April 08 post-natal London meet up thread

[Scampmum]

OK - any ideas about when and where?

Is anyone else bringing a toddler?

Hi, enjoy the meet-up tomorrow, I can't make it but will definitely come to the next one if you do it again.

I think Molly is away.

oh just noticed - Scamp, Canteen is on the other side of the festival hall from the river - if you're coming from Waterloo, you'll see it as you approach the South Bank. It's got lots of tables set out outside with a sort of fence around it.

Oh, OK! Yes, sorry, head on wrong.

I hope it is all going well and that another one will be organised as I very clearly missed this one! Forgot and I had too much on today anyway! REALLY want to meet you lovely ladies though - so I hope another one gets planned!

I had a lovely time, even if I didn't get a chance to give anyone other than DD1 any attention (even when I barricaded her into the highchair), and when I did it was always precisely when the building site started making a Loud Noise. With any luck I'll be able to be slightly more engaged next time!

Great to meet you all, sorry for abrupt departure, hope you all got home OK. Your babies are all gorgeous and all you first-timers seem ten times more relaxed than I was two years ago.

Sorry for leaving a dirty nappy on the table!

We have £13.50 in the kitty (from various people overpaying, but too hsrd to work out who or organise change) to go towards the next one, so we'll definitely be planning another.

Canteen worked out well as a venue too, I thought. I'd never even noticed it was there before but they do a mean Eggs Benedict (and my eating-one-handed skills were up to the challenge). I don't know if we want to stick with it for the next one or ring the changes a bit?

It's good to be able to put names to faces at last (of mums and your remarkably gorgeous babies).

It was great meeting you all! We should definitely arrange another meet-up soon (even though LadyBee & I had a strange episode of our train "disappearing" off the board without ever arriving... It might also be that we just started chatting too much. )

Scampmum, slightly disappointed that I never got to hear the Bear song! Really looked forward to that

£13.50 - if we choose our venue carefully that could get us a bottle of house wine?

oo-er! I wouldn't ay no to a splash of wine! Wow, it's been nearly a year since I have been 'merry'! How horribly civilised.

Requirements for next meetup: wine < £13.50

Then the minor details of location & food! It'll prob take me a sniff to be 'merry' now!

Well then, a park near a supermarket and we could get a box of wine!

[steadying myself emoticon]

for some reason I now have visions of a group of slightly squiffy mummies hanging around outside our local co-op, passing a box of wine and scaring the local 11 boys off their patch.

ha ha ha!

Hello! I'm back!!! So the London meet-up happened!!! And you're all still talking so it couldn't have been that bad When is the next one. I'm away a lot over the summer so may not be here but your never know...

tee hee LadyBee! That would be a sight! I'm really looking forward to there being a next one so I can meet you all!

what about the 16th, 17th, 18th July like Sagitta suggested?

Afternoon/lunchtime of 16th or 17th or any time on the 18th would work for me

Actually, could do morning of the 16th at a push.

I could do morning of 16th or any time 17th or 18th.

Afternoon of 17th would be good for me, or maybe afternoon of 16th. (I will have both dds with me - maybe my dd1 can play quietly and nicely with your dd1, while we drink, Scamp!)

I'll set this out in the way they do for the West/SW London meets; anyone interested, cut-and-paste, adding yourself to the dates/times you could make...

16 July am PortAndLemon Sal22 16 July pm PortAndLemon sagitta 17 July am Sal22 17 July pm PortAndLemon Sal22 sagitta 18 July am PortAndLemon Sal22 18 July pm
PortAndLemon
Sal22

Bother.

16 July amPortAndLemon Sal22 16* July pm PortAndLemon sagitta 17 July am Sal22 17 July pm PortAndLemon Sal22 sagitta 18 July am PortAndLemon Sal22 18 July pm
PortAndLemon
Sal22

Oh poo. Still, you can work out how the formatting was supposed to go...

very impressive, Pal.

Pm of 17th looking good so far...