where were you ten years ago?

[Yorkiegirl]

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Living in Edinburgh - has just moved in with boyfriend (now DH) in a flat just round the corner from where we live now. We'd both just graduated and we were working 100 hour weeks but enjoying earning. I was 24 and desperate to get married and start breeding!

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I was pg with dd1, working as a secretary and living quite a tame life compared to you lot, it seems!!

newlywed

you were married before lou?

Was 22. Had just done my PGCE, moved to London with first husband, and in the process of divorce. Having a great time with my new freedom though!

wow - 10yrs ago - I was starting my Scottish highers at school, had a boyfriend who was one an ex-houseparent at the boarindg house and getting drunk frequently.

5 months pg with dd2, 3 months into being 40, living in sin with dh (then dp), about to go on holiday to France with bump, dp and 4 year old grandson.

I was even old 10 years ago (but fertile)

i was just starting my gcse's at 15 and more importantly a size 6 never to be again

Sept 96: I was 29, living in a gorgeous flat near Lancaster Gate tube and the fountains in Hyde Park, had just left my long term live in boyf amd moved out of our flat in Chiswick and had started shagging a friend from work off and on. Was working in corporate job, reasonably well paid, went out a lot, v busy social life, smoked like a chimney, lots of admirers.

Got pregnant in Jan 07 by said friend from work (who is now very lovely ex dh) and the product of that, ds, is nearly 9 and asleep upstairs. I don't regret any of it, I can't believe it's been nearly 10 years really.

Great thread YG.

i was 27 just about to celebrate ds1 1st birthday, start a new job, buy our first house and struggling financially - ds1 is now in year 6 our lives have changed so much for the better. Its gone so quickly

Just starting my second year of teaching and going out with a couple of blokes called Colin and Eric (not simultaneously!) Had also just moved into my first flat and was VERY houseproud (how times have changed - my mugs even had set places in the cupboard. Now they're lucky if they make it back into the cupboard, as we tend to use them straight from the dishwasher!) Good times, though.

I was 25
married to husband no 1, had just moved to London and started a new job at a v hardcore investment bank
discovered a trance night at Fridge in Brixton and fried my brains at weekends
was about to start a fling with a colleague
i was such a slut i really was.

September 1996: aged 23.

I had left uni that summer, having gradutaed with a teaching degree. In September I moved in with my then boyfriend (now DH) to our first (rented) home, and I started my first teaching post. Had much less money and hardly ever managed to go out at that time, but had a great time together

This is a really interesting thread, good one

Anyway it is also pretty spookily timed too, cos 10 years ago TODAY dd was conceived!!!!
We'd been in our new flat (still here) 2 months, married 7 months, I was 27, and we'd just been to some very good friends' wedding. A drunken bonk later and dd was on the way

i was 24, newly qualified teacher, working in brighton- still am. living with dh- then dp. still am. god i'm boring.

spooky, hulababy! but note how much more cheerful you are!

Great 'thread' timing for the Anteaters; 33 Married 3 months. DW 3 months pregnant. Completed on our first (and current) house this week 10 years ago, a deralict farm, very Withnail! 10 years on..

I was 26, and my es was 3month old...and we lived in Bassigbourn at the time...

Very coincidental noonar. I'm not teaching naymore, but still living in same city - just opposite side.

what are you doing now??? have you seen my leaving teacher/ SAHM thread? fascinating stuff, so many of us!

sorry for hijack!

Oh the good old days.

10 Years ago i had just finished college and was working 5 hours a day as a nanny, 3 hours a day as a telephone operator and was earning about £400 a week! had a small flat and an excellent social life and a very nice boyfriend not to mention loads of mates.

I was 3 months in to motherhood. Still enjoying being a SAHM at that time and still in the money, having only given up full time work 6 months earlier. Dh, ds1 and I lived in Rugby.

We have moved several times since then and I have 3 other children now, and no money and hate being a SAHM, but otherwise, nothing essential has changed. How boring!