WEST LONDON MEET-UP THREAD - AUGUST 2006 - EALING, ACTON, CHISWICK, KEW, RICHMOND, ISLEWORTH, KINGSTON ETC.

[MrsBigD]

I'm bored so here's a new thread to organise our August meet-up

Uwila suggested
10 August or
24 August

I can do 24th

West London Girls,

Can I join you?

Me 43
DH even older
DS 6
DD 3
Due date 3 March
Live in Kew
work Mon-Fri

Do you girlies meet up? Have you all known each other for absolutely ages? What is the MN Christmas party - anyone been to one before?

Just a quick reply Fatfox as have a Russian lesson in about 15 mins and not dressed yet!

I'm relatively new to this clique - only met everyone a couple of months ago, alos in Kew, meet up about once amonth usually in restaurant but next one will be at my gaff in Kew

Thursday evening 31 August Chili cook off (as the YAnks on here say)

Full details to follow.

Can we have a roll call of everyone who definitely coming on 31 August and those who may come.

Then I'll send out instructions and directions...

I am DEFINTELY coming
'twill be a disgusting hell hole here no doubt and I will be raring to get out

have just realised that as of then will have no PC and no telly
yes will definitely need to get out of the house

I'm coming. Though it isn't a chili cookoff since no one else is cooking any chili. Oh, and do we need to sort out whose bringing what. I think we started to, but not sure it got very far. At the very least, I believe everyone is committed to bringing some kind of booze/beverage.

Let allocate responsibilites once we know who's coming.

And I shall be having a cook off against myself - veggie chili vs meat!

Suejonez

Thanks for the invitation, I'd love to come and meet you all, specially as its so close. My MS should have subsided by then. I just cooked some M&S smoked haddock pies and had to run out the kitchen because the smell made me gag.

Can I bring a deliciously fattening pudding? errrr, it may not be home made.

welcome to the ´clique´ fatfox

SJ I´ll be there on 31st! I do a wicked guacamole if I can find avocados that aren´t fit to kill birds with

So far

Definites:
Suejonez
Uwila
MrsBigD
MrsJC
Nanou
Fatfox

Maybes/or haven't confirmed recently:

CountessDrac
Apsmum
Fisil
Sophable
Quokka

Think I'm missing someone....

I'm in, what would you like me to bring?

I am coming and so is Sophable (so she says)

UPDATE...

Definites:
Suejonez
Uwila
MrsBigD
MrsJC
Nanou1
Fatfox
CountessDrac
Sophable
Quokka

Maybes/or haven't confirmed recently:
CountessDrac
Apsmum
Fisil
Sophable

Hmmm - may become a bring a chiar party rather than bring a bottle!

Ok I'll work on 9-12 people and think about what we'll need later in the week.

Should we reconsider the venue? Don't want to swarm you with unruly mumsnetters.

I'd be just as happy at a restaurant. Although I'm sure your chili is much better than anything on a commercial menu.

Hi all - I am a newbie here- just found this site today- so if I am posting in the wrong place, let me know.
I am moving back to Twickenham from Dubai in September- mixed feelings about that,but there are so many things from London that I miss. Would be interested in any September onwards get togethers. Have DS age 22 months- have been in Dubai since he was 2 months.

I wouldn't worry - if there ends up too many to squeeze around the kitchen table, we can have a running chili buffet and can spread out into the living room too. And I know Americans like eating outside, so there's always the garden...

(only kidding about the chairs - I have enough folding chairs to sit everyone!)

Hi BigKat - here's as good as anywhere I guess!

I've only been to two meet-ups but they seem to gravitate around Richmond/Ealing. Which side of Twickenham are you moving back to, where you here before you went off to sunnier climes?

This group seems to meet pretty regularly - seems to be about once a month.

Hiya Bigkat, and WELCOME! This started as an Ealing thread. But since I work in Brentford, I decided to crash it about 6 months ago. And now they can't get rid of me. I live in Sunbury, have two kids DD aged 3 and DS aged 1. We go to church in Twickenham. DD starts nursery there in October. So, the plan is she'll start reception there next year.

You can tell us all about Dubai. I've never been. But, I here it's very nice.

PS Uwila - no black beans in Sainsburys - sorry, red beans it is...

I worked in Brentford, next to Gunnersbury Park, until I was 8 months PG.
We will be living between Twickenham town centre and Teddington when we get back- Popes Grove area. We have lived there for 8 years, so it is all familiar, but I haven't really lived there as a mum, so would be keen to meet some new pals.
Dubai is a good place to live- but you can' t beat home !!! Loads of construction going on here at the moment- will be interesting to pop back and see it, when it is finished. The tallest building in the world is slowly going up across the road from where we live. Currently the temp is around 47 C- never visit here in summer.

I work next to Gunnersbury Park. On the Great West Road / M4. Are you close to Twickenham Green then? If so, Holy Trinity runs some toddler groups.

Fine fine. I can live with Kidney beans. But, your Sainsbury needs a good shake up in the sticking purchasing/department.

Uwila- I worked in Park View- it was a new glass fronted trendy looking building, close to the roundabout. I was working on an oil and gas project-DH is in the same game- that is why we are here in Dubai.
I am very close to Twickenham Green, so will check out the playgroups. Thanks for that..

Oh, bloody hell. What a small world. I'm typing from the 3rd floor of Parkview, where I work for an American E&C.