West London Stats thread

[Uwila]

Live: Sunbury
Work: Brentford
Kids(age): DD(3), DS(1)

Great idea I was going to do the same today

Live: Gunnersbury
Work: stay at home mum
Kids: ds 2yrs and ds 6months
From Australia and turning 30 next month!

Live: West Ealing
Work: local
Kids (age): DD 4.5, DS 2yo soon
Just turned 38 but don't look a day older than 37
Planning to move to Australia in a year or so

P.S. Uwila are you vying for the West London Threads Leader Position???!!! hrmph... I'm gone for a few days and she's taking over

No worries, mrsbigd. I am bored at work, and that is bound to change when the Italians come back from their holidays (they ALL take holiday for a couple of weeks in August)

Oh, and how could I have forgotten.

AMERICAN

What do you two do for work? Don't know how you do it, I don't think I could keep down a job and have kids - are you both mad!

I'm a PA in a cushy job and work not for the money but for my sanity

to keep my sanity I have a cleaner that comes once a week.

I work in IT/Engineering in the Oil business. I'd go crazy of I had to stay home with my ornary 3 year old. Roll on full time school... THEN I'll think about staying home.

Well dh says I don't have to go back to work if I keep having kids! He has a unique sense of humour.

Do they have to be HIS kids?

funny you say that. My ds1 has got ginger hair and blue eyes. My DH and I both have brown hair and brown eyes so he was a bit of a . Dh thinks he may belong to ocado man.

Live: Kew
Work: City
Kids: minus 2 months and counting...
Finance director of really realy small company
Age 41 but look about 56 at the moment

Sue, you are going to wave your finger at this kid, aren't you??????????

incessantly

And what are you going to do when he waves his finger at you?

Hi, good idea to start a west London stats page. We can see who lives closeby etc.

Vital stats:

Me 42, older DH
Live in Kew and work in Ealing
Head of Dept in a housing association
Just won "compressed hours" meaning I work 35 hours, but squashed into Mon-Thurs
DS 6 school in Richmond
DD 3 starts nursery there in two weeks
Baby due 03 March 07 but work don't know yet!

Uwila - I will just wave back at him even louder. Good to teach junior some Jonez finger waving technique early

Me 39, dh 40 (I get lots of mileage atm out of old git comments )

Live: East Sheen
Work: Proj Mgr/analyst for software house in the City 4 days a week (one from home)
Kids: One dd aged nearly 4, she goes to nursery atm. Plus a Rhodesian Ridgeback who is my hairy daughter

Would like another (baby that is not dog)

Ooh my next door neighbours have a ridgeback called Seamus, he's lovely. My sister has two vizlas who are both divine. I have two cats who I think are lovely but everyone else says "how odd!" when they spend any time with them.

Hello,

Can I join you guys? Have been lurking MN for awhile now. Hope to join you guys at the meet up next week.

Live: New Malden
Work: Kingston in IT, full time (one day a week at home)
Kids: DS 4yrs and DD 2 yrs
Age: 33

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Welcome, AnnaG!

Hi
I'm here too. Happy to play but generally not weekends (sorry)

me-
age: 38
Kids : ds = 3 and half, dd is 2
live: east twickenham
have not worked since pregnant with ds (work and pregnancy do not mix, apparently!!) but am now looking at going back part time just as soon as I find cushty job on my doorstep that pays shedloads. Any ideas welcome!! Used to be a property director, when my brain was not mush.

xo I was lucky to find cushy job on my door step but unfortunately not shedloads of money LOL just enough to pay for child care. I came by it per change as it was advertised in the local newsagents.

Good luck, from experience I've found that part-time jobs are hard to find and get lousy pay But of course you might be the lucky one to secure the perfect part time job to get rich on LOL

hello ! I'm another from SW London - I think some of us chatted on a kingston hospital thread !

Me: 31
DD: 18 months
Lives: new Malden (hello AnnaG !)
Work: Retired

I've regsitered with agencies and look regularly on the websites but am not very hopeful. I'll happily sacrifice money for proximity so my field is fairly restricted. I'm sure something will come up, eventually. In the meantime there's always the lottery....

How do you guys cope with dropping off kids, collecting kids and the seemingly endless karate/ football lessons? How does anyone manage to fit work in around that lot?

I could always become a hooker (flexible hours, cash in hand), but we would starve to death....

and you'd have more babies too.

My answer to the childcare/school run is to avoid it altogether by having a live-in nanny.