Anyone live in Northern France?

[lummox]

We're in the Pas de Calais - would be nice to meet up with anyone else who has small children.

or big children?

medium sized children?

Saturday probably wasn't a good day to start this thread

Give it a bump on Monday.

(Now I've said that dozens of N France dwellers will pop up this evening )

Thanks for the tip JanH.

Bump.

Hello lummox, we are a bit far from you, down in the Vosges. Hoping to move near Paris later this year.
We really should have a MN France meetup one day though...

We dont live there but are often over as have holiday house in Ault, nr Le Treport.
Have you tried "living France" forum to find other people locally?

I am also a bit far away - in Bordeaux....

Hey - thanks for replying! Glad there are some other folk around, even if a bit far away.

GGG and Nightynight I think I've had useful French living advice from you before. Are your dh/dps French?

Miggy - I'll try Living France. Have tried a few expat-type websites but there aren't many folk with children.

It's really mostly for the baby/toddler activities that I'd like to try and meet people. Not sure if it is just our region but there is practically nothing in the way of baby and toddler groups.

My attempts to ask about them with people locally (as a prelude to maybe setting something up) have met with polite incomprehension and slightly intense questions about why you would go to someone else's house with your baby and what you would talk about.

It's odd because people are keen to come round and drink aperitifs and chat endlessly. Just nothing much happening with kids.

hi lummox
dx is not french, but he speaks the language perfectly which did help.

there are no mother and toddler groups that I know of near us either. Check out the district nurse/health visitor. Ours holds a surgery in the mairie once a month, and she knows everything there is to know about French baby and child care .