how old is your ds?

Guess there is a lot more thinking time to fill up when you're up for the fourth time in the fecking night. Although I think I've gone the other way and have just stopped thinking altogether. No wellies or ughs here, just some rather disgusting peeling converse. I can match your 3 year old, hackneyzoo (please let the bloody bold thing work this time).

My DS is 8 months. Bit sad at how quickly he is growing (having desperately wished away his first 3 months) as he had his first hair cut today. His mullet was out of control. DH cut it at the kitchen table and there is now a light dusting of baby heir covering up the dust surfaces. How old are your DCs (apart from hackneyzoo's converse wearing 3 yr old)?

Hair. Uggs. Although quite like Ughs.

I liked Ughs too.

Ds is 4 months - in teething hell, poor little chimp. Biting everything in reach (sorry, MIL's ear) and dribbling and will only feed lying down on our bed (except in the night when he's sleepy) so can't really go far. Not that I was going anywhere further than the park or Dalston Matalan anyway....

My poor DS is sporting the latest style from Salon Mummy, its not very befitting, people keep on saying he looks like a mini boris johnson. Great, I've given my son a tory hairstyle.

My DD is 3.5 and my DS is 22 months, and am expecting DC 3 at New year, so at looking at months of maternity leave looming on the horizon...the other two will be at nursery so hanging out at a non-babygroup environment drinking tequila organic skinny de caffinated lattes at £5 a go would be very much appreciated shortly.

I'll dig out my Ughs in preparation.

I haven't made it to a single babygroup thing yet.

Doesn't Boris Johnson model his own tonsorial look upon a toddler's anyway? I am myself a victim of Salon Mummy though the Calpol & posset styling was not my idea.

DS had a charming quiff/mullet combo but he's mostly lost the quiff now, the redneck was victorious over the Morrissey.

I think I would secretly quite like a pair of Ughs, they look so cosy. Even the cheapass £5 knockoffs...have resisted so far though.

I noticed that Ridley Road has some knock off Ughs, nestling cosily in between the tilapia and upside down chickens.

Have spent much of today's wanderings trying to spot a pregnant woman with a Boris toddler wearing converse and another looking slightly ashamed to be pushing a bugaboo. Round here there are preggos and bugaboos aplenty but few Borises and little shame.

When we meet, do we wear a Pombar on our lapels to spot each other?

Hope teething is calming down. We have teething plus learning to crawl. This equals middle of the night wakings from intense frustration at the lack of forward movement plus much irritated ear pulling. Joy.

Hahaha suchanamateur I have been squinting at Bugaboo pushers in the park wondering if one was you! Shall I start walking about with a packet of Pombears on top of buggy hood as a secret signal?

I am still suffering pram-anoia. It is very foolish, but sometimes when you get caught in a ten-buggy tailback on Church St and every single one is a Bugaboo, a girl can't help but wonder if she has become a terrible cliche.

No relief from teething, DS has started gurning like my grandad used to. Does yours do the commando-swimming thing?

hackneyzoo murder mile ain't what it used to be - apparently Chatty Rd now has a creperie! Woo.