The Brand New WEST LONDON MEET-UP THREAD - EALING, ACTON, CHISWICK, KEW, RICHMOND, ISLEWORTH, KINGSTON ETC.

[MrsBigD]

As Nanou01 has declared me group leader here's a new thread to try and arrange our next meet-up

Oldies and newbies equally welcome :)

I'm pretty free for the rest of May, bar some dentist appointments

June is very barren so any entry in my social calendar would be most welcome.

Meet without the kids any evening
Meet with the kids only weekends

When and where would whoever like to meet?

Okay, so y'all want to eat pizza in Richmond at Pizzeria Rustica? That's fine with me (especially since I can walk there from here), and I'm impressed with MrsBigD for being such a soldier and jumping in offering to set it up and all that. I mean, I can do that, too, so please let me know if you need me to check in etc. But then MrsBigD complains about not having a social life besides us mumsnetters, so I guess we need to give her things to do. Obviously she already looked up the venue and its precise address on the net. Once again (here's my wussy disclaimer), I suggested the place because I've actually eaten there a few times and found the pizza and the prices and the service rather decent, especially given my so-far-rather-limited UK experience.

I don't have a social life besides y'all either, I might add. But now I've got all sorts of other family & bureaucratic issues to deal with too. BUT: Please (anybody!) let me know (mumsnet, email, whatever) if anybody wants to meet up/shop/swill coffee/swill wine/hang out near Richmond Green on any given afternoon....

at the miniskirt + see-thru blouse on "granny". Hee. I agree that after (in my case) 24 hrs of labor concluding with a C-section and a few pills' worth of hydrocodone, I also wouldn't give a rat's ass what anyone was wearing. Though I must admit I'm glad that my mom was on the other side of the continent at the time, since she's more of the "chav/slob" look even more so than just the "see-thru-blouse" look. Seeing a fat (and hungry!), healthy, well-oxygenated infant, after it was all over, was all that mattered.

Me Me Me - finally a date I can make and a location that I can get to after work on a Thurs.

Can I come too?

Oh, and I want to be neighborly and invite anybody who cares and wants to bring a kid(s) to the indoor playground at Kew Gardens -- since we live close enough for it to pay off, dh & I decided to get a membership at Kew (which pays for itself if you go there more than 3 times in a year). Which means (until next May) we can get in for free, including children. If anybody wants to meet up there, let me know. We can negotiate on splitting the cost of entry + snacks/tea etc.

Hey, I definitely want to meet up with anyone calling themselves lazycow.

MrsRecycle -- at your mum at your 1st delivery, especially now that I've met her. I think I can picture it, actually. But I can totally relate to your not feeling in the mood for it at the time.
Hope your pg is continuing well! When I was at the point you're at, I felt like a @#$% sausage, and I was honestly happy to see how well you're doing. Also glad the weather has cooled off a little bit!

lazycow - welcome and of course you can come,the more the merrier

Yanks... yes please please please leave the booking and coordination to me. What else will keep me out of mischief whilst in the office???

And yes Kew Playarea is great isn't it. We're there at least every 2nd weekend so really should meet up

Hey Uwila - you are offically "scary" \link{http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=1375&threadid=185307/here}

(I thought so too but was too scared to say so)

bugger here

SJ you've got way too much time to find threads like that . Saying that I just posted on it LOL

Yanks - I'm so enjoying this pg. I really can't believe how well it's going. Probably because I've got no medical staff to worry me all the time (haven't seen a midwife yet).

I've even voluteered to look after Phoenix this weekend along with my niece (so 4 kids). J is horrified but I said I need the practice.

I'm definitely up for meeting with you during the day once I finish work. Kew would be lovely.

The 'can most likely make it's' for the 27th July as far as I can deduce are:

apsmum
Lazycow
MrsBigD
MrsRecycle
RabbitRabbit
SueJonez
Uwila
Yanksuponthames

A proude 8 so far!!!

For those who haven't got time or can't be bothered to wade through this thread

Here is the Thread for the July Meet-Up

Will say my goodbyes to you ladies as i will hardly be online from end of this week and i can't ever seem to make any of the meet ups!!

If any of you are at the Ealing Jazz look out for an exhausted mum of one and poss two!

Otherwise hope you all have a good meal and MrsRecycle hope pg goes smoothly and easier than mine so far!!!!

Good luck Snowboo, hopefully see you at some point this year.

good luck Snowboo, I'll just cat you each time we arrange something and you play it by ear