Hackney/Stokey/Clapton meet-up?

[JenniferCanesten]

Anyone?

Pee-Emm-Ess-Ell!

Am here! Red scarf brown sheepskin hat black coat !

We are now in the Rose and Crown

oh I missed you all
I got to the cafe in he park at 11.35 (after accidentally joining ds for his morning nap) and couldn't see a group of women pregnant or accompanied by children so assumed you'd moved on somewhere warmer. I couldn't have stayed out long anyway.

I'll watch this space for news of other meetups.

Sorry nighty we had a wander round the park to keep the children busy: we came back to see if you'd arrived but must have missed you by about 10 minutes....next time!

Lovely to meet you all earlier.

P.S. Miffster I'm sorry I think I over-shared re: birth, it was too recently to have got the hang of self-editing I think . Hope I didn't do the old terrify-a-pregnant-lady trick - it was honestly fine, and I actually enjoyed (which sounds weird, but I did) almost all of it. You spend so long waiting for that moment, it's a relief to get on with it. You'll be fine!

Boris has clung onto the pom flag all day...it is currently presiding over his cot!

Lovely to meet you all...sorry we missed you nighty (largly down to my two city dwelling unhardy toddlers moaning about the cold and needing some form of distraction).

Hope Boris and converse girl didn't put everyone off toddlers for life!

No worries, I think I passed you all anyway as i was rushing into the park. At least I passed a collection of people who would have fitted your descriptions, but by the time that had sunk in I turned around and you'd disappeared. Hope to meet you all another day.

It was v. lovely to meet you all - Jennifer, no you didn't overshare! I've already read the most fearsome bits of the childbirth forum for months and anyone who met your DC couldn't fail but be charmed by the reminder of what it's all about! Thank you for talking to me about it. And thank you everyone for all the tips of what to do with a small baby.

And Boris and Converse Girl are fab, I am pleased they are carrying the Pom Bear standard forward in Stoke Newington.

I think we should do it again, with mulled spiced alcoholic beverages, maybe in the Rose & Crown by the fire in December/Jan, would anyone be up for that? We could always push prams round the park first in order to justify 'needing a quick nip'.

Sorry to have missed you Nightnighty...next time?

Sorry to have missed you nightnighty- I'd defo be up for doing it again, especially if it includes log fires and mulled wine. Might bring DS this time to prove he's real! He is currently trying to use a plate as a floor frisbee which is giving me a few moments to mumsnet but will probably end in broken crockery...

Hackneyzoo- thanks Boris and converse girl for coming along to hang out with strangers in the cold. I'd have protested far more heartily than they did!

Oooo, mulled wine and fires....I will definitely not bring my DCs if thats the case! But will look forward to meeting Bandersnatche's imaginary DS and Miffster's tiny new boy and Nightynighty of course!

Hi all, just wondering if hackneyzoo or miffster had new little babies yet?

I just came on to wonder that. Any news?

We've had colds, bronchiolitis and now I've got novovirus just as DS has reached the joys of the 9 month sleep regression. Nothing like puking while bfing I find. Found myself wishing that DS was imaginary st about 2am this morning. Just for the duration of this vom-fest of course...

Hope others are in more festive spirits than me. And good luck with the new arrivals. Tinsel round the Moses basket and all that.

No baby here, still 3 more weeks to get through. Miffster might have her snuggly newborn though.

Hope you're feeling better bander.

Oops - sorry Hackneyzoo for being one of those "Have you had your baby yet?" people! How's Boris and Conversegirl?

Bander that sounds truly miserable! If you want an hour to lie on sofa puking sleeping, I would be happy to babysit Baby Bander for you. I know I'm nearly a stranger but I am not a nutter and will absolutely not steal your baby as I already have one and he's quite hard work, thanks!

Sounds like a horrible few weeks - DS has had a blocked nose (wakes up honking and trying to remove own nose at least every hour)plus the teething evils and feel a little fatigued but if I was puking while feeding I would be tempted to abandon this motherhood lark and take him back to Homerton for a refund.

I went to a weaning group thing at the doctors today and there was one (possibly French) woman who kept asking really funny questions.
The woman leading the group eventually started to visibly lose patience - everything she said, the woman piped up:

"I can feed the baby nuts? Because they have good fats yes?"

"So...I don't like the cows, I just don't like, I can give goats milk for the baby?"

By the end, the nuts one had me giggling into ds's hair.

Do Homerton do refunds? That's good to know, will bear that in mind with the next one, as long as there isn't some kind of 28 day return policy.

Hope all the ill babies are feeling better, its that lovely bright green snot time of year, made doubly worse when they pass on thier grubby little germs to you. Plus you end up spending most of the time walking around unaware that you have dried snot dribbling down the shoulder of all your tops.

Like the sound of nuts french woman.

Well converse girl and boris have encountered so many different Hackney versions of Santa over the last week they are completely confused and high on a mixture of pure sugar and badly sung christmas carols. Hopefully they'll come down on Boxing Day and sleep til new year.

Ah bless. "Is you been a good little Boris tho?"

If anyone else grabbed hold of me by the ears and sneezed all over my face, I'd probably headbutt them. But when it's a baby it's still kind of cute.

How are you feeling this close to the end or does it all become 2nd nature 3rd time around? I don't suppose you have as much time to think about yourself with two smallish ones at home do you?

I'm just worried it will drop out and I might not notice.

Happy New Year! PMSL at Hackneyzoo's newest addition dropping out without her noticing. I can just picture someone tapping you on the shoulder in Tescos saying 'um, sorry, I think you've dropped something'.

The babies should have arrived by now I think so I hope they are wonderful little bundles for you both.

We're amazingly illness free right now, but I'm sure that will be remedied in the next couple of days. We've also had terrible sleep so [whispers shamefacedly] we did some sleep training over the weekend, which seems to have worked and we're seeing improvements. Otherwise the refund question was becoming increasingly pertinent.

Hope the weaning is going well JenniferCanesten- lots and lots of nuts for your squirrel baby. Thanks for the offer of DS sitting. My non reply was not because of stranger danger but simply because I was at my parents in an area that the Internet and mobile phone companies do not know about yet.

It's all gone quiet...
Well, I had a baby! It took forever though, she was really late and it all got rather tedious and boring. But now its almost spring I feel I can leave the house oncemore. Anyone up for a coffee and a brisk stroll around the park followed by wine in a pub?

Hello! Congratulations on your baby. What did you call her?

I haven't been on mnet for ages, got a bit samey if you know what I mean.

I am up for wine'o'clock at any o'clock, somewhere with a playground for Boris though! I presume Miffster has moved to Bermuda paradise by now, I think she was moving when her baby was 4 months which he must be by now I think?

Yes, congratulations HackneyZoo. Commiserations for the lateness though - I went to 42 weeks and enjoyed all but the last two of them. My feet still aren't right.

I'd be up for a meeting and it's certainly better park weather now. Is clissold the easiest for everyone? Would a week day be possible?

Excellent lets do a meet up! Boris and Converse girl are at nursery on Mondays and Thursdays...so am happy to meet on those days so I can concentrate on enjoying a glass of wine on spending time with the baby. Any day is fine really, Converse has nursery most days now (thank you Sure start!)

You'll all be pleased to hear I have spent the weekend trying to improve my tolerance for alcohol, its been a while, but I worked hard at it and am no longer scared of passing out under the table after half a pint of lager shandy.

Is the playground open in Clissold yet?
Everyone elses babies must be crawling about now?

Either Mon or Thurs fine with me. Clissold playground not reopened yet but is looking pretty Boristastic so far anyway. How about Pub on the Park in London Fields? We could sit on the nice decking out the back in the sun and drink tequila shandy.

Batshit finally got the hang of crawling forwards as well as backwards and at neck-cricking speed so we are currently awaiting delivery of a lovely cage for the living room. I fondly remember exotic activities such as tea-drinking and The Internet.

We should IM miffster just in case (feel very modern and tech-savvy using IM as a verb - slippery slope though, surely only a short skippy step to saying "Let's partay!")

Excellent...we are going away oop north to visit family until 13th...so some time after then....mmm..... a bottle glass of fine cheap wine on the decking in the pub on the park sounds like an exotic fantasy, I'm in