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Febbers visit Egg! (Hants)

58 replies

Gill79 · 25/06/2008 23:25

Right. If the lady in question does not mind an invasion let's have a look at paying her a visit.

Thursdays are the best day since her DS1 is in nursery.

Train from Waterloo takes 55 mins. I would suggest we leave after 10 (after peak fares if poss) and avoiding rush hour in London.

Egg - suggested dates are:

July 17th
July 24th
July 31st
August 7th

Let us know if any of those are good or bad and then let's see who can make what dates.

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tyaca · 25/06/2008 23:52

this is pitiful, i can do all of 'em .

Egg · 26/06/2008 10:19

Bloody hell. Was going to say I can do all the dates but find I am actually busy on THREE of them (I am never busy!).

17th is no good as DS1 has sports day [ahhh how cute emoticon]

24th is no good as my sis is coming to stay

31st is my bday, so I imagine my parents will pop down then, but will check as if not would be lovely to meet up on my bday as otherwise I will be all alone.

7 August is fine though (but seems ages away)

Would be soooo nice to see you both, and anyone else that can make it.

Now, would you prefer to come to the house, so therefore we have everything on hand (nappies, wipes, spare clothes, changing things, milk, pureed cack, cots blaa blaa blaa) or would you prefer to meet at a park somewhere? I guess it depends on weather, so we can decide nearer the time. If it is peeing down you may as well come here than us all get drenched, but if sunny might be nice to go to the park for a picnic?

tyaca · 26/06/2008 11:18

misread your things-at-house lists and saw "pureed crack" . shall we say 7th but keep an open mind about the 31st, just in case. strong dd - she's just manged to pull her monkey off playmobile. seems to have shattered her world-view tho' - she's not happy about it. off i go

Egg · 26/06/2008 11:44

Mmmm yes, pureed crack sounds great right now

7th will go in the diary. My mum is coming to stay tonight so will ask her at lunch what her plans are.

I will be THIRTY THREEEEEEEEEEEEE.

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Gill79 · 26/06/2008 19:13

Cool - both 7th and 31st now in my diary depending on your plans. For birthday or post birthday celebrations! We shall have to have a glass of bubbly to mark the occasion.

I'm pretty flexible re where we meet - can carry everything we need so happy to meet out in the park or something. What about you Tyaca? Basically as far as I'm concerned whatever is easiest for Egg. The only constraint is I will just have Maclaren with me so no car seat, so will need to be somewhere reasonable walking distance or doable by bus from the station.

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tyaca · 26/06/2008 19:50

park would be lovely - i too am fairly portable. dd on the other hand had been getting increasingly mardy on extended trips in baby bjorn .... yup, anywhere near station would be good. which station btw?

sarahmikeharryandrosie · 26/06/2008 21:51

i would love to come ladies but i am in the midlands ===

Egg · 27/06/2008 15:20

Come on Sarah, it's not faaaaar .

Station is Winchester. My house is 10 min walk from station, or nice park also about 10 mins walk from station. Easy walk, bit of a hill back to station but fine unless you have a heavy double buggy or are heavily pregnant (or so I found...).

I think we should plan to meet in park and have a nice picnic (and champagne...), and if it pees down we can come here instead with our picnic food.

Dropdeadfred · 27/06/2008 15:26

Egg - this is your stalker you have been missed on The Z thread....

Egg · 27/06/2008 15:40

Hello Fred, I have been over now, I popped here first as knew this msg would be a quickie!!!

Bessie123 · 28/06/2008 06:27

Would like to come, if that's ok - what day is 7 August?

Egg · 28/06/2008 08:59

Hello Bessie of course you can come! Everyone is welcome, you are all so lovely for even considering coming down to see us.

7 August is a Thursday. Hope it's a good day for you to visit too! There are lots of nice green bits we can go and picnic at.

Got to jump in bath while DTs are actually both asleep at same time.

Bessie123 · 30/06/2008 18:30

Oh, dd has baby swimming on thursdays, so I won't be able to come . I can only really do Tuesdays. Hope you all have fun. x

Egg · 03/07/2008 16:12

Oh . I can do Tuesdays but only if you all came here as really don't think I can go out for any length of time with all three DC, and tbh I think poor DS1 would not be happy with even MORE babies than his own!

beansprout · 05/07/2008 21:32

(whispers) Can I come too?!

Egg · 06/07/2008 14:00

YAY Beany I would love it if you could come too . The more the merrier in my opinion!

tyaca · 06/07/2008 23:07

oh hurrah! bean too! this is v exciting. have my route from deepest darkest croydon to waterloo already planned. hoping the winchester bit takes care of itself.
bessie - would us wetting our babies heads woth bubbly work in leiu of a daisy's weekly swim?? c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon ...

Egg · 07/07/2008 10:19

We have lots of rivers here Bessie . Lots of swimming opportunities!

I know how you feel though, I hated missing DS1's swimming as it seemed to set him back a bit if he went 2 weeks without a swim (now he rarely goes and does not like to go underwater etc, when he used to love it).

So we have ME, Gill, Tyaca, Beany and prob not Bessie...

I think Ginger is nearish to here, can try to entice her over to this thread as she will have stopped work by then, and her older DDs are self sufficient, ie she wont have to worry about bringing them etc.

gingermumi · 07/07/2008 11:53

Would love to come! dd1 lives with boyfriend now (student accomodation was tooooo scuzy for her !) and is on work placement then anyway and dd2 is definitely self suffiecient.

It will be so cool to put put faces to names! Winchester is about 40 mins drive for me, not a problem - i used to go there twice a week for uni!

Is it 7th august?

Egg · 07/07/2008 11:57

7th August looks the winner at the mo. Glad you can come too! If it is easier you can drive to my house to park car, although might be easier to park in town if we do go for a picnic type thing. Will work it out nearer the time.

Hurrah!

Egg · 07/07/2008 12:01

Tyaca, it might be easier for you to get train from Croydon to Clapham Junction and jump on a train there. It would mean you might not be on same train as the others as not all trains from Waterloo to Winchester stop (some are fast and Winchester is first stop, some stop at Clapham and something like Basingstoke as well).

Worth checking out anyway.

tyaca · 07/07/2008 16:26

ty for transport tip off. will check out the trains and if the slower train not too much slower, may see if i can coerce others into getting same train as me.

gingermumi · 07/07/2008 17:22

ty- if you book in advance it's often cheaper, found this out when dd2 wanted to go to Bath Chrimbo Market with boyfriend- was about £10.00 each cheaper, depends when you book and the availability of the tickets.

tyaca · 07/07/2008 18:34

oooh, gill FYI the quickest train is 57min and doesnt stop at clapham junction, but the second quickest only takes 3min more and does stop at clapham. god, you prob SO dont care but am quite excited .

beansprout · 08/07/2008 13:11

If it's August, I won't have any childcare for ds1 so he would need to come too. Will there be any other older children there?