Northern Ireland anyone?

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Would anyone be interested in a Northern Ireland meet up?

Well done WKMS. First day is the worse...the scary thing is that you start to forget you were ever off after a very short time.

Good luck for the next few days....great to hear the boys got on so well at nursery. Wee stars!

congratulations mamamary

well done WKMS

I'm not sure about 10th will just see how my baby gets on in Nursery, (did I mention my baby starts nursey that week?)

ah that's great WKMS. it makes all the difference when you know they are settled. you can go to work and deal with your day rather than worry about them being upset.

ooh martha, my pfb is starting primary school aswell in sept, cannot believe we are at this stage. it seems only a few months ago he was toddling about in a nappy.

Morning all.

Anyone want to pop over to this thread with me and dissuade this northern English girl from attempting a Belfast accent in order to read a poem about The Troubles in a remembrance service?

::rolls eyes so hard they hurt::

lol @ Tee - my PhD is more or less in Irish studies and particularly contemporary NI stuff and you want to hear the kind of stuff that goes on at conferences!! Ah, I'm sure they mean well most of the time but it gives the Belfast contingent something to snort about into their free conference wine afterwards

good job WKMS! will have to get lots of tips from you when i go back to work :)

Marking my place as I lost you all....

Hope everyone's having a lovely weekend. We went to the zoo this morning....so NOT funny pushing a double buggy up that hill!!!

LOL Tee at your post above....takes all sorts I suppose...

Hell, I'm not even Northern Irish and I know its a bad idea.

Think of the great workout you had dingdong!! Did you see the baby meerkats?

Do we have a day? 10th September? Is that what was decided?

hi ladies.

have you all had a good weekend?

dingdong i ws considering putting our names down for a trip to the zoo with surestart but you have reminded me about the hill. not sure i want to now. was it worth it or not?

tee i can do 10th.

boo, it was just ok....I think on a good day I'd go again as I do like to support it and the kids enjoy it but I wouldn't be hiking up the hill as there aren't really that many good animals up there...there is enough to enjoy on the lower levels and the picnic/play area is lovely.

When's the surestart day? Maybe we should consider doing something like that for a meet up? They do parent and toddler special days at the Zoo throughout the year.

10th good for us btw...but probably said that before?!

Have a good Monday....tee, keep those pants on!

PS...forgot to say tee the baby meerkats were GORGEOUS! Definitely a highlight!

i think they are doing it on the 18th of august. have to check that though because my friend was gabbing on about some other thing she was going to so i might have picked up her date instead of teh zoo date.

Hi!

Tee I followed your link to that accent thread. I also rolled my eyes.

10th September? Is that the next meet-up day? Not sure I can go, will have to check and will get back to you all.

Here, just a bit of a random Q: does anyone here live in Whitehead/ has ever lived in Whitehead? For some reason DH and I have fallen in love with it and are thinking of making a move there in the next few years! Just looking for a bit of native opinion before we start properly looking at houses etc.

By the way, dingdong I went to the zoo yesterday with DS and my 10-year-old cousin who insisted on pushing the buggy the whole way I felt like reaching in and lifting the baby meerkats! Soooo cute! I love the zoo.

Yes, we are talking about 10th September.

I finally had to hide that thread, TLC, because the woman was being such an idiot. When every NI native tells you its a bad idea? Don't do it!

Perhaps Tee we could invite that English lady to our next meet up and give her a vocal coaching lesson

Not you, of course, cuz you're American, but you can watch and laugh

I've lived here for nearly 7 years and I would never attempt an NI accent! Or a Belfast one!

I was in California last summer for all of about 10 minutes before I adopted a horrible phony Americana accent so everyone could understand me lol

TLC - was working in Whitehead today and it was lovely. Can totally understand why you've fallen in love with it :)
Can we have a meet-up there soon??
Totally agree about that accent thread. Some people just don't want to listen....

Bishoplyn we could do a Whitehead meet-up with a theme of 'find TLC a house'

Just out of being v nosey, what sort of work were you doing there? Not an estate agent by any chance?

Darnit, lost the thread again...

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hello all, i have been a bit neglectful of this thread lately, sorry about that.

so have we any definite meeting place for the 10th?

where is whitehead? don't think i know it.

Hey booyhoo, how are you? Saw your kick me in the ass thread, I hope you're doing better now!

I think we agreed soft play at Connswater, yes?

10th sept can't wait

i will have no babies will they let me in??

TLC - wash your mouth out! Estate Agent!?! I couldn't sell snow to the Eskimos.
I work in the Health Service and was visiting a few folks who live there.
Booyhoo - Whitehead is a village on the Antrim coast between Carrickfergus and Larne.
In semi-seriousness, the Railway Preservation Society is based there. We could go on a steam train ride, have lunch and find TLC a house???

Bishoplyn - no one else interested in steam trains. You are a geek.

ooh, we have a steam train here in downpatrick. i keep promising to take ds on it. must get round to that.

Ok so softplay at connswater. what time? or has that yet to be agreed?