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

[MrsBigD]

Let's start a new thread the old one is getting too long

I'm off travelling 22-29th but before then I hope I'd be able to 'find' some time but probably not in the week leading up to 22nd as dh would probably divorce me

I don't think you can vaccuum pack a computer a travel kettle, a travel hairdryer, instant soup, laughing cow cream cheese, 20 presents for carers, driver translator, books, dvds, camcorder, camera, associated cables, hard plastic toys for orphanage, vests for orphanage, snowsuit, calpol, metanium, toiletries, towels, pillow, alarm clock, my clothes, shoes, a few baby clothes, biscuits for bribing baby... have I left anything out?... into the size of a suitcase.

blimey hats off for getting that lot into anything smaller than a sea chest you're doing well!!!

can be vacupacked:
vests for orphanage
snowsuit
towels
pillow
clothes

oh and presents for carers? That's a toughy! space saving cards filled with hard currenc instead?

Not being helpful am I?
I just shut up now before you tell me to

Sue

wow - which airport are you flying from? Will your Mum be able to help carry stuff?

Hope to bump into you Fri or Sat - will await your call and good luck with everything until then

Hi Guys! took me ages to catch up with you lot!!!! first of all, SO pleased you are ok fatfox...what a relief . SJ well done on booking those flights! would be good to have an evening before you go. also will you have an open house for your return? to see you of course and meet ds? imposing of course but we could all come with nimbles and stuff
Thank you everybody for your congrats re dh job. we did celebrate on friday and sat nights and it took me til yesterday to recover. felt awful on sunday morning esp when doing sunday school with dd being a right little madam!!! so embarrassing.... anyway. count me in on 15th. quokka... good news re neighbour's dd.

Hi All

I live in Perivale close to Ealing Broadway. I'm Pregnant with my first child which is due in the beginning of Dec. Would be great to meet some mums & mums to be in the same area.

Hi josefinm and welcome . I'm quite new here but everyone is welcome. I live in Gunnersbury so not too far. How preggers are you? I have ds 2yrs and ds 7 months

welcome josefim all newby's welcome

Shall I add you on our West London Stats thread?

mrsbigd - are you getting nosey already?? poor newbies. I say this with the cocky air of someone who was a newbie only a couple of weeks ago - now I'm addicted to MN, esp this west london thread.

shoudl change my name to 'nolongeranewbie'

nosey? who? me? never I just love updating the stats thread LOL

No, you should change your name to OXO. And, as DD would say, do it now!

Welcome Josefinm! Are you coming for Thai on Friday?

Sue, I've never been where you are going. But, if it is like Atyrau, BRING WATER Yes, I know full well how heavy it is, but it sure beats typhoid. Drinks without ice, and no uncooked veg inculding salad because of course it is washed in the water. Have you gotten jabs? If not I can recommend a clinic in Brentford.

Uwila shouldn't that be NOW, my dd always puts great emphasis on that

SJ failing jabs or abstaining from local water, vodka for breakfast, lunch and dinner LOL a friend of mine who used to trek through South America followed that with the slight variation of drinking tequila and NEVER got sick! Well either it was the alcohol or he was just indestructible

Just had to let you all know that ds1 peed in the potty last night! Of course he was bribed and he hasn't done it since, but hey he did it

well done you!!! on sat night; dd "felt" that she needed a wee whilst she was in the bath; so she stood up - bless her - and had her wee like cousin Louis (who is a boy you understand!) . so am going to start potty training again soon. you ok qokka?

yea we're fine, just been a bit hectic.

Had a run in with a neighbour/friend this morning. We have the same cleaner and as I found her (the cleaner) she does my house first and my friend was complaining that I work her too hard. So when she goes to her house she does a terrible job because she's tired from cleaning my house!

what???!!! no wonder you are . your neighbour can always find someone else if not happy but why should it be your fault??!! this is silly!

tell me about it. This is the same lady that complains all the time that her baby doesn't sleep at night and doesn't eat during the day. When i say she shouldn't feed him every 3hrs in the night, she replies "but he wont eat during the day". Arrrhhhhh!

fatfox - I'm flying from heathrow and have a suitcase on wheels so I'm not worried about carrying it, but fitting it all into the suitcase and having to pay an excess luggage fee interanlly. The internal flights have have the luggage allowance of the international ones and excess fee is expensive so trying to keep the weight down.

I think I have run out of time to have jabs {shock], wasn't expecting to travel until sometime October so jab schedule is now impossible! Might possibly try to squeeze a couple in - but yea have been warned about the water.

You could certainly do Hep A at this kind of notice (did it last year a few days before travel), and tetanus if you're not up to date on boosters. And typhoid is recommended "at least 10 days before travel", I think, so you can still fit that in. You'll just have to chance the diptheria and Hep B because those you do need a couple of months in advance.

I would definately go do typhoid and hep a if I were you. Asuming you won't be having sex, I wouldn't worry about hep b. And if you stear clear of sticking rusty nails into your feet then you can probably get away without tenus.

I had hep a and typhoid seven days before travel. Go do it!! And bring water. Man, the runs will spoil your fun if you drink their water. Sorry if too much info, but it needed to be said.

Evenin' All

Does any one remember Z Cars? I bet you do Sue

Seriously...

Josefinm - welcome and do try and join us on Friday if you can. There is another link about the meet up, which I'm too dim to do a link to , but I'm sure MrsBigD will oblige where I can't

I'm pregnant too - due Feb/March

Listen everyone - I felt the first kicks!!! Reassuring after drama of last week and great because usually I don't feel any kicks until 20 weeks. Does this mean I've lost weight, I wonder?

Nice to hear all the wee wee tales

He's pissed off at you cause you went telling people he was no more. He's just saying "hey mum, I'm still here... whack!

Or she...

"Asuming you won't be having sex"

You need to get Uwila and your social worker (who clearly assumes vast quantities of rumpy-pumpy going on incessantly) together to fight it out...

They can let you know what they decide