Hackney/Stokey/Clapton meet-up?

[JenniferCanesten]

Anyone?

Yay, nightynight welcome in! Any idea where we could meet?

hackneyzoo do you know what time The Eclipse Elderfield opens?

miffster Dougal quote referred to me: having initiated all this I am now a bit shy to go through with it...I presume this is similar to what is commonly known as "the dating site willies"

We could kick off at the mimsy park cafe at 11am then scarper to the pub at 12?

Sorry - nightnighty not nightynight...think I was picturing you mistakenly as Jill Tyrell.

Sorry.

Would that be ok for the most pregnant of us? Is other end of Church Street.

I think I've got the hang of it.

Oh I am a twat, I was thinking the pub was the one by the Church, the Rose and Crown, so near the mimsy cafe in Clissold park. You know, near the church.

I am incoherent today, blame lack of sleep. At this rate, as a new mum I will be a dribbling loon incapable of typing a simple sentence.

This thread is making me v jealous. Was a frequenter of the many places mentioned as a heavy, lumbering pregnant lady a year ago. Now live in Oxford and have DD approaching 1

Do have a lovely time and raise a toast to me if you can be arsed/bothered/remember.

I still visit a lot bc I was a primary school teacher round there and go to hang out with my old buds. Next time I am in town I will keep my eyes peeled for your maclarens. Mine is a bit of a boy racer with reflective wheels and a strip over the hood. Bling.

Shall we go with Miffster's idea anyway? I am empty of good wheezes or even bad ones. My DH is threatening to come along as he's worried you are (his words) 'pervy 50 yr old men'. Groomed by talk of buggies...

Can someone explain how to namechange? I'm bored of mine and it reminds me too much of DS' fucking awful challenging newborn stage. Feel it's time for reinvention.

Sigh. Failed again with strikethrough. We will raise a tequila/ gaviscon to you MsInterpret, and hi to NightNighty. Given up on bold- always get it wrong.

Agree with mimsy cafe in park followed by Rose & Crown. With that kind of lateral thinking, one of us must surely be a man.

11 sounds good, is it the cafe near the playground?

Ohh, nighty I had Theodora, she's lovely.

I will be the huge pregnant bird with boris, tequila, 3 yr old in converse and no ughs and manky maclaren, nearly forgot back to front jumper, and as it's sunday, unwashed/brushed hair....looking for pombear alcoholic bugaboo mummies.

Suchanamateur, tell your DH that sometimes I worry I am a pervy 50 year old man trapped inside a pregnant 31 year old's body.

Canestan, I love Jill.

such I think it gives you option to namechange in profile?

msinterpret look us up for gaviscon cocktails next time you're here!

Marvellous, see you in the mimsy cafe at 11 then, followed by pubbage. I will be 37 weeks and walking v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y so I do hope that none of you are predatory 50 year old men because making good my escape will be a challenging. However, given the location and target audience of Clissold park and the mimsy cafe in particular, any random male predators would easily be corralled and dispatched by latte-fuelled sinewy pilates-hardened women wielding heavy and expensive baby transportation devices.

Great. See you all there. I will be nondescript 30 something without baby, bump or other small hanger on (hopefully). However I will have a wild glint in my eye associated only with those who have escaped without their sprogage. Hoping we get at least one 50 yr old perve for amusement value.

Tis I, Suchanamateur, btw, having successfully namechanged.

Is it the cafe in the park in that great big old building?

Nope- that one currently a building site. Is one in van next to playground (also building site...)

You're right I'm not Jill Tyrell at all. I did see Julia Davis once in Upper Street and she was surprisingly small for all her greatness.

Anyway, I'm not sure I know which mimsy cafe on church street you mean. Does it have a name? Which side of the road is it on?

It is a catering van in Clissold park! Has tables and chairs and a covered area in case of rain though. But noy just any catering van, this is a Stoke Newington catering van with falafel wraps and smoothies.

I have made a flag. I had to eat several packets of 's to do this. They are shit.

I love the 50 year old perv thing - so you pretend to be a mum to get some women to meet you in the park. They then realise - duh! - that you are a perv and not a fellow mum, but all think oh well, lets go back to his for some waterports and spam sandwiches anyway. Don't think my boyfriend has fully thought it through.

Thanks, sounds like I need to dig out some thermals!

We really haven't though through this 50 year old perv thing at all. My dh is at least that old. Take it from me it's the younger pervs you want to worry about!

Maybe you can ask him to come and lurk behind some trees so that no-one is disappointed!

I put it to him but he isn't up for it, surprisingly

Disappionting nightynight. My DH told a roomful of people today (some of whom i really dont know) that I was off to meet some virtual friends tomorrow that I had met online. Cue puzzled looks. I muttered incoherently about mumsnet- no really, s'really good, honest, and people are really witty and there's tequila and strippers and all sorts. Cue pitying looks. See you all at cold clissold tomorrow!

Just made myself giggle imagining turning up with a clipboard and making everyone wear name tags and generally being a shitty party-nazi and totally ruining it.

Also, how will we communicate without emoticons? It'll be: "As I was leaving to come here, dee-aitch was so bracket hmm bracket..."

Perhaps your clip board could also function as an emoticon flash card holder? V efficient party Nazi.