GLASGOW MUM'S..........

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Where are all the Glasgow mum's????

Hi Pagan, the other glasgow cake and coffee thread was for the meet up yesterday, although only 2 managed to make it. But hopefully more people will be able to make the one in the new year. Perhaps you would be able to join us - depending on when baby number 2 makes an apperance
Fimboclaus - sorry to hear you are missing Glasgow, do you ever get to come up for the odd visit? Do you still have family living up here?

Fimboclaus you should let us know if you are ever up tp visit friends or family and pehaps we could get something arranged.

FimboClaus - MuddaofSuburbia used to be like you - desparately homseick. She is now McMudda, having just moved back and is now living in rural bliss near Loch Lomond!

Now I really MUST go off and brave the Christmas lunch hour crowds!

Having this chat has made me even more . I live in Norwich which is miles from anywhere BUT the good news is we are finally getting a low cost airline at Norwich International Airport so flights will only be £50 all in (taxes and everything) to Glasgow and Edinburgh and prebooked seats not like Easyjet! So finally have a low cost way of getting home to elderly parents and may even swing an odd long weekend trip to Glasgow. I miss Rouken Glen (was there in the big freeze 94/95? when the waterfall froze), Glasgow Green, Peoples Palace, Cantina Del Rey, the vast amount of shops, the trains, I could go on raving about Glasgow all day long

I cant imagine not living near Glasgow, I'd miss it terribly!!!

Just thought I'd say hello. I used to live in Glasgow too. (Pollokshields - do I know you prettybird? I have a dd 4years. Did you go to any of the toddler groups around there?) We moved down south a bit over a year ago and I still miss the lovely accent! (I don't mean that sarcastically either!) I'm a bit jealous of you all, but not too much as I'm moving back to Australia in just over a month. I hope you can get together. I've been trying to organise a meet up here in Swindon and today is the second time we've had to cancel because everyone either couldn't make it at the last minute or didn't get back online to confirm they were coming... very annoying.

Xoz - I remember you said you used to live in Pollokshields - but no, I don't think you know me. I had ds at the Queen Mum's, and the closest I got to a "toddler" group was the b/f support group that the b/f counsellors ran at the hospital - and which I had to stop going to when I went back to work when ds was 4 months old. It would have beengood to have met you then though! Not that I felt that I had much time in those 4 months off - first of all getting used to ds (and he was a slooooow feeder, so it felt like he was latched on all the time), then trying to fit in the postnatal exercise classes, plus the b/f support group, then the baby swimming - and then it was Christmas! :)

But come to think of it, did you go to any of the postnatal exercise classes at the Palace of Art (or whatever the place is called which they sued while Bellahouston was out of commission)? I don't remember anyone with an Aussie accent - but postnatal hormonal brains are not the most reliable!

I do wish I had a few more friends locally - I've not really made many new friends beyond work colleagues since I moved back to Scotland - and that was 10 years ago!

Whereabouts in Oz are you from/going back to? My Aunt lives in Melbourne and dh is probably going to have to visit the wine areas in the next 18 months.

Well prettybird I probably didn't meet you then. I didn't move to Glasgow from Australia until dd1 was 9 months, so you would've been well back to work by then. We're actually coming up to visit for Christmas, only organised it last night and will be staying with friends in Mount Florida and Linlithgow. I'm really excited about it.
We're moving to a place called Newcastle which is about 2 hours north of Sydney, and our aim is to get ourselves a place in the nearby Hunter Valley (wine area!), but how long that will take I'm not sure. We still have a house in Sydney which we'll have to sell. My dh has family in Melbourne, and my family are all in Sydney.

xoz - glad you've got yourself sorted for Christmans - even if it is all very last minute!

Bet you won't miss the grey winter light when you go back home. The light (or lack of it) is particularly noticeable to us at the moment, as it is such a contrast to the brightness of SOuth Africa. (Is it really just 8 days since I was there?)

Dh will no doubt be out to Oz within the next 18 months as part of his studies for his Master of Wine. We know the South African wine industry very well - but we've never been to Oz (... and I suspect he'll end up going on his own ).

If you'd like to meet a fellow Mumsnetter while you're up over Christmans, CAT me. But I do realise that it gets very hectic when you are up visiting old haunts, added to all the Christams festivities. We hold an Open House - plenty of bubbly and nice nibbles - on Boxing Day (midday to midnight), if you fancy it.....

Thanks for the offer prettybird, but we're flying back down to Bristol on 26th in the am, as we have to be in London by that night. Sorry I can't make it. It sounds lovely. You guys do hospitality so well in Scotland. The only place I've ever been where it's been better was when we went to a wedding in Poland (another story altogether!!) Have a great Christmas though and sorry for hijacking this thread a bit, I didn't mean to

How about a meet up in Glasgow on Saturday 22 January. DH is going to be away on his wine course - so I know we won't be away skiining then.

It shouldn't be TOO crowded with the Post Christmans sales be then - but if you fancied a look around, then we could meet up in Princes Sqaures and let the kids run around the mosaic.

No-one interested then? Or are all the West/Central Scotland Mums hard at work or out Christmas shopping?