ANYONE FROM WILTSHIRE

[onehappymummy]

Hi there

Newie on the site....wondered if anyone from Wiltshire. I live in Devizes with 1 ds of 23 months!
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try putting trowbridge in the search messages box, powder28

Slightly off the subject here but it Is a potential meet up! You may have noticed the 'Mile for Maude' activity going on at the moment, I've agreed (!) to organise one locally. It will be in Calne (sorry for those of you who thought you'd escaped ha ha) purely because that's where I live and can publicise it the most.
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Be great to have a load of Wilts Mums on the day!
PP - Dan will be in buggy as still not walking lol!! See u soon

i am interested , keep looking on the official site, but no venue listed yet.?

Hi Mufti, will have a venue confirmed this week will let you know as soon as I do!
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I?ve only just found this thread!! So hi all, especially Mufti and LadyOfTheFlowers, as I?m in the SRNN (in fact it?s probably my number you have, and probably me and my baby you?ve seen in the Adver far too much of late! And I live in Highworth too!).

We are planning a coffee morning sometime soon, usually we meet in Starbucks in the Brunel centre as it?s central. We still haven?t organised getting to the pub, but we usually go to the Dockle Farmhouse.

We do talk about nappies (obviously) but we are basically a group of mums who do have other interests, so really anything goes!!

Pramaholic - would love to do the mile for maude with you (even in calne!!).

Have you sorted out a venue?

I have tried to download the forms but my laptops not letting me.

o) that Dans not walking yet, but he's still got time, bless him!

Hello

I would be intrested in joining the swindon real nappy network. I have just been converted to cloth and am a cloth addict allready. I have two boys 4yrs and 14m plus 1 due in july. Whats this about our council (swindon) doing a scheme for resuasble nappies i phoned them a short while ago when i started to buy mine and was told there was nothing. I have brought all my nappies second hand im going to miss out now. Steph

Steph - you might not miss out - do you still have your receipts? For more details, and/or if you want to join the SRNN, contact us. You can reach us through our website , just put MN as the subject.

Oh, and you can claim on second-hand nappies!!

Hi, I live in Wroughton and got a 5 week old baby boy. I was wandering if there are any meet ups around. Would like to meet up for chat and coffee and to just get out of the house!

Hey Firstone, I am in west Swindon so not all that far from you

Feel free to drop me an email if you fancy meeting up sometime ,.

Calling all Swindon and surrounding area's mums ! Maccy D's at west swindon have a toddlers morning on wednesdays. Basically you get a coffee and a fruit shoot cheap and they provide colouring stuff for the littlies . Been wanting to go for ages but feel too shy to go on my own ! So anyone fancy having a meet up there next wednesday ? Will find out times and prices tommorow. OR ELC do a toddler play morning I think on Tuesdays, so that may be a better alternative as town is a bit easier to access for more people than West Swindon !!

Or we could always do both hehe

Guess my initial thougths were right, I am not with the in crowd , so am to be ignored at all costs ! Cheers everyone, hope you never feel as alone as I do , I really truly do, because I would not wish the lonliness I feel on anyone. Because I cannot get to the other side of Swindon to meet up I am shunned.

Thanks

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foryou mumofeight, netmums has a local meet a mum section ,worth a try, it is hard, and you are not the only one who gets lonely, you only have to look at similar threads. hth

hi Firstone..... Have you thought about registering for post natal exercise courses....there's a fab course that runs at Canons on a Monday ( an old friend of mine runs it and she's brilliant) yu don't need to be a member of Canons to join the class, you meet new mums...and its a weekly session that runs for 6 weeks..not too early in the morning too....

hopefully, the link is

here ....

The NCT also run a drop in session on a Thursday morning 10am, in Toothill, and Mini Musicians run a baby session...

Hope this helps

(use to live up the hill from you in Winterbourne Bassett. now in Somerset !)

Thanks Mufti, tried that too, no response. Its what Swindon is like sadly, if you are not the 'perfect' mum, complete with own car and just the one child, you are treated like an outcast. If you have a SN child its even worse.

Boobsgonesouth, the NCT is great .. if you meet the expectations above, If you have a SN child they shun you, if you live in a council house they refuse to talk to you, and if you do not own a car then you are unable to attend any of their outings !!

I have been assured by friends around the country that this is not a 'NCT ' problem, as most grouops are really friendly ( and have tried a few whilst we have been on holiday, all really friendly!) Its Swindon. Its the unfriendliest place in the UK in my opinion.

I really wish things were different, but they aren't I wish I had a car, that my daughter was not ill, but the fact is thats what my life is, cannot change it, and Swindon mums will continue to shun me for it !!

Well seems I have eb=vidence to back me up now !! Readers Digest conducted a survey as to the most Family friendly place to raise a family... Swindon came 391st out of 408 !

Seems I am not alone in feeling this place is the pits

Read the article here

...good thing that I moved to Somerset then .....

.....though I found that there was always so much to do with babies, pre schoolers, toddlers and young school children much more, tbh, than there is to do here in the sticks.....

I met loads of lovely ladies and am still in contact with quite a few......

Maybe it's because it's just become so big that it's lost a bit of the personal touch ????

Thanks Boobsgonesouth, that is great piece of information about the NCT. I have emailed them for some information so hoping I will get that soon and start to get out. I am pretty shy so hoping that someone will take me under their wing!

aww mumofeight you sound really fed up. I check out the board most days but usually either watched or active conversations so I missed your post, sorry.

I am not a "perfect" mum but do live in swindon(Highworth). I have 4 DC ages 6, 8,10,11. What about you?

I dont usually get to meet ups as I work as a childminder and have to be at home for drop off times. Mid day as well as school/preschool times. Compounded but the fact I dont drive .

I am involved with 2 local schools on their PTA's and that and helping at a Guiding group about the extent of my Social life

(I've changed my name I used to be busybusymum)

Haven't been on this thread for ages. Boobsgonesouth, you must be steppy! Hows life out in the country?

Hi to firestone and mumofeight, mumofeight, honestly swindon is lovely, full of lovely mums and full of all sorts of toddler groups.

SAdly I'm back at work now so ds and I don't go to any together anymore

But if you need someone to talk to to, you can CAT me and we can have a chat and maybe arrange to meet up one afternoon.

Prmaholic, we are all ready for mile for maude, ds has been practising walking holding on to my hand - we might even make it as far as a quarter of a mile before he insists on being picked up!